Cargo Tank Rollovers: Keep Load on the Road

What causes cargo tank rollovers and how can they be prevented? To prevent cargo tank rollovers, it’s important to understand the reasons they occur. This means dispelling some common misconceptions about why they happen.

SmartPark: Real-Time Parking Availability

Between 2007 and 2009, FMCSA awarded two contracts for field operational tests (FOTs) of two separate technologies: video imaging (with trip-line algorithm) and magnetometry (with threshold algorithm). Test results showed that video imaging did not meet the performance requirements at nighttime...

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Onboard Safety Systems

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) tasked Virginia Technical Transportation Institute (VTTI) to study the effectiveness of three OBSSs (i.e., FCW, LDW, and RSC) by analyzing crash data from more than 14 truck fleets that traveled more than 13 billion miles and...

Study of the Impact of a Telematics System on Safe and Fuel-efficient Driving in Trucks

A Baltimore-based motor carrier fleet volunteered 46 new Volvo trucks, each equipped with Volvo Link and Green Roads Technology, for the FOT. Volvo Link Technology gathered "fuel economy" data. Green Roads Technology gathered "safety" data (data on when and where hard braking, sudden...

Division C, Title II - Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 2012

Division C, Title III - Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2012

Research Methodologies and Statistical Approaches to Understanding Driver Fatigue Factors in Motor Carrier Safety and Driver Health

Bous voyagez entre les Etats-Unis et le Canada? Ce qu’il faut savoir avant de partir…

Cette brochure d'information fournit des ressources pour les conducteurs qui voyagent transfrontalière entre les États-Unis et au Canada

How to Comply with Federal Hazardous Materials Regulations

The Secretary of the Department of Transportation receives the authority to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials from the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA), as amended and codified in 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq. The Secretary is authorized to issue regulations to implement...

Field Operational Test Overview

There are nearly 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials on U.S. highways each day. Safeguarding these shipments from possible terrorist use as weapons of mass destruction is the focus of the U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored Hazardous Materials Safety and Security Operational...