Safety Matters
- Continually Improving: At the national level, the truck-involved fatal crash rate for 2006 was 1.93 fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle miles of travel (VMT). This rate is at its lowest point since the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) began keeping these records in 1975. The injury crash rate for 2006 was 34.4 injury crashes per 100 million vehicle miles of travel (VMT), also at its lowest point since DOT recordkeeping began.
- Sharing the Road: The trucking industry is committed to sharing the road safely with all vehicles. The Share the Road program sends a team of professional truck drivers to communities around the country to teach car drivers about truck blind spots, stopping distances and safe merging around large trucks, all designed to reduce the number of car-truck accidents.
- Safety First: Colorado Motor Carriers Association members put safety first through improved driver training, investment in advanced safety technologies and active participation in industry safety initiatives at the local, state and national levels.
Trucking and the Environment
- Air Quality: Trucking has made greater strides in air quality than any other vehicles
on our highways today. A 2006 truck is 10 times cleaner than a 1988 one
with a 98% reduction in PM and NOx.
- Emissions: Trucks make up a small percentage of the state’s emissions. While
truck travel has grown substantially in areas such as the Denver Region,
diesel emissions have dropped.
- Efficiency: Fuel efficiency has increased by over 30% since 1982.
NOTE: Last Updated August 2008 using 2006, 2007, and 2008 data when available. This page is updated periodically to reflect the most recent statistics.