# 2025-19975: FMCSA Studies How Truck Driver Hours Lead to Road Crashes

2025-19975, Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information Collection: Crash Risks by Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Driver Schedules, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published 2025-11-17 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19975
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-19975
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information Collection: Crash Risks by Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Driver Schedules
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 51434
- Published: 2025-11-17
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: 2026-01-16
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

FMCSA Studies How Truck Driver Hours Lead to Road Crashes

## Summary

The FMCSA wants to collect new info about truck drivers’ work schedules to see how they affect crash risks and safety. This means drivers, companies, and safety experts will share data like hours worked and accident records. Comments on this plan are open until January 16, 2026, so jump in and have your say!

## Abstract

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.

## Effects PRIA read

- Motor Carrier Reporting Burden: cost, low. The FMCSA plans to collect information from motor carriers and estimates 60 respondents. Each response is estimated at 15 minutes (0.25 hours); the total estimated annual burden is 45 hours, with some items reported one time (IC1, IC2) and others quarterly (IC3).
- Driver Schedules and Crash Data Collected: benefit, low. FMCSA will collect drivers' hours-of-service (HOS) duty logs, accident and incident data, inspection violation records, and driver demographic data. The HOS and incident data will be obtained via integration with telematics system providers and carriers; all data collection will be electronic.
- Public Deidentified Data Release: benefit, low. The contractor (Pulsar Informatics) must develop a publicly available deidentified data set to be housed in the FMCSA Data Repository. All personally identifiable information will be removed, and the deidentified data set will be provided to FMCSA after relevant State and Federal statutes of limita…

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## Sources
- [2025-19975 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/17/2025-19975/agency-information-collection-activities-new-information-collection-crash-risks-by-commercial-motor)
- [2025-19975 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-17/pdf/2025-19975.pdf)

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- [Next: 2025-19976, Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19976)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19975 (as of 2026-06-08).