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The Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) is a new, national-level program designed to offer motor carriers and commercial drivers electronic access to drivers’ records from the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). A PSP record contains a driver’s crash and inspection history to help motor carriers...
The Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) and Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) programs are two FMCSA initiatives designed to improve commercial vehicle safety through the use of advanced technologies and up-to-date safety and credentialing data. The two...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of driver distraction in commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operations. To accomplish this, data from two large-scale naturalistic studies were combined creating a data set that included over 200 CMV drivers and seven trucking fleets operating at 16 locations,...
The mission of FMCSA’s technology program is to adopt, develop, test and deploy simple and advanced integrated information technology solutions and innovative on-board commercial vehicle, driver, and roadside technologies. In this webinar, Acting Technology Division Chief Michael Johnsen and members of the...
FMCSA's Research Division helps FMCSA to reduce large truck and bus crashes, injuries, and fatalities through a program that contributes to a safe and secure commercial transportation system. This is accomplished by expanding the knowledge and portfolio of deployable technologies and innovations through systematic...
This webinar will feature an update on the FMSCA Analysis Division, which provides the transportation industry and the public with analytical reports on trends, costs, and fatalities and injuries in large truck and bus crashes. The Division also monitors data quality to ensure an accurate measurement of safety...
Truck and bus crash trends over the past 10 years indicate that fatalities in large truck crashes have consistently declined during this period despite an increase of the number of large trucks on our Nation’s highways. Speaker Dr. Ralph Craft has managed the Large Truck Crash Causation Study since its beginning in...
FMCSA issued a grant to fund the development of a driving track known as a skid pad at the Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) North Lewiston Training Facility in Idaho. The recently-completed skid pad—a paved surface for exercising driving maneuvers involving skidding, jack knifing, and other forms of loss of control...
FMCSA has carefully tracked the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems & Networks (CVISN) program in all States and has learned about the benefits of CVISN e-credentialing and state-based e-screening for both States and motor carriers. This webinar will address how States can reach out to and...
Funding for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Safety Data Improvement Program is available to help States improve the accuracy, timeliness, and quality of their traffic safety records, with an emphasis on improving large truck and bus data reported to FMCSA. High-quality, timely data in each of...