Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(As of December 31, 2019)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2017* CY 2018*

CY 2019*

(Jan 1, 2019 – Sept 30, 2019)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 171,337 182,008 128,739

 Large Trucks 154,688 164,925 116,904

 Buses 17,212 17,718 12,284

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,124 5,216 3,543

 Large Trucks 4,858 4,946 3,372

 Buses 284 312 194

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 93,475 97,272 68,851

 Large Trucks 76,012 80,150 57,330

 Buses 18,387 18,384 12,372

*States are expected to report crash data to FMCSA within 90 days of the crash. Data are considered preliminary for 22 months to allow for changes.

Note: Individual subtotals may not add to totals due to the potential for double counting (e.g., crashes involving both a truck and bus).

PROGRAM OUTPUTS

FY 2018 FY 2019

FY 2020

(Oct 01, 2019-Dec 31, 2019

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 30,476 26,379 6,539

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 8,239 6,135 14,374 7,609 5,482 13,091 1,828 1,300 3,128

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 632 832 1,464 596 757 1,353 146 196 342

 Household Goods Investigations 155 17 172 131 8 139 28 7 35

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 885 299 1,184 868 260 1,128 183 58 241

 Motorcoach Investigations 760 170 930 763 152 915 165 38 203

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,759 5,388 12,147 6,304 5,262 11,566 1,502 1,251 2,753

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.82 0.88 0.85 0.83 0.96 0.88 0.82 0.96 0.88

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,030 32,706 79,736 39,896 28,396 68,292 8,728 6,352 15,080

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violation per 

Investigation

5.71 5.33 5.55 5.24 5.18 5.22 4.77 4.89 4.82

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) 3,771 589 4,360 3,188 455 3,643 660 98 758

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 45.8% 9.6% 30.3% 41.9% 8.3% 27.8% 36.1% 7.5% 24.2%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 570 570 101

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.0% 4.4% 3.2%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,324 1,179 269

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 0 0

● Conditional Ratings 2,925 2,610 603

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

36,758

(92.14%)

39,486

(90.47%)

9,797

(91.04%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 89.8% 88.2% 88.9%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact,

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 12,338 14,360 3,993

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,533,742 3,469,656 795,090

● Trucks 115,466 3,298,448 3,413,914 99,271 3,251,504 3,350,775 21,422 747,977 769,399

 HM Trucks 6,464 194,585 201,049 6,307 199,563 205,807 1,307 42,788 44,095

● Buses 11,339 108,489 119,828 11,773 107,108 118,881 2,737 22,954 25,691

 Motorcoaches 9,078 19,450 28,528 9,455 17,916 27,371 2,378 3,696 6,074

DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,370,101 2,320,989 3,307,542 2,286,767 757,875 521,790

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 50,435 99,557 49,535 99,378 10,205 21,661

● Truck OOS Rate 4.8% 21.4% 5.0% 21.3% 5.3% 2.1%

● Bus OOS Rate 5.0% 6.5% 4.8% 6.5% 4.7% 5.9%

*Includes both closed and open enforcements; excludes enforcement as a result of an inspection. Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of January 31, 2020.