Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2010)

SAFETY OUTCOMES 2008 2009 2010 

● Rate of Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT)* 0.153** 0.121** *** 

● Total Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses 4,545 3,619** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Large Trucks 4,245 3,380** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Single-Unit Trucks 1,173 972** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Combination-Unit Trucks 3,173 2,470** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Buses  311 254**  *** 

● Rate of Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT) 3.82 3.13** *** 

● Total Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses 113,000 93,000 *** 

 Injuries Involving Large Trucks 90,000 74,000 *** 

 Injuries Involving Buses 24,000 20,000 *** 

● Total VMT (millions; includes trucks, buses, and passenger vehicles) 2,973,509** 2,979,321** *** 

 Large Truck VMT 227,458** *** *** 

 Bus VMT 7,114** *** *** 

*Fatality Rate Formula: Fatality rate = [(Number of fatalities involving large trucks and buses / Total VMT) x 100]. **Preliminary. ***Data not available. 

****Includes all occupants and nonoccupants killed in all bus crashes. 

Note: Individual subtotals may not add to totals due to the potential for double counting (e.g., fatalities or injuries in a truck-bus crash). 

Sources: NHTSA, fatalities and injuries; FHWA, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), from April 2010 Traffic Volume Trends.

DATA QUALITY 2008 2009 Oct 2009 - Sep 2010

ACCURACY

● Percentage of FMCSA reported crashes matched to a carrier 96% 98% 98% 

● Percentage of FMCSA reported inspections matched to a carrier 99% 99% 99% 

TIMELINESS

● Percentage of FMCSA crashes reported within 90 days 88% 87% 87% 

● Percentage of FMCSA inspections reported within 21 days 94% 95% 95% 

COMPLETENESS

● Percentage of fatal crashes reported to FMCSA 100% 100% 100% 

● Percentage of nonfatal crashes reported to FMCSA 86% 86% 88% 

● Percentage of all crash reports with complete driver/vehicle data 84% 94% 94% 

Sources: MCMIS (State-reported data); NHTSA (fatal crash data). For details, see www.ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/DataQuality.

PROGRAM OUTPUTS 

FY 2009 Total FY 2010 Total* FY 2011 (Oct-Dec 2010)* 

Federal State Federal State Federal State 

COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (CRs) 

● Total Number of CRs 10,290 6,638 9,311 6,117 1,843 1,286 

 Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 2,082 1,218 1,943 1,108 376 247 

 Household Goods Reviews 557 9 561 6 32 4 

 Motor Coach Reviews 1,090 197 878 164 81 25 

● Conditional Carrier Reviews 2,444 757 2,032 727 357 127 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits 

 (Percent Completed on Time) 

3,386 

(94%) 

34,508 

(98%) 

2,147 

(93%) 

31,967 

(95%) 

201 

(84%) 

6,915 

(97%) 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

● Trucks 110,004 3,321,414 130,866 3,340,752 33,607 794,776 

 HM Trucks 4,588 217,615 5,395 205,254 1,348 46,914 

● Buses** 16,329 82,729 12,302 82,866 2,822 19,284 

● At U.S. Borders (counts based on Census data)

 Trucks (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 80,761 206,940 101,442 227,177 26,877 54,661 

 Buses (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 1,569 530 1,312 441 158 84 

 Northern Border (Canada Domiciled) 231 55,128 195 63,127 16 15,617 

 Southern Border (Mexico Domiciled***) 82,099 152,342 102,559 164,491 27,019 39,128 

● Notice-of-Claim Letters Issued 6,647 7,457 1,709 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 1,118 1,004 227 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,504 1,592 438 

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,379,168 2,267,977 3,422,740 2,328,546 819,059 541,342 

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 50,796 81,146 45,934 82,663 10,247 19,122 

● Truck OOS Rate 5.8% 22.1% 5.3% 20.1% 5.0% 20.2% 

● Bus OOS Rate 4.2% 7.6% 4.9% 6.7% 4.2% 5.9% 

INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS

● HM Package Inspections 6,718 6,611 814 

● Security Contact Reviews 1,959 1,897 242 

*Preliminary. **No level 7 school bus inspections reported. ***Mexico-domiciled trucks or buses operating in the U.S. Commercial Zone only.