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Contractor Fleet Safety

Vision Zero is New York City’s policy framework to promote the safety of all road users. Under this framework, city agencies have engaged in a wide variety of efforts to improve safety in road design, transportation policy, and policies for our city fleet. You can read about our city fleet policies on our Fleet Vision Zero page.

To further progress towards Vision Zero, Executive Order 39 of 2024 and Local Law 108 of 2021 extend the safety practices of the NYC City fleet to the fleets of contractors working with the City. This section highlights resources to learn more about these requirements, to what vehicles and drivers they apply, and the benefits to the safety of our streets. Information will be added about how to demonstrate and track compliance as the program is rolled out.

Executive Order 39 of 2024

Executive Order 39 of 2024 applies to vehicles operating on a weekly or more frequent basis in the fulfillment of a contract with a mayoral agency of $2,000,000 or more issued after the effective date of July 1, 2024, as well as the drivers of said vehicles. The requirements fall under these major categories:

Fleet Safety Plan (PDF)

Licensing
LENS (License Event Notification Service) should be used for all NY-licensed drivers in the scope of the executive order.

Training
The course of training is not specified in the executive order, but NYS DMV Approved Point and Insurance Reduction Program (PIRP) Courses would be appropriate for fulfilling the training requirement. Contractors may submit an alternative training program acceptable to the agency holding their contracts.

Crash Tracking
Contractors must notify the contracting agency if a City-contracted vehicle is involved in a crash resulting in bodily injury, fatality, major vehicle damage, or property damage during the performance of a contract.

Surround cameras allow bus and truck operators to view all sides of the vehicle, making up for obstructions to direct vision.
Surround cameras allow bus and truck operators to view all sides of the vehicle, making up for obstructions to direct vision.
City vehicles already cover a large part of our city. By incorporating contractor vehicles as well, we will have a better understanding of the safety of our roadways.
City vehicles already cover a large part of our city. By incorporating contractor vehicles as well, we will have a better understanding of the safety of our roadways.

Truck Surround Cameras
If a truck does not meet the criteria for high vision, which is defined as a truck with a cab-over or cab-forward design allowing the driver to sit in front of the front axle, it must be equipped with surround cameras.

Telematics
At minimum, data regarding the speed and location of City-contracted vehicles during the performance of a contract must be provided to the contracting agency.

Local Law 108 of 2021

Local Law 108 of 2021 requires vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating over 10,000 operating on a weekly or more frequent basis in the fulfillment of a contract with a mayoral agency of $2,000,000 or more to be equipped with side guards.

Side guards have already been installed on many City-contracted vehicles as a part of Local Law 108.
Side guards have already been installed on many City-contracted vehicles as a part of Local Law 108.

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