2015 HDT Fact Book: Safety
According to the National Private Truck Council, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration does not report an industry average number of crashes for all motor carriers.
Federal law prohibits the use of texting or handheld cell phones while driving for all interstate commercial motor vehicle drivers and for all hazmat drivers.
An ongoing concern, according to reported statistics, 1.3 percent of all vehicle crashes involved drivers using a cell phone.
ear after year, Tuesday remains the most popular day of the week for an accident to occur at 18.1%, followed by Mondays at 17.5%.
One complaint about the Compliance, Safety, Accountability enforcement system is that carriers operating in some states have a disadvantage because of stricter CMV enforcement.
ycle is a safety management model developed by the agency to help motor carriers identify weaknesses that contributed to a specific violation during a roadside inspection or an audit of their records.
The majority of accidents reported by fleet drivers (light-, medium- and heavy-duty) in 2014 were “damage while parked”/other party (11.9%), up from 11.7% in 2013.
At 79.2% of incidents in 2014, clear days remain the most common day for an accident to occur, which is up 2.6% over 2013.