News from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA): “Only 1.6 percent of trucks involved in non-fatal crashes were carrying hazardous materials in 2006,” according to the Statistic of the Day posted July 6 on the FMCSA web site.
The Analysis and Information Online web site posts several statistics daily related to trucking and includes information such as SafeStat, an automated, data-driven analysis system designed by FMCSA. SafeStat combines current and historical carrier-based safety performance information to measure the relative (peer-to-peer) safety fitness of interstate commercial motor carriers and intrastate commercial motor carriers that transport hazardous materials.
The site also includes crash statistics, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) safety stats, and FMCSA tools for motor carriers.