Motor Carrier Safety Profiles from the Department of Transportation

Company Snapshot records provide identification, size, commodity, and safety data for motor carriers and bus companies. The dataset includes safety ratings, roadside out-of-service inspection summaries, and crash information. It is maintained by the Department of Transportation and was last updated in June 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze safety rating distributions across motor carriers to identify high-risk companies.
• Correlate roadside out-of-service inspection results with crash information for risk modeling.
• Profile commodity and hazardous materials transport patterns using company identification and size data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Department of Transportation.
• Includes multiple safety record facets like safety rating, out-of-service inspections, and crash data.
• Updated regularly, with a last recorded update in June 2024.

Limitations

• Data access is limited to ad-hoc queries for one carrier at a time, hindering bulk analysis.
• The dataset format is HTML, which is not structured for direct machine processing.
• Specific scale metrics like row count, column count, and temporal coverage are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transportation

Collection Method

Electronic records from safety and fitness monitoring systems (e.g., SaferSys).

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-26.