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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0167]
RIN 2126–AB20
Electronic Logging Devices and Hours
of Service Supporting Documents;
Evaluating the Potential Safety
Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service
Recorders
ACTION:
Notice of availability of research
report.
The Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA)
announces the availability of a new final
report, ‘‘Evaluating the Potential Safety
Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service
Recorders.’’ The study quantitatively
evaluated whether trucks equipped with
Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders
(EHSRs) have a lower (or higher) crash
and hours-of-service (HOS) violation
rate than those without EHSRs. The
safety benefits of EHSRs were
quantitatively evaluated by comparing
the crash risk for two exposure groups
(i.e., EHSRs were considered to improve
safety if the trucks with EHSRs showed
a lower crash risk than trucks without
EHSRs). For this project, EHSRs were
defined as any device that electronically
records drivers’ HOS. The study is an
effort to further quantify the safety
benefits of electronic logging devices
(ELDs) and provides results that are
consistent with the Agency’s estimates
of safety benefits of an ELD mandate, as
proposed on March 28, 2014. A copy of
the report has been placed in the docket
referenced at the beginning of this
notice.
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SUMMARY:
You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA–
ADDRESSES:
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2010–0167 using any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. Monday through Friday, except
Federal Holidays.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received without change to
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to www.regulations.gov at
any time or visit Room W12–140 on the
ground level of the West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The on-line Federal document
management system is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you want acknowledgment that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT’s Privacy Act
Statement for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit https://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8785.pdf.
For
information concerning this study,
please contact Mr. Albert Alvarez,
Research Division of the Office of
Analysis, Research, and Technology,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001 or by telephone at 202–385–2377.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
FMCSA encourages you to participate
by submitting comments and related
materials.
Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please
include the docket number for this
notice (FMCSA–2010–0167), indicate
the specific section of this document to
which each comment applies, and
provide a reason for each suggestion or
recommendation. You may submit your
comments and material online or by fax,
mail, or hand delivery, but please use
only one of these means. FMCSA
recommends that you include your
name and a mailing address, an email
address, or a phone number in the body
of your document so the Agency can
contact you if it has questions regarding
your submission.
To submit your comment online, go to
https://www.regulations.gov and put the
docket number, ‘‘FMCSA–2010–0167’’
in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box, and click
‘‘Search.’’ When the new screen
appears, click on ‘‘Comment Now!’’
button and type your comment into the
text box in the following screen. Choose
whether you are submitting your
comment as an individual or on behalf
of a third party and then submit. If you
submit your comments by mail or hand
delivery, submit them in an unbound
format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches,
suitable for copying and electronic
filing. If you submit comments by mail
and would like to know that they
reached the facility, please enclose a
stamped, self-addressed postcard or
envelope.
FMCSA will consider all comments
and material received during the
comment period and may change this
notice based on your comments.
Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, as well as other
documents available in the docket, go to
https://www.regulations.gov and insert
the docket number, ‘‘FMCSA–2010–
0167’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box and click
‘‘Search.’’ Next, click the ‘‘Open Docket
Folder’’ button and choose the
document listed to review. If you do not
have access to the Internet, you may
view the docket online by visiting the
Docket Management Facility in Room
W12–140 on the ground floor of the
DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act
All comments received will be posted
without change to https://
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www.regulations.gov and will include
any personal information you have
provided. Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit https://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8785.pdf.
II. The Study
The purpose of the study was to
assess the benefits of installed EHSRs on
safety and HOS violations related to
Class 7 and 8 trucks as they operated
during normal revenue-producing
deliveries. Data were obtained through a
third-party vendor that compiled
previously-generated compliance data
regarding participating motor carriers.
