Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability

PB2 Performance Report for the Motor Carrier Compliance Program

Report 98-54, February 1999

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Report Summary

  • The Legislature cannot use the program's current PB² measures to assess its effectiveness in preventing unsafe and overweight trucks from operating in Florida. The program does not currently know how prevalent these problems are in the state.
  • The program exceeded one of its three performance standards for the level of services it provides (outputs). Using a new weigh-in-motion fixed scale facility, program staff weighed more vehicles in Fiscal Year 1997-98. However, the program did not meet expectations for conducting safety inspections or weighing vehicles with portable scales because it shifted its emphasis to commercial vehicle traffic enforcement and its officers spent more time on general law enforcement activities.
  • The program needs additional PB² measures to provide greater accountability for its use of resources. The program needs to develop outcome measures for its commercial motor vehicle safety and weight enforcement activities. Measures are also needed to assess program traffic enforcement activities and to better tie program outputs to its budget request.
  • The program's accountability system meets OPPAGA's expectations in three of four areas (program purpose or goals, data reliability, and reporting of information and its use by management). The program's performance measures need some modifications in order to adequately assess program outcomes and costs. The program will need to develop data to improve its current measures.
  • We provided a copy of our report to the Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation, who concurred, but with some exceptions. (See Appendix C.)

Related Reports
  1. Highway Construction and Engineering and Transportation System Maintenance Programs
    Report 99-29 January 2000
  2. Motor Carrier Compliance Program
    Report 98-86 June 1999
  3. PB2 Performance Report for the Florida Department of Transportation's Programs' Performance for Fiscal Year 1997-98
    Report 98-60 February 1999
  4. PB2 Performance Report for the Transportation System Maintenance Program
    Report 98-59 February 1999
Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
transportation, highway safety, performance-based program budgeting, overweight vehicles, interstate commerce, law enforcement, traffic, safety, accidents, motor carriers, commercial motor vehicles, transportation, trucks, overweight, registration, fuel tax, hazardous materials, traffic enforcement, safety enforcement, weight enforcement, weigh stations, weight-in-motion