ICYMI Index: 5 numbers from the week’s top news

In this cold introductory week to 2015, grab a cup of hot chocolate and catch up on the week’s news with the ICYMI Index. Here are 5 numbers from the week’s top news stories. Click the photos or the text links to see the full stories:

The percentage of trucking industry employees in “safety-sensitive positions” that FMCSA says it will randomly drug test in 2015. The 50 percent rate is a continuation of the same rate the agency used in recent years.

The percentage of vehicles placed out of service in 2014’s Brake Safety Week inspection blitz held by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, FMCSA and state enforcers in September. The percentage of vehicles placed OOS jumped to a 5-year high, but the number of trucks and buses inspected in the seven-day period dropped to roughly 65 percent of the number inspected in the preceding two years.