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FMCSA Explores Crash Weighting

At the February 27, 2014, meeting of the DOT|TRCC FMCSA presented on their ongoing research into crash weighting, The agency hopes this effort will determine how crash weighting might improve the agency’s ability to identify high crash-risk motor carriers.

Crash weighting bookletFor the research plan, click here.