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Evidence points to the following human trait categories as being most relevant to driving safety, and thus of greatest potential interest for commercial driver assessment: • Personality, including behavioral tendencies and attitudes • Psychomotor skills and cognitive functions • Medical status and conditions • Behavioral history • Mental ability. This report has reviewed the academic, commercial, and industry literature on tests, measurements, and other procedures used by motor carriers to select safe commercial drivers.
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A driver's history of crashes, violations, and other incidents is a well-documented predictor of future crash involvements and whether the driver will be at fault in future crashes. Past traffic violations seem to be a better predictor of future crashes than are past crashes themselves, because the former are more numerous (and thus more statistically reliable)
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This project included convenience sample surveys of both current carrier safety managers and other experts in truck and bus safety. Survey findings cannot be considered representative of larger subject populations such as "all motor carrier safety managers" because the sample spaces consisted of individuals already involved in national safety organizations and because only a minority of potential respondents actually completed the surveys.
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Selection and hiring of commercial drivers starts with ensuring that they meet all legal requirements of the FMCSRs. The process includes required hiring procedures and record keeping as well as certification that hired drivers meet licensing and medical qualifications.
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The latter might include driving tanker trucks or longer combination vehicles, which require greater skill and are generally higher paying. The relative lack of assessment R&D relating specifically to commercial drivers is a barrier to carrier use of many promising selection methods.
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Development of more representative samples of motor carrier safety managers or other populations of interest would require more information about those populations and better ways of reaching them. The CTBSSP and other motor carrier research programs would benefit from the development of this capability.
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Smaller carriers and others without the resources for fleet-based research are not likely to be able to perform such validation experiments. Therefore, more commercial driver selection test validation studies are needed, with results made available to the industry.
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