[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 219 (Monday, November 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51434-51435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19975]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2025-0391]
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information
Collection: Crash Risks by Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Driver
Schedules
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA
announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA needs additional
data to answer important questions related to driver schedules and how
these factors impact overall driver performance and fatigue. This
research requires data to be collected for hours of service (HOS) duty
logs, accident and incident data, and inspection violations records.
The information collected will be used to examine the relative risk of
crashes and inspection violations based on various factors related to
the driver's work schedule and demographics.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before January
16, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket Number FMCSA-
2025-0391 using any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Dockets Operations; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: Dockets Operations, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Washington, DC, 20590-0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. To be sure someone is
there to help you, please call (202) 366-9317 or (202) 366-9826 before
visiting Dockets Operations.
Fax: (202) 493-2251.
To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods.
See the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for instructions on submitting
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theresa Hallquist, Research Division,
DOT, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001; 202-
366-1064; [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Instructions
All submissions must include the Agency name and docket number. For
detailed instructions on submitting comments, see the Public
Participation heading below. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Public Participation and Request for Comments
If you submit a comment, please include the docket number for this
notice (FMCSA-2025-0391), indicate the specific section of this
document to which your 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 FMCSA can contact you if there are questions regarding your
submission.
To submit your comment online, go to https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FMCSA-2025-0391/document, click on this notice, click
``Comment,'' and type your comment into the text box on the following
screen.
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.
FMCSA will consider all comments and material received during the
comment period.
Privacy Act
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments from the
public to better inform its regulatory process. DOT posts these
comments, including any personal information the commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov as described in the system of records notice DOT/
ALL 14 (Federal Docket Management System (FDMS)), which can be reviewed
at https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/privacy/privacy-act-system-records-notices. The comments are posted without edits and are
searchable by the name of the submitter.
Background
This information collection supports the DOT Strategic Goal of
Safety. The preamble of FMCSA's 2011 final HOS rule (76 FR 81134)
stated that FMCSA is committed to an analysis of the relative crash
risk by driving hour, the impact of the changes in the HOS provisions,
and examination of differences in crash risk after restarts that
include 2 nights and those that do not. The HOS final rule also said
that FMCSA would work with the OMB on the methodologies of these new
statistical data collections.
FMCSA needs additional data to answer important questions related
to driver schedules and how these factors impact overall driver
performance and fatigue. This research requires data to be collected
for HOS duty logs, accident and incident data, and inspection
violations records. HOS duty logs, as well as incident and crash data,
will be obtained through an integration with the telematics system
provider, and driver demographic data will be provided directly by
participating carriers. FMCSA will provide access to the Motor Carrier
Management Information System database, which provides records of all
DOT recordable crashes and inspection violation records. All data will
be collected electronically. The information collected will be used to
examine the relative risk of crashes and inspection violations based on
various factors related to the driver's work schedule and demographics.
Pulsar Informatics, under contract with FMCSA, is required to
develop a publicly available deidentified data set to be housed in the
FMCSA Data Repository. All personally identifiable information shall be
removed, and other methods of protecting privacy shall be utilized as
needed. This deidentified data set will be provided to FMCSA
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after all relevant statutes of limitations (at both State and Federal
levels) pertaining to legal discoverability processes have expired.
FMCSA has determined that this collection of information is
necessary for study completion. Currently, there is no comprehensive,
existing data set that can be used for this project. Not collecting
this data would result in an incomplete understanding of HOS-related
factors that impact crash risk and the effect of alternative schedules
as they relate to various aspects of HOS provisions on crash risk in
CMV operations. Further, the absence of this information collection
would prevent FMCSA from meeting its goal--derived from the 2015 report
\1\ by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine--
of developing a comprehensive, structured database of crash data and
driver schedules to benefit future research.
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\1\ The report, ``Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-
Term Health, and Highway Safety,'' is available at https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21921/commercial-motor-vehicle-driver-fatigue-long-term-health-and-highway-safety.
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Title: Crash Risks by Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Driver
Schedules.
OMB Control Number: 2126-XXXX.
Type of Request: New ICR.
Respondents: Motor carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 60.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes (0.25 hours).
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new ICR.
Frequency of Response: One time (IC1, IC2); quarterly (IC3).
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 45 hours.
The total annual burden is calculated as the sum of IC1, IC2, and
IC3:
IC1: 15 responses per year x 0.25 hours per response = 3.75 total
annual burden hours.
IC2: 15 responses per year x 0.25 hours per response = 3.75 total
annual burden hours.
IC3: 150 responses per year x 0.25 hours per response = 37.5 total
annual burden hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the performance of FMCSA's functions; (2)
the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for FMCSA to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and (4)
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of
the collected information. The Agency will summarize or include your
comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Nicole Michel,
Acting Associate Administrator Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2025-19975 Filed 11-14-25; 8:45 am]
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