TACT - Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

What is TACT?

The Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) program is a high-visibility traffic enforcement program. It uses communication, enforcement, evaluation activities, and high-risk corridors to reduce fatalities and injuries from unsafe driving behaviors by passenger vehicles and commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).

Purpose

TACT provides a research-based safety model that can be replicated by States when conducting a high-visibility traffic enforcement program.

Mission

The mission of the TACT program is to reduce CMV-related crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

Strategy

The TACT program combines outreach, education, and evaluation with targeted enforcement activities to raise awareness among passenger vehicle and CMV drivers about safe driving behaviors. Unsafe driving behaviors may include, but are not limited to:

• unsafe lane changes,
• tailgating,
• failing to signal lane changes,
• failing to yield the right of way,
• speeding, and
• aggressive driving (a combination of two or more behaviors).

About the TACT State Peer Exchange Network (T-SPEN)

The TACT State Peer Exchange Network (T-SPEN) is a group of stakeholders participating in the TACT program who are taking the lead in sharing approaches to save lives by reducing crashes between passenger vehicles and CMVs. The States currently participating in T-SPEN include Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

The vision of T-SPEN is to be an advocate and serve as the national resource and information source for TACT programs. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration serves as the clearinghouse for all TACT information.

The mission of T-SPEN is to support the sharing of lessons learned among TACT States; bring Federal, State, and local resources together to educate the public about how to operate safely around large trucks; and to find the best approaches to save lives.

Latest Research

The TACT program provides a research-based safety model that can be replicated by States when conducting a high-visibility traffic enforcement program.

From 2004 through 2006, in the United States, 15,470 people were killed in crashes involving at least one large truck, and 336,000 people were injured in large truck crashes. During the same period, 1,242,000 large trucks were involved in crashes. Over 70 percent of the deaths and injuries in these 3 years were a result of collisions between passenger vehicles and CMVs.

TACT Safety Partners

American Trucking Associations
Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Federal Highway Administration
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Governor's Highway Safety Representatives
International Association of Chiefs of Police
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Safety Council
National Sheriff's Association
State Patrol and State Police

TACT Forum

T-SPEN is planning the first TACT Forum from July 14-17, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The TACT Forum will be offered to a limited number of States having the highest number of fatalities, injuries, and crashes involving passenger vehicles and CMVs.

Visit www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/tact/ for the latest TACT information and events around the Nation!

Contact Us

For States interested in participating in the TACT Program, please contact your FMCSA Division Administrator or send an e-mail to tactinfo@dot.gov.

To contact FMCSA field offices, please visit www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/contact/offices/displayfieldroster.asp.

The mailing address for TACT:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Attn: Gladys M. Cole
TACT Project Director
Office of Enforcement and Program Delivery
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, W63-314
Washington, DC 20590

FMCSA-ESO-08-0004, March 2008