Action
Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking.
Summary
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) collects data from motor carriers of property on annual report Form M and quarterly report Form QFR. BTS proposes to adopt measures concerning what data from those forms are made publicly available. Summary information, where information cannot be readily matched to an individual carrier, would always be made available. However, the proposed rules would restrict access to individual carrier data for some of the operating statistics, revenue equipment, and employment data items. Access to these data items would be limited to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and to such persons and in such circumstances as DOT determines to be in the public interest or consistent with the Department's regulatory functions and responsibilities.