FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Carrier safety by state — report

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration registers every motor carrier that operates a commercial vehicle on the nation's roads, and its Safety Measurement System files each carrier's road record under seven categories. What is sold here is one state of that register published as a dated document: the carriers based in the state, the inspections recorded against them, the violations those inspections found, the crashes on file, and the state's standing in each category against every other state, each figure carrying the filing it came from.

• 2,096,180carriers on the register

What you get

• Every motor carrier the census registers in the state, with its fleet size band
• The inspections recorded against the state's carriers, and how many ended in an out-of-service order
• Violations recorded under each of the seven safety categories, with the state's rank against the others
• Reportable crashes on file, including those that involved a fatality
• The state's carrier base by the work the carriers do and the towns they are based in
• A dated cover page and a source line for every figure, ready to file or cite

Who buys it

Buyers are the people who have to put a carrier's safety record in front of someone else: shippers and brokers qualifying a carrier before they put freight on it, insurers and underwriters weighing exposure, transport counsel answering a claim, safety officers benchmarking a fleet against its home state, and journalists and researchers working from the register itself.

Questions

What is in the document?

It holds the register's own record for one state: the motor carriers based there, the inspections recorded against them, the violations found under each safety category, the reportable crashes on file, and where the state's figures sit against the other states. Every figure travels with the filing it came from.

Is it dated?

Yes. The document reflects the register as it stands on the day it is bought and is dated that day, so a reader can tell exactly which version of the register it reflects. The date appears on the cover.

Can I file it or hand it to a regulator?

That is what it is for. It is a dated, sourced record of one state's carriers, in a form a board, a lender, a regulator or a court can read and keep. Nothing in it is a legal opinion about any carrier.

Does it cover carriers based outside the state?

It covers the carriers the census registers as based in the state, with each carrier's fleet size band shown as the register shows it. Inspections and crashes are shown as the register files them, so the document reads the way the register reads.