Trucking Industry

Question 0

What percentage of US commodities rely exclusively on trucks to deliver their products and goods

Answer 0

80%

Question 1

What year was the first Diesel engine produced

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

The average daily run for a long-haul, over the road truck driver is nearly how many miles?

Answer 2

500

Question 3

Commercial Class 8 trucks alone logged, on average, how many miles per unit?

Answer 3

52,000 or so miles per year per unit.

Question 4

Businesses choose trucks for nearly how many cents out of every dollar they spend on freight transportation?

Answer 4

81 cents

Question 5

In 2010, Commercial Class 6-8 trucks logged over how many billion miles for business purposes?

Answer 5

152.4 billion

Question 6

American Trucking Associations was established in what year?

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

Motor Carrier Act part II was signed into law what year?

Answer 7

1935

Question 8

What year was the US PATRIOT Act signed?

Answer 8

2001

Question 9

What year was America’s Road Team established?

Answer 9

1986

Question 10

The number of fatalities were reduced to what percentage between 2005 and 2011?

Answer 10

28%

Question 11

By the start of World War I, there were approximately how many trucks in use nationwide?

Answer 11

300,000

Question 12

At war’s end, over two million heavy duty trucks were being utilized by the government and the private sector. True or false?

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What year was the Federal Highway-Aid Act established?

Answer 13

1956

Question 14

What year was the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act signed into law?

Answer 14

1999

Question 15

What year was the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration established?

Answer 15

1970

Question 16

Today, how many million for-hire, private and other interstate motor carriers do business in the United States?

Answer 16

1.35 million

Question 17

In 2013, over how many million trucks hauled more than 9.7 billion tons of freight?

Answer 17

32

Question 18

In 2012, over 23 million trucks hauled more than how many billion tons of freight?

Answer 18

9

Question 19

In 1995 the Interstate Commerce Commision was formally abolished, shifting it’s remaining power to whom?

Answer 19

Surface Transportation Board

Question 20

Between 1980 and 1990 the number of licensed motor carriers more than doubled to over _____?

Answer 20

40,000

Question 21

According to the BTS, as of 2013, there are how many bridges in the US?

Answer 21

607,708

Question 22

What percentage of bridges do the BTS consider rural?

Answer 22

73%

Question 23

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics what percentage of bridges are considered functionally obsolete?

Answer 23

14%

Question 24

Map-21 funding provided for continued improvement and expansion of the National Highway System to meet the estimated ____% or _________ miles increase over the next several years.u

Answer 24

26% and 59,926 miles

Question 25

In the past ten years the number of bridges has grown by how many?

Answer 25

15,786 or 3%

Question 26

In the past ten years the number of bridges considered structurally deficient has declined by how much?

Answer 26

18,734

Question 27

The Arterial system carries what percentage of all highway travel?

Answer 27

72%

Question 28

The 47,432 mile long Interstate Highway System is composed of arterial highways, with what percentage in rural area and what percentage in urban areas?

Answer 28

65% and 35% respectively

Question 29

Collectors carry about what percentage of the travel?

Answer 29

15%

Question 30

Local roads carry over what percentage of the travel?

Answer 30

13%

Question 31

Of all the roadway systems, which one is the most essential to the nations economy, defense and mobility, even though it only comprises 4.1% of the nations roads?

Answer 31

National Highway System

Question 32

Any package containing any hazardous material, permanently attached to a motor vehicle, must be secured against shifting? True or False?

Answer 32

False. NOT permanently secured.

Question 33

Each person who knowingly violates a requirement of Federal HM transportation law is liable for a civil penalty of not more than $_______ and not less than $_______ for each violation.

Answer 33

$75,000 and $250

Question 34

What does CCSF stand for?

Answer 34

Certified Cargo Screening Facility

Question 35

What identification is requires to enter secure are of any port?

Answer 35

TWIC

Question 36

Trucks are required to transmit manifest information how long prior to arrival at the port of entry?

Answer 36

One hour

Question 37

Over how many millions of TWICs have been issued to port employees?

Answer 37

20.6 million

Question 38

How many days can a driver be disqualified for who violated an of out service order?

Answer 38

180 days

Question 39

For a second violation of an out of service order within 10 years, the penalty is disqualification for no less than ___ years and no more than _____ years.

Answer 39

2 and 5 respectively

Question 40

What does LTCCS stand for?

Answer 40

Large Truck Crash Causation Study

Question 41

TSA was created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as part of what Act signed into law by President George W. Bush on Nov. 19, 2001.

Answer 41

Aviation and Transportation Security Act

Question 42

What is WHTI?

Answer 42

Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

Question 43

Hard evidence shows that each year safety belts prevent how many fatalities?

Answer 43

15,700

Question 44

The trucking industry and the U.S. DOT have formed a Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Belt Partnership to increase safety belt usage and urge governors of how many states to further toughen safety belt laws?

Answer 44

17

Question 45

What percent of VMT travel is in urban areas?

Answer 45

61%

Question 46

The Arterial road system carries and makes up what percentages of total U.S. miles?

Answer 46

72% | 11%