At a recent Arizona Rock Products Association Safety and Transportation committee meeting, a representative from ADOT reported the following statistics from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Motor Carrier Management Information System. This snapshot represents data as of 1/27/2017:
| CY 2016 (Arizona) | CY 2016 (National) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fed | State | Total | Fed | State | Total | |
| Driver Inspections* | 9,999 | 62,332 | 72,331 | 30,405 | 2,907,083 | 2937488 |
| with Driver OOSViolation | 58 | 7,392 | 7,450 | 626 | 155,175 | 155,801 |
| Driver OOS Rate | 0.58% | 11.86% | 10.30% | 2.06% | 5.34% | 5.30% |
| Vehicle Inspections** | 6,433 | 42,102 | 48,535 | 24,984 | 2,036,047 | 2,061,031 |
| with Vehicle OOS Violoation | 1,169 | 7,679 | 8,848 | 3,891 | 413,921 | 417,812 |
| Vehicle OOS Rate | 18.17% | 18.24% | 18.23% | 15.57% | 20.33% | 20.27% |
*Driver inspections were computed based on the inspection levels I, II, II, AND VI **Vehicle inpsection were computed based on inspection levels I, II, V, AND VI
Driver OOS violations issued by ADOT are significantly higher than those issued by the Feds within Arizona and Arizona’s total driver OOS violations are roughly twice the national average. Vehicle OOS violations issued by ADOT are at par with those issued by the Fed’s in Arizona and below the national average.
OOS rates were also reported for Mexico and Canada domiciled carriers:
| CY 2016 (Arizona) | CY 2016 (National) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fed | State | Total | Fed | State | Total | |
| Driver OOS Rate – Mx | 1.51% | 3.12 | 1.77 | 1.04 | 0.66 | 0.78 |
| Vehicle OOS Rate – Mx | 29.01 | 17.88 | 28.08 | 21.93 | 17.39 | 18.92 |
| Driver OOS Rate – Ca | 0 | 7.33 | 7.25% | 1.84% | 3.23% | 3.23 |
| Vehicle OOS Rate – Ca | 14.29 | 10.43 | 10.50 | 8.74 | 11.69 | 11.68% |
Routine driver safety training programs and pre-trip and post-trip inspections are simple and effective ways to keep your drivers and vehicles, on the road, services customers and meeting deadlines.