PRISM

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PRISM

• Update Brief
• CVISN Deployment Workshop
• December 4, 2008

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Purpose of Presentation and Discussion

• A brief overview of PRISM
• The Status of PRISM National Implementation
• Update of PRISM FY 2008 activities
• PRISM Fiscal Year 2009 Objectives

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WHAT IS PRISM?
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What is PRISM?

• PRISM IS A 100 Federally Funded Public Safety
  Program That Links a Motor Carriers Safety
  Performance to Its Vehicle Registration (USDOT
  VINs) to
• Deny, Suspend, and Revoke Registrations of OOS
  Carriers
• 2. Improve a Carriers Safety Performance and,
• 3. Enhance Data Quality

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What is PRISM?

• Unique partnership with State DMVs that helps
• Ensure carriers meet MCS-150 data update
  regulations as a condition of plate renewal
• Strengthen FMCSA enforcement by providing for
  suspension and/or denial of license plates in
  conjunction with carrier OOS orders
• Catch Chameleon Carriers that change names and
  USDOT numbers to avoid oversight

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What is PRISM?

• PRISM PROVIDES THE CONNECTIVITY TO IDENTIFY
  TARGETED CARRIERS THEIR VEHICLES

PRISM States Local IRP Database
FMCSAs MCMIS/SAFER Database
Roadside
State IRP Office
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PRISM...Two Main Processes

• Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Process
• Commercial Vehicle Registration Process

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Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Process (MCSIP)

• MCSIP - Process to Improve the Safety of High-
• Risk Motor Carriers Through More Accurate
• Identification, Treatment, and Assessment

• Uses SafeStat to identify and monitor high-risk
  motor
• carriers
• Applies treatments commensurate with risk
• Applies progressively harsher treatments to
  carriers
• that do not improve

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Commercial Vehicle Registration Process

• International Registration Plan (IRP) Provides
  the Framework for the PRISM Program
• Establishes Link Between the Motor Carrier
  Responsible for Safety and Every Vehicle
  Registered through the IRP
• Prohibits Renewal of Interstate Plates if Carrier
  Responsible for Safety is under a Federal Order
  to Stop Interstate Operations

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Commercial Vehicle Registration Process

• International Registration Plan (IRP)

• Provides the framework for the PRISM Program
• Agreement among the States to uniformly register
• commercial vehicles that run interstate

• Critical Functions

• Makes safety fitness a requirement to obtain a
  plate
• Uses registration sanctions (Denial, Suspension,
  or
• Revocation) as a powerful incentive to
  improve safety

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Benefits of PRISM

• Improved Safety

• Accurate identification of high risk carriers
• Warning Letter
• 30 of WL carriers improved in pilot
• Enables FMCSA to reach twice as many carriers

• Improved Data Quality

• Bar codes reduce inspection data entry errors
• Current census data
• Ability to correct non-matches

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Benefits of PRISM

• Performance Based System

• Carriers identified based on safety data
• Carriers enter and exit the MCSIP based on
  highway
• performance

• Accurate Identification of High-Risk Carriers

More Accurate Targeting of High Risk Carriers
- Study showed that SafeStat identified
carriers were nearly 3 times as likely
to be involved in accidents
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Benefits of PRISM
Customer Service
Promotes one-stop shop for USDOT Number and
Plates
Accountability for Safety
Every interstate truck registered must have
a USDOT Number to identify entity
responsible for safety. (CVISN/CVIEW) Cant
register if prohibited from interstate operations
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How Do the Commercial Vehicle Registration
Process PRISM Affect Safety
PRISM and vehicle registration
Administrative Enforcement

• All carriers must register every year
• 100 enforcement
• MCS 150 updates
• Prohibit out-of-service carriers from keeping
• interstate plates

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PRISM Assistance

• Training
• Guidelines for grant
• Clerical
• Law Enforcement
• Procedural Manual
• Specifications
• Newsletters
• National Conference Calls
• Site Visits
• Ad Hoc

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WHAT IS THE STATUS OF PRISM IMPLEMENTATION?
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DMV Enforcement of MCS-150 Update

• At least 29 State DMVs actively enforce MCS-150
  data update requirements as a condition of IRP
  plate renewal

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PRISM State Implementation Map November 2008

