Skip NavigationDepartment of Transportation Logo  U.S. Department of Transportation Keyword Links | Contact Us | Español

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Home Rules & Regulations Registration & Licensing Forms Safety & Security Facts & Research About FMCSA
  Home > Analysis Division
Overview
Statistics & Facts
Safety Progress Report
Publications & Reports
Events Calendar
Webinars
Future Webinars
Past Webinars
Safety Technologies
Product Guides
Roadside Technology Corridor
CVISN
PRISM
About ART
Analysis Division
Research Division
Technology Division
Contact ART
 
  
Esta página está solamente disponible en inglés

Analysis Division

  Print this page Print    
Civil Penalties Effectiveness Study
The original Civil Penalties Effectiveness Study was completed in December 2004 and the results documented in a report to Congress. Section 222d of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 required the Secretary of Transportation to “conduct a study of the effectiveness of the revised civil penalties established in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21).” The study examined the impact of the newly revised penalty schedule on motor carrier behavior in terms of the number and types of offenses found during the compliance review process, as well the dollar amount of the penalties assessed and the timeliness of payments associated with these penalties.

Because only limited data were available at the time the original study was performed, FMCSA planned at that time to repeat some of the analyses at a later date after more data became available. This updated study addresses this issue by repeating many of the original analyses, and using more years of data in order to check the validity of the original results.


Go To Top of Page