# Presentation: 710344

## PRISM	

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

## 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

## WHAT IS PRISM?

## What is PRISM?

-  _**PRISM IS A**__ __**100**__% __**Federally Funded**_ _***Public Safety Program***_** That Links a Motor Carrier’s Safety Performance to Its Vehicle Registration (USDOT# & VINs) to:**
**Deny, Suspend, and Revoke Registrations of OOS Carriers;**
**2.  Improve a Carrier’s Safety Performance; and,**
**3.  Enhance Data Quality**

**Notes:**

The Performance and Registration Information Systems Management program (PRISM) originated as a pilot project mandated by Congress in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.  The goal was to explore the benefits of using State commercial vehicle registration sanctions as an incentive to improve motor carrier safety.  Congress authorized funding to expand PRISM nationally.

## 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

## What is PRISM?

- PRISM PROVIDES THE CONNECTIVITY TO IDENTIFY TARGETED CARRIERS & THEIR VEHICLES

**FMCSA’s**
** ****MCMIS/SAFER**
**Database**

**PRISM State’s**
** ****Local IRP**
**Database**

**State IRP Office**

**Roadside**

## PRISM...Two Main Processes

-  Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Process
-  Commercial Vehicle Registration Process

**Notes:**
The PRISM program includes two major processes - the Commercial Vehicle Registration Process and Enforcement, which work in parallel to identify motor carriers and hold them responsible for the safety of their operation.  The performance of unsafe carriers is improved through a comprehensive system of identification, education, awareness, data gathering, safety monitoring and treatment. 

## Motor Carrier Safety Improvement

**Process (MCSIP)**

-  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

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

## 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

## 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

## 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

## 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

## 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)
- Can’t register if prohibited from interstate operations

**Notes:**
Customer Service - PRISM provides a one-stop shopping opportunity for carriers to obtain a USDOT Number, meet Congressionally mandated data update requirements, and get their IRP license plates simultaneously.  Through the PRISM program, the state registration offices can issue these numbers for the federal government. 
Accountability - Identification of the carrier (via their USDOT number) responsible for the safe operation of the vehicles being registered has produced a major safety benefit.  It helps ensure motor carriers that have been ordered by the FMCSA to cease interstate operations do not continue to maintain interstate license plates. In addition, safety events (e.g. inspection, accident, driver moving violations) affecting a PRISM registered vehicle can be more accurately tied back to the responsible motor carrier.

## How Do the Commercial Vehicle

**Registration Process & PRISM**
**Affect Safety**

-  Administrative Enforcement

**PRISM and vehicle registration**

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

## Slide 15

## PRISM Assistance

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

## WHAT IS THE STATUS OF PRISM IMPLEMENTATION?

## 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 **

## PRISM State Implementation Map:

**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 Implementing****an 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)
**PRISM Level 3**** – *****GREEN***** ****Denying, Suspending, Revoking for Federal OOSO ****Bar Coding PRISM Specs **
**Enforcement Stopping Targeted Vehicles**
- (19 States: AR, CT, GA, IA, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM,
-  OH, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WV)
** ****N/A – *****WHITE***** **(3 States: MD, MI, NV, )             _**Total PRISM States:  30**_

**PRISM State Implementation Map:**
**November  2008**

## FY 2008 PRISM Activities

## Pre-Implementation levels

**   **

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

## 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**** **
** **
**  ****Implementation Level 3 (GREEN States)**
**Denying, Suspending, Revoking registration for Federal OOSO **
**Complying with PRISM Bar Code Specifications **
**Law Enforcement Stopping Targeted Vehicles**** **

## 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**

## 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**

## 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.**

## 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 Volpe’s PRISM support that resulted in annual savings of approximately $450K. **

## PRISM	

**Fiscal Year 2009**
**Objectives**

## 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.**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**
** **

## FY 2009 PRISM Objectives

**Initiate and support an amendment to IRP Inc’s. 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.**
** **

## PRISM Contact Information

**Tom Lawler**
**	****FMCSA, MC-ESS**
**	****(202) 366-3866**
**	**_[tom.lawler@dot.gov](mailto:tom.lawler@dot.gov)_
**Linley Oberman**
**      ****PRISM IRP Support**
**	**** **_[Oberman1345@aol.com](mailto:Oberman1345@aol.com)_
**Tim Hayes**
**      ****PRISM Technical Support**
**      ****Tim.Hayes**_[@Volpe.Dot.Gov](mailto:Gary.DeRusha@Volpe.Dot.Gov)_
**Chuck Kleber**
**     ****PRISM LE Support**
**     ****ckleber@att.net**