South Carolina has been awarded $1.9 million from FMCSA for its SMART Virtual Reality Awareness Program to Reduce CMV Crashes, which will use virtual reality to enable drivers to experience realistic situations and refine their responses and actions.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 2022 statistics on highway crashes, the fatal crash involvement rate when from 1.75 per million miles in 2021 to 1.76 per million miles in 2022 while all other vehicle types saw fatal involvement rate decline over the same period.

According to a report by the National Academies of Science, available data and empirical research are insufficient to determine whether driver compensation methods and working conditions affect safety performance of drivers in the long-distance truckload sector.

According to FMCSA data, 66.2% of for-hire motor carriers have only one truck.