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Commercial Carrier JournalSpring Symposium
May 19, 2015
FMCSA Regulatory Update
Jack Van SteenburgAssistant Administrator And Chief Safety Officer
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Our MissionPlacing safety as
our highest priority:Prevent crashes, injuries, and
fatalities involving CMV transportation through education, innovation,
regulation, enforcement, financial assistance,
partnerships, andfull accountability
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The Problem – Exploring Facts
Large trucks and buses represent:
• 4.5% of the registered vehicles in U.S.
• 10% of the vehicle miles traveled
• 11.8% of the crashes
• 12.1% of the traffic fatalities
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Large Truck and Bus Crash Data
In 2013, 3,806 crashes involving a large truck or bus claimed 4,251 lives lost
739 of those lives lost were large truck or bus occupants
3,512 of those lives lost were occupants of either a passenger vehicle, rider of a motorcycle or a bicycle or were a pedestrian
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CSA Safety Benefits• Identifies high risk carriers for intervention.• SMS BASIC effectively identifies carriers
more likely to be involved in crashes.• Assesses nearly 200,000 carriers that
account for 92% of reportable crashes, and 80% of CMVs.
• Reaches more carriers, earlier; 86,000 warning letters sent since CSA rollout.
• Annual roadside inspection violation rates have dropped 15% since CSA rollout.
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SMS Display Page
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CSA Future Enhancements
• HM BASIC• Exposure• Driver Fitness Threshold• Unsafe Driving – OOS operations• Crash Weighting
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Safety Fitness Determination
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• Working to publish NPRM. • Propose expanding use of roadside
inspection data -- in addition to findings from investigations – to determine a safety fitness rating.
• Assess the safety fitness of a larger number of motor carriers on a monthly basis.
• Absolute score vs. relative score.• Assures an objective adjudication process.
Hours of Service• A naturalistic study comparing impacts of
restart provisions before and after July 1, 2013.
• Drivers from fleets of all sizes, operations, and industry sectors.
• Led by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and leading experts on fatigue.
• OIG oversight and independent peer review.
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Electronic Logging Devices
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Final Rule to be published in 2015. Benefits include: • Cut paperwork and save money• Easier to review driver hours-of-service
(HOS) records• Protect drivers from harassment • By improving hours of service compliance,
ELDs are estimated to prevent about 20 fatalities and over 400 injuries each year.
Coercion Rule
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Working to publish a Coercion Final Rule later this year. • Prohibit carriers, shippers, receivers and
transportation intermediaries from pressuring drivers into violating FMCSA regulations.
• Includes procedures for reporting incidents of coercion.
• Sets rules of practice FMCSA to handle allegations.
Other Regulatory Matters
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• Entry Level Driver Training.• Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse.• National Registry of Certified Medical
Examiners• Financial Responsibility
Thinking Outside the Box
• Driver Recognition– ATA has helped champion this initiative– The poster will hang at USDOT HQ.
• Beyond Compliance– What are the technologies?– What are the incentives to carriers?– How to monitor compliance?
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Our Vision
Save lives by striving toward a
crash-free and fully accountable
CMV transportation life-cycle
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