1999 PIC CARRIER PERFORMANCE
MEETING THE MARK: As a group, the 21 carriers enrolled in PIC last year had little trouble meeting some benchmarks. Others were more difficult. They went over the non-urban collision rate – 0.68 collisions per million miles versus the target of 0.45. And they went over the CVSA vehicle inspections out-of-service rate – 12.6% versus the target of less than 10.0%. In addition, there were three incidents of overloads where the extra weight was more than 20% over the allowable limit (versus a benchmark of zero). Carriers aren’t thrown out of PIC if they exceed the benchmarks. Rather, they have to file exception reports and work to improve their performance.
| PIC Benchmark | PIC Performance | |
| (21 carriers, 1999) | ||
| Collision rate (per million miles) | ||
| – Urban | 2.00 | 1.79 |
| – non-urban | 0.45 | 0.68 |
| CVSA Inspections – out-of-service rate | 10.0% | 12.6% |
| Hours of Service – violation rate (% of daily records) | 5.0% | 2.2% |
| Dangerous Goods | ||
| – completion errors (% of records reviewed) | 10.0% | 2.6% |
| – occurrences (per million miles) | 0.20 | 0.19 |
| Overloads | ||
| – total dispatches | 605,782 | |
| – overloads allowed (actual) | 6,077 | 1,701 |
| – overloads more than 20% over allowed (actual) | 0 | 3 |
| Over Dimension Loads (permit, LCVs) | ||
| – violation rate (% of dispatches) | 1.0% | 0.1% |
| – documents rejected (% of submitted) | 15.0% | 5.1% |
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