The Future of Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

The Future of Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981365418

The future of commercial motor vehicle safety : technology, safety initiatives, and the role of Federal regulation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 29, 2015.

The Future of Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

The Future of Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976547911

The future of commercial motor vehicle safety : technology, safety initiatives, and the role of Federal regulation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 29, 2015.

The Role of Safety Culture in Preventing Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes

The Role of Safety Culture in Preventing Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes
Author: Jeffrey Short
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2007
Genre: Bus lines
ISBN: 0309098912

TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 14: The Role of Safety Culture in Preventing Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes explores practices on developing and enhancing a culture of safety among commercial motor vehicle drivers. The report also examines suggested steps for increasing a safety culture through a series of best practices.

Motor Carrier Safety

Motor Carrier Safety
Author: Gregory D. Kutz
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2009-12
Genre:
ISBN: 1437919979

In 2008, the Fed. Motor Carrier Safety Admin. (FMCSA) reports that there were about 300 fatalities from bus crashes in the U.S. Although bus crashes are relatively rare, they are particularly deadly since many individuals may be involved. FMCSA tries to identify unsafe motor coach carriers and take them off the road. This report determines: (1) the number of motor coach carriers registered with FMCSA as new entrants in FY 2007 and 2008 that are substantially related to or in essence the same carriers the agency previously ordered out of service; and (2) what tools FMCSA uses to identify reincarnated carriers. The report analyzed FMCSA data to find matches on key fields (e.g., ownership, phone numbers, etc.). Charts and tables.

Truck Safety

Truck Safety
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2006
Genre: Traffic safety
ISBN:

Weather and Climate Impacts on Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

Weather and Climate Impacts on Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Author: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2015-02-23
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781508593836

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has an interest in how adverse weather may influence trucking industry practices, and what climate change might mean for future FMCSA efforts to reduce weather-related crashes. Weather conditions influence commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operations and driver safety through wet pavement, impaired visibility, heavy precipitation, frozen precipitation, flooding, high winds, extremes of temperature, and other factors. Climate variability and climate change may also increase these exposures by affecting the distribution, frequency, or intensity of those weather events. Regional, State, and/or local impacts projected by climate change studies may have future implications for CMV safety. Should climate change result in more frequent or intense storms affecting CMVs, the historic decline in weather-related crashes may level off. This could pose challenges to FMCSA's primary mission, and the agency may need to explore different strategies for reducing weather-related crashes, such as education and training programs or technologies that could alert drivers of adverse weather conditions. The purpose of this report is to provide the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with an analysis on how existing weather conditions may affect the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) on our Nation's highways. Further, it also looks at the general impacts projected by climate change studies and hypothesizes how possible changes in weather patterns and extreme storms could affect CMV operations in the future. This includes climate changes that increase the potential of weather-related CMV crashes and those that may impact trucking industry practices to require a response in FMCSA regulatory enforcement.