• PRISM Implementation Levels
• Grant Approval Only BLUE
• (7 States CO , HI, IL, ND, RI, VA, WI,)
• States Developing Implementation Plan for
  Approval PURPLE
• (4 States FL, MA, NJ, WY)
• States Implementingan Approved Plan GREY
• (6 States DC AK, CA, DE, MS, MT, NY)
• PRISM Level 1 RED Collecting/Validating USDOT
  Number of Carrier Responsible for Safety
• (8 States AZ, ID, IN, LA, OK, OR, PA, TX)
• PRISM Level 2 YELLOW Enforcing MCS-150 Update
• Checking Carrier Safety Status
• Submitting Targeted Vehicles to SAFER
• ( 3 States AL, KS, NC)

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FY 2008 PRISM Activities
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Pre-Implementation levels

• Grant approval (BLUE States) Funds set aside
  for state Cannot voucher until a plan is
  approved
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• States have received guideline training and are
  preparing a plan for approval (PURPLE States)
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• States have begun to implement but have not
  completed the first level of implementation (GREY
  States)

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Implementation levels

• Implementation Level 1 (RED States)
• Collecting and Validating USDOT Numbers of
  Carriers
• Responsible for Safety
• Implementation Level 2 (YELLOW States)
• Enforcing MCS-150 update
• Checking Carrier Safety Status at the registrant
  and carrier responsible for safety levels.
• Submitting Targeted Vehicles to SAFER
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• Implementation Level 3 (GREEN States)
• Denying, Suspending, Revoking registration for
  Federal OOSO
• Complying with PRISM Bar Code Specifications
• Law Enforcement Stopping Targeted Vehicles

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FY 2008 PRISM Activities

• Conducted training for Implementation Plan
  Development in 4 jurisdictions
• Massachusetts, Mississippi, Wyoming and the
• District of Columbia.
• Conducted overview sessions in 4 jurisdictions
• Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
• Approved PRISM Implementation Plans for 4
  jurisdictions
• California, Mississippi, Montana, Texas

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FY 2008 PRISM Activities

• Conducted Implementation Reviews to evaluate
  compliance with grant requirements in 9
  jurisdictions
• Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky,
  Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and
  Tennessee
• Conducted Clerical training
• Delaware and Texas

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FY 2008 PRISM Activities

• Developed model legislation for states to use to
  thwart chameleon carriers.
• Working with Kentucky and New York to provide
  funding for license plate and USDOT readers.
• Working with Georgia and Washington to implement
  non-IRP interstate and intrastate vehicle
  programs
• Modified bar code specifications to include
  state-weight file requested by states.

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FY 2008 PRISM Activities

• Developed a Law Enforcement training manual
• Requested changes to add MCSIP steps for
  suspension of operating authority
• Requested change to split the new entrant MCSIP
  step into two steps
• Reorganized and reduced the scope of Volpes
  PRISM support that resulted in annual savings of
  approximately 450K.

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PRISM

• Fiscal Year 2009
• Objectives

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FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

• Conduct Additional Training for Implementation
  Plan Development
• Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Virginia, and
  Wisconsin
• Conduct Additional Implementation Reviews
• Arizona, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, Maine,
• North Carolina, and Kansas
• Increase number of States invoking IRP
  registration sanctions and enforcing MCS-150 data
  update requirements.

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FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

• Implement PRISM specific web-site.
• Implement modified requirements in states
• Expanded validation checks
• Re-validation at renewal
• Re-certification of bar code
• Chameleon legislation
• Intrastate legislation
• Implement an expanded PRISM program in additional
  states

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FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

• Continue to improve Roadside Enforcement
• Too many OOS carriers being inspected without
  inspector knowledge of OOS Order
• Provide funding to improve roadside connectivity
  and timeliness of data at roadside through FMCSA
  Query Central and NLETS

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FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

• Implement change to add MCSIP steps to indicate
  to state DMVs and roadside enforcement that a
  carrier is OOS due to revocation of operating
  authority
• Implement the change to split the new entrant
  MCSIP step into two steps

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FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

• Initiate and support an amendment to IRP Incs.
  charter to require Charter Buses to register
  through IRP.
• Eliminate the issuance of Registrant Only USDOT
  Numbers provide PRISM Grants to States to
  modify their IRP systems.

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PRISM Contact Information

• Tom Lawler
• FMCSA, MC-ESS
• [phone]
• tom.lawler_at_dot.gov
• Linley Oberman
• PRISM IRP Support
• Oberman1345_at_aol.com
• Tim Hayes
• PRISM Technical Support
• Tim.Hayes_at_Volpe.Dot.Gov
• Chuck Kleber
• PRISM LE Support
• ckleber_at_att.net