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ATRI
ISSUES FINAL REQUEST FOR HOURS-OF-SERVICE DATA
Alexandria, Va. --
The American Transportation Research Institute announced today its
final request for motor carrier safety data to measure the effects
of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s
hours-of-service provision that substantially altered the sleeper
berth exception affecting drivers’ ability to split sleeper berth
time.
ATRI began collecting quarterly
data a year ago in an effort to track changes in driver safety
performance and measure it against the overall safety impacts of the
2004 hours-of-service rules, which included a more flexible sleeper
berth provision. This data collection is for carrier safety data
from the fourth quarter of 2006.
ATRI’s study represents the second phase of data
collection as part of its continuing research to measure the safety
impacts of the hours-of-service rules changes. Information required
includes collision and driver injury data covering the period October 1 through December 31, 2006. ATRI requests
that motor carriers submit data no later than January 26, 2007.
Carriers interested in providing data can contact Brian Smith, ATRI
Research Associate, at (770) 432-0628 or at
bsmith@trucking.org.
“The response to our quarterly data collections has
been positive and we are eager to analyze the data to identify
safety trends,” said Rebecca Brewster, ATRI president. “With a
similar response to this fourth quarter data collection, we hope to
have preliminary results in February.”
Last year ATRI published the findings from its first
hours-of-service study, “Safety Impacts of the New Hours of
Service,” analyzing the safety effects of the 2004 rules. The
study compared the data with previous hours-of-service rules that
had governed driver health, safety and carrier productivity for
decades. This research found that the 2004 driver work and rest
rules generated significant improvements in driver safety
performance.
http://www.atri-online.org/research/results/safetyandhumanfactors.htm.
ATRI is the trucking industry’s 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical
research relating to freight transportation’s essential role in
maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.
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