Safety Management in Small Motor Carriers (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Performs most management and supervision tasks, including safety and compliance." The first set of questions (1–14) asked about the importance of various small carrier safety management problems.
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Safety management practices used by a majority of carrier respondents and receiving high favorable ratings included maintaining PM schedules, conducting road and range tests for driver applicants, and participating in peer meetings. Ironically, the three least-used practices all received high average effectiveness ratings from those who used them.
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Motor carriers of all sizes appear to recognize the importance of vehicle maintenance and consider it the foundation of safety. This was seen in the current survey and has been seen also in past CTBSSP Synthesis reports.
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suggest many effective safety management practices for small carriers and their owners/managers. A company's progression toward more comprehensive safety management is likely to include adoption of multiple new practices such as those described here.
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Survey respondents identified driver selection and hiring as the most important safety management area, and much other research supports that opinion. Chapter four, "Driver Hiring," presented a number of effective driver hiring practices, based in part on CTBSSP Synthesis 21.
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This report has frequently cited findings from the I-95 Corridor Coalition Coordinated Safety Management Study, which compared carrier safety practices and outcomes by carrier size. Across almost all measures, Stock found that larger fleets generally had more active and systematic approaches to safety.
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CTBSSP Synthesis 21 reviewed driver selection methods of commercial truck and bus companies. Driver selection relies on tests, measurements, and other assessments of applicants.
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Vehicle safety equipment was seen by survey respondents as the least important of ten safety management areas, and only four of 111 survey respondents regularly purchased such devices. However, advanced safety technologies can dramatically reduce crashes.
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