Motor carrier safety : commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration--Databases.

United States.

United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Commercial vehicles--Safety measures--Government policy--United States.

Commercial vehicles.

Trucks--Safety measures--Government policy--United States.

Trucks.

Buses--Safety measures--Government policy--United States.

Buses.

Genre:

databases.

Databases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 37 pages) : illustrations, map

Other Title:

Commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]

Summary:

To reduce the number of crashes involving commercial motor carriers, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) within the Department of Transportation orders unsafe carriers out of service. To help keep these carriers off the road, FMCSA's voluntary Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) grant program, a small program funded at 5 million dollars per year, helps states establish information systems connections between state vehicle registration and FMCSA's safety databases. These connections provide states with upto- date information on carriers' safety status when carriers try to register or renew registrations with the state. For states to deny, suspend, or revoke registrations to out-of-service carriers, states must pass legislation enabling them to do so. As directed by a congressional committee, GAO examined (1) PRISM's effectiveness and (2) the potential to fully implement the program nationally. GAO reviewed FMCSA data and discussed PRISM with a wide variety of federal, state, industry, and safety stakeholders.

Contents:

Background

PRISM has helped keep unsafe carriers from registering, but its impact on safety is hard to measure

National PRISM implementation may not occur for years if PRISM is maintained as a voluntary program

Conclusions.

Notes:

Title from title screen (GAO, viewed July 27, 2009).

"May 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-09-495."

OCLC:

430065053