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Record W7111060652 · doi:10.13023/ktc.rr.2026.11

IRP Commercial Trailer Data Feasibility Study

2025· report· W7111060652 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUKnowledge (University of Kentucky) · 2025
Typereport
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicTransport Systems and Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrailerLicenseJurisdictionLaw enforcementEnforcementIdentification (biology)Data collection

Abstract

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This study evaluates the feasibility for developing and maintaining a comprehensive tractor truck trailer database. The commercial motor vehicle (CMV) community currently lacks a cross-jurisdictional, centralized repository for commercial trailers registered in United States and Canadian jurisdictions. Existing federal databases provide information on interstate commercial motor carriers, vehicles, and drivers but exclude trailers. Similarly, IRP and IFTA do not collect trailer-level data, and trailer data is displayed inconsistently across its customer base. Approximately one fifth of violations in Kentucky during inspections from 2020 to 2022 were attributed to trailers, including worn tires, inadequate brakes or improper registration. The rise of organized theft affecting rail and trucking operations requires countermeasures such as incorporating better data on trailers and improving federal coordination. Law enforcement, auditors, and safety administrators experience fragmented processes and data limitations. This study examined the operational, safety, and administrative implications of such a database while also assessing technical feasibility, stakeholder perspectives, and policy considerations. Researchers circulated two surveys to law enforcement officials and jurisdictional registration agencies. Law enforcement emphasized the importance of license plate numbers, VINS, make and year, jurisdiction and expiration data. Jurisdiction agencies indicated they obtain trailer data through registrant submissions or through third party agents such as county offices. The surveys illustrated the need for a centralized commercial trailer database, standardized across different existing IT systems. The findings support a centralized CMV trailer repository to potentially yield measurable safety and credentialing benefits, allow for more consistent fee collection and improve identification of unsafe or stolen trailers.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.430
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0050.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.099
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it