Lesson 3: Configuration: Single-Unit Trucks

FMCSA Crash Data Collection Resource Home Page

1. Configuration and Cargo Body Type

2. Buses Configuration and Cargo Body

3. Single-Unit Trucks

4. Truck Trailers

5. Truck Tractors and Semi-Trailers

6. Other / Light w/ Hazmat Placard

7. Van/Enclosed Box, Cargo Tanks

8. Flatbeds, Dumps

9. Auto Transporters, Concrete, Garbage

10. Grain/Chips/Gravel, Pole Trailers

11. Logging, Intermodal Chassis

12. No Cargo Body, N/A, Vehicle Towing

Single-Unit Trucks:
Are vehicle configurations designed to transport property, where the cargo carrying capability of the vehicle is integral to the body of the vehicle (i.e. - it does not carry its cargo in an attached trailer). These vehicles when greater than 10,000 lbs. GVWR are recorded in the FMCSA SAFETYNET database and grouped based upon number of tires and axles present.

Single-Unit Truck (2 axles, 6 tires)
Single-Unit Truck (3 or more axles)


2 axle, 6 tire, flatbed	2 axle, 6 tire, van/enclosed box


3 axle, van/enclosed box	3 axle, dump truck