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Prepared by:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration & ICF Consulting, Inc.
August 15, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary | PDF | - | HTML |
1. Background | PDF | - | HTML |
2. Profile of the Affected Industry | PDF | - | HTML |
3. Assessment of Impacts on Operations | PDF | - | HTML |
4. Cost of Changes in Operations | PDF | - | HTML |
5. Analysis of Changes in Crashes | PDF | - | HTML |
6. Modeling Results | PDF | - | HTML |
7. Financial Impacts to Small Carriers | PDF | - | HTML |
Appendix (I) Industry Data | PDF | - | HTML |
Appendix (II) Details of Modelling of Carrier Operations | PDF | - | HTML |
Appendix (III) Review of Safety Literature | PDF | - | HTML |
Appendix (IV) Analysis of Exemptions for Trucks of 10,000 to 26,000 Pounds | PDF | - | HTML |
List of acronyms
| ATA | - |
American Trucking Associations |
| BEA | - |
Bureau of Economic Affairs |
| CMV |
- | Commercial Motor Vehicle |
| DFACS |
- | Driver Fatigue, Alertness, and Countermeasures Study |
| DOT |
- | Department of Transportation |
| ES |
- | Executive Summary |
| FARS |
- | Fatality Analysis Reporting System |
| FMCSA |
- | Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration |
| GDP |
- | Gross Domestic Product |
| GES |
- | General Estimates System |
| HOS |
- | Hours of Service |
| IIHS |
- | Insurance Institute for Highway Safety |
| LCM |
- | Logistics Cost Model |
| LH |
- | Long-Haul |
| LTL |
- | Less-than-Truckload |
| MCMIS |
- | Motor Carrier Management Information System |
| NAICS |
- | North American Industrial Classification System |
| NHS Act |
- | National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 |
| NHTSA |
- | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| NPRM |
- | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| OOIDA |
- | Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association |
| OTR |
- | Over the Road |
| PVT |
- | Psychological Vigilance Task |
| RIA |
- | Regulatory Impact Analysis |
| SBA |
- | Small Business Administration |
| SH |
- | Short-Haul |
| SPM |
- | Sleep Performance Model |
| TL |
- | Truckload |
| TOT |
- | Time on Task |
| UMTIP |
- | University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program |
| UPS |
- | United Parcel Service |
| VIUS |
- | Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey |
| VMT |
- | Vehicle Miles Traveled |
| VPI |
- | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
| WRAIR |
- | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research |
| WRAIR-SPM |
- | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - Sleep Performance Model |
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