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Civil Fines and Motor Carrier Safety

.auto-style1 { text-align: center; } Goal: To assess the effectiveness of existing settlement approaches and to identify which approaches are most likely to change/improve non-compliant motor carrier and driver behaviors. Background: FMCSA has identified numerous questions related to...

The Impact of Vehicle Maintenance on Safety

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Project Goal:

The goals of this study are to: (1) understand the impact of maintenance on safety-based crashes; (2) develop an operational definition of systematic maintenance; (3) evaluate the effect of current...

FAST Act: Beyond Compliance and Safety and Enforcement Impacts

 

 

Project Goal:

The goal of this project is to determine a potential program to provide carriers with credit for implementing safety programs above and beyond minimum safety compliance, as well as to study the safety and enforcement impacts of changes...

Examining FMCSA Vision Standard for CMV Drivers and Waiver Program

.auto-style1 { text-align: center; } Goal:To re-examine the vision standard for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and evaluate the efficacy of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s vision waiver program.Background:Visual inputs are essential for driving a CMV. It is difficult...