Although the final data sets included
data from 11 carriers representing small,
medium, and large carriers (including a
total of 82,943 crashes, 970 HOS
violations, and 224,034 truck-years that
drove a total of 15.6 billion miles), the
data set in the study was skewed toward
larger, for-hire carriers and may not
represent the overall U.S. trucking
population. After controlling for year,
carriers in the data set, onboard safety
system (OBSS) status, and long-haul/
regional indicator, EHSR-equipped
trucks had a significantly lower total
crash rate (11.7 percent reduction) and
a significantly lower preventable crash
rate (5.1 percent reduction) than trucks
not equipped with an EHSR. Small
sample sizes limited the power to detect
a significant difference between the
EHSR cohort and the non-EHSR cohort
for U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT)-recordable and fatigue-related
crashes. This result is primarily
attributed to the lack of sufficient data
(in terms of the number of these types
of crashes) to be able to detect safety
benefits with statistical significance at
the observed level.
After controlling for year, carrier
index, OBSS status, and long-haul/
regional indicator, EHSR-equipped
trucks had a 53 percent lower drivingrelated HOS violation rate and a 49
percent lower non-driving-related HOS
violation rate than trucks not equipped
with EHSRs. The results show a clear
safety benefit, in terms of crash and
HOS violation reductions, for trucks
equipped with EHSRs.
The Center for Truck and Bus Safety
at the Virginia Tech Transportation
Institute conducted the study on behalf
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of FMCSA. This study was mentioned
in the Friday, March 28, 2014
Supplemental Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (SNPRM) (79 FR 17656,
17665), and the findings of this study
are consistent with the estimate of safety
benefits presented in the ELD SNPRM.
FMCSA makes the ‘‘Evaluating the
Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic
Hours-of-Service Recorders’’ available to
the public and places this study in the
docket for the ELD rulemaking, because
FMCSA seeks comments from the
public on this study as it relates to the
SNPRM. The docket for this rulemaking
closes on May 27, 2014.
Issued on: April 29, 2014.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0071]
Hours of Service of Drivers: McKee
Foods Transportation, LLC,
Application for Exemption
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:
FMCSA announces that it has
received an application from McKee
Foods Transportation, LLC (MFT) for an
exemption from certain provisions of
the Agency’s hours-of-service (HOS)
regulations. MFT proposes that its team
drivers engaged in delivery and
backhaul operations be granted an
exemption from the HOS rules
pertaining to use of a sleeper berth (SB).
Current HOS rules require that all SB
rest regimens include, in part, the
regular use of a SB period for at least 8
hours—combined with a separate period
of at least 2 hours, either in the SB, offduty or some combination of both—to
gain the equivalent of at least 10
consecutive hours off duty. MFT
proposes that its team drivers be
allowed to take the equivalent of 10
consecutive hours off duty by splitting
SB time into two periods totaling 10
hours, provided neither of the two
periods is less than 3 hours. FMCSA
requests public comment on MFT’s
application for exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 11, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
SUMMARY:
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Management System Number FMCSA–
2014–0071 by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review a Privacy Act notice regarding
our public dockets in the January 17,
2008, issue of the Federal Register (73
FR 3316).
Public participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and
Carrier Operations Division; Office of
Carrier, Driver and Vehicle Safety
Standards; Telephone: 202–366–4325.
Email: MCPSD@dot.gov.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2010-0167]
RIN 2126-AB20
Electronic Logging Devices and Hours of Service Supporting
Documents; Evaluating the Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic
Hours-of-Service Recorders
ACTION: Notice of availability of research report.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
announces the availability of a new final report, ``Evaluating the
Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders.''
The study quantitatively evaluated whether trucks equipped with
Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders (EHSRs) have a lower (or higher)
crash and hours-of-service (HOS) violation rate than those without
EHSRs. The safety benefits of EHSRs were quantitatively evaluated by
comparing the crash risk for two exposure groups (i.e., EHSRs were
considered to improve safety if the trucks with EHSRs showed a lower
crash risk than trucks without EHSRs). For this project, EHSRs were
defined as any device that electronically records drivers' HOS. The
study is an effort to further quantify the safety benefits of
electronic logging devices (ELDs) and provides results that are
consistent with the Agency's estimates of safety benefits of an ELD
mandate, as proposed on March 28, 2014. A copy of the report has been
placed in the docket referenced at the beginning of this notice.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA-2010-0167 using any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Each submission must include the Agency name and the docket number
for this notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received without
change to www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
included in a comment. Please see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments, go to www.regulations.gov at any time or visit Room W12-140
on the ground level of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The on-line Federal document management system
is available 24 hours each day, 365 days each year. If you want
acknowledgment that we received your comments, please include a self-
addressed, stamped envelope or postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT's Privacy Act Statement for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit https://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-785.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this study,
please contact Mr. Albert Alvarez, Research Division of the Office of
Analysis, Research, and Technology, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001
or by telephone at 202-385-2377.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Public Participation and Request for Comments
FMCSA encourages you to participate by submitting comments and
related materials.
Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please include the docket number for this
notice (FMCSA-2010-0167), indicate the specific section of this
document to which each comment applies, and provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation. You may submit your comments and material
online or by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but please use only one of
these means. FMCSA recommends that you include your name and a mailing
address, an email address, or a phone number in the body of your
document so the Agency can contact you if it has questions regarding
your submission.
To submit your comment online, go to https://www.regulations.gov and
put the docket number, ``FMCSA-2010-0167'' in the ``Keyword'' box, and
click ``Search.'' When the new screen appears, click on ``Comment
Now!'' button and type your comment into the text box in the following
screen. Choose whether you are submitting your comment as an individual
or on behalf of a third party and then submit. If you submit your
comments by mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no
larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic
filing. If you submit comments by mail and would like to know that they
reached the facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard
or envelope.
FMCSA will consider all comments and material received during the
comment period and may change this notice based on your comments.
Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, as well as other documents available in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number,
``FMCSA-2010-0167'' in the ``Keyword'' box and click ``Search.'' Next,
click the ``Open Docket Folder'' button and choose the document listed
to review. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may view the
docket online by visiting the Docket Management Facility in Room W12-
140 on the ground floor of the DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act
All comments received will be posted without change to https://
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www.regulations.gov and will include any personal information you have
provided. Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or you may visit
https://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-785.pdf.
II. The Study
The purpose of the study was to assess the benefits of installed
EHSRs on safety and HOS violations related to Class 7 and 8 trucks as
they operated during normal revenue-producing deliveries. Data were
obtained through a third-party vendor that compiled previously-
generated compliance data regarding participating motor carriers.
Although the final data sets included data from 11 carriers
representing small, medium, and large carriers (including a total of
82,943 crashes, 970 HOS violations, and 224,034 truck-years that drove
a total of 15.6 billion miles), the data set in the study was skewed
toward larger, for-hire carriers and may not represent the overall U.S.
trucking population. After controlling for year, carriers in the data
set, onboard safety system (OBSS) status, and long-haul/regional
indicator, EHSR-equipped trucks had a significantly lower total crash
rate (11.7 percent reduction) and a significantly lower preventable
crash rate (5.1 percent reduction) than trucks not equipped with an
EHSR. Small sample sizes limited the power to detect a significant
difference between the EHSR cohort and the non-EHSR cohort for U.S.
Department of Transportation (USDOT)-recordable and fatigue-related
crashes. This result is primarily attributed to the lack of sufficient
data (in terms of the number of these types of crashes) to be able to
detect safety benefits with statistical significance at the observed
level.
After controlling for year, carrier index, OBSS status, and long-
haul/regional indicator, EHSR-equipped trucks had a 53 percent lower
driving-related HOS violation rate and a 49 percent lower non-driving-
related HOS violation rate than trucks not equipped with EHSRs. The
results show a clear safety benefit, in terms of crash and HOS
violation reductions, for trucks equipped with EHSRs.
The Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the Virginia Tech
Transportation Institute conducted the study on behalf of FMCSA. This
study was mentioned in the Friday, March 28, 2014 Supplemental Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) (79 FR 17656, 17665), and the findings
of this study are consistent with the estimate of safety benefits
presented in the ELD SNPRM.
FMCSA makes the ``Evaluating the Potential Safety Benefits of
Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders'' available to the public and
places this study in the docket for the ELD rulemaking, because FMCSA
seeks comments from the public on this study as it relates to the
SNPRM. The docket for this rulemaking closes on May 27, 2014.
Issued on: April 29, 2014.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2014-10813 Filed 5-9-14; 8:45 am]
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