Ask Georgia to Evaluate a Safe Miles Recognition Pilot for Commercial Drivers
The Issue
To Georgia’s transportation, public-safety and legislative leaders:
Commercial truck drivers are accountable for inspections, violations and reportable crashes recorded during their careers. Those records serve important safety purposes, but they may not fully communicate the safe mileage accumulated between events, improvement over time, differences between isolated and repeated conduct, warning-versus-citation status, officially determined crash preventability or the different operating conditions faced by local, regional and over-the-road drivers.
We are asking Georgia leaders to formally evaluate the Safe Miles Incentive Program, or SMIP, and determine whether a limited, voluntary pilot could supplement existing safety information with a more complete and responsibly verified view of driver performance.
SMIP is not a request to erase legitimate violations, conceal unsafe conduct, weaken enforcement or automatically change federal PSP records. It is a proposal for testing whether verified safe mileage, recurrence, improvement, operating type and officially supported event context can be examined alongside existing records.
SMIP development has already produced a Georgia public-data baseline containing more than 212,000 inspection events. That work demonstrates what public FMCSA data can show, but it also reveals important gaps. Public data alone cannot create complete driver-level histories, verify individual safe mileage or provide every circumstance surrounding an inspection or crash.
We respectfully request that appropriate Georgia stakeholders:
Review the SMIP evidence brief and public-data findings.
Convene drivers, carriers, safety professionals, insurers and relevant public agencies.
Evaluate the availability, legality and privacy requirements of the necessary data.
Conduct retrospective testing before assigning real-world consequences.
Consider a limited, voluntary Georgia pilot if the evidence supports proceeding.
Publish findings explaining whether and how a fair driver-safety recognition model could be tested.
Signing this petition does not endorse a final formula or predetermined outcome. It supports a transparent evaluation of whether accountability and verified safe performance can be represented together.
Safe miles should count, and the complete record should matter.
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The Issue
To Georgia’s transportation, public-safety and legislative leaders:
Commercial truck drivers are accountable for inspections, violations and reportable crashes recorded during their careers. Those records serve important safety purposes, but they may not fully communicate the safe mileage accumulated between events, improvement over time, differences between isolated and repeated conduct, warning-versus-citation status, officially determined crash preventability or the different operating conditions faced by local, regional and over-the-road drivers.
We are asking Georgia leaders to formally evaluate the Safe Miles Incentive Program, or SMIP, and determine whether a limited, voluntary pilot could supplement existing safety information with a more complete and responsibly verified view of driver performance.
SMIP is not a request to erase legitimate violations, conceal unsafe conduct, weaken enforcement or automatically change federal PSP records. It is a proposal for testing whether verified safe mileage, recurrence, improvement, operating type and officially supported event context can be examined alongside existing records.
SMIP development has already produced a Georgia public-data baseline containing more than 212,000 inspection events. That work demonstrates what public FMCSA data can show, but it also reveals important gaps. Public data alone cannot create complete driver-level histories, verify individual safe mileage or provide every circumstance surrounding an inspection or crash.
We respectfully request that appropriate Georgia stakeholders:
Review the SMIP evidence brief and public-data findings.
Convene drivers, carriers, safety professionals, insurers and relevant public agencies.
Evaluate the availability, legality and privacy requirements of the necessary data.
Conduct retrospective testing before assigning real-world consequences.
Consider a limited, voluntary Georgia pilot if the evidence supports proceeding.
Publish findings explaining whether and how a fair driver-safety recognition model could be tested.
Signing this petition does not endorse a final formula or predetermined outcome. It supports a transparent evaluation of whether accountability and verified safe performance can be represented together.
Safe miles should count, and the complete record should matter.
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Petition created on September 5, 2026