Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2020) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2018* CY 2019* CY 2020*

(Jan. 1, 2020–Sept. 30, 2020)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 184,072 181,607 110,693

 Large Trucks 166,856 164,410 103,811

 Buses 17,861 17,845 7,138

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,254 5,064 3,394

 Large Trucks 4,984 4,808 3,260

 Buses 312 284 149

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 98,659 97,780 55,097

 Large Trucks 81,343 81,065 48,787

 Buses 18,628 17,922 6,647

*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 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 

(Oct. 01, 2020 - Dec. 31, 2020)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,379 22,686 6,083

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS * ● Total Investigations Performed 7,611 5,486 13,097 7,345 4,717 12,062 1,524 991 2,515

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 596 758 1,354 341 505 846 64 88 152

 Household Goods Investigations 131 8 139 82 10 92 6 0 6

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 869 260 1,129 401 212 613 4 24 28

 Motorcoach Investigations 764 152 916 315 105 420 0 11 11

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,308 5,273 11,581 4,714 3,954 8,668 898 757 1,655

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.83 0.96 0.88 0.64 0.84 0.72 0.59 0.76 0.66

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 39,896 28,416 68,312 32,261 20,867 53,128 6,944 4,489 11,433

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations

per Investigation

5.24 5.18 5.22 4.39 4.42 4.40 4.56 4.53 4.55

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 3,188 455 3,643 2,207 342 2,549 410 77 487

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 41.9% 8.3% 27.8% 30.0% 7.3% 21.1% 26.9% 7.8% 19.4%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 573 310 64

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.4% 2.6% 2.5%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,185 799 132

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 0 0 1

● Conditional Ratings 2,614 1,663 332

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

39,492

(89.7%)

40,714

(88.7%)

9,261

(85.7%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 88.2% 91.7% 92.5%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 14,362 15,753 3,424

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,472,428 2,719,292 659,988

● Trucks 100,695 3,252,739 3,353,434 43,914 2,589,039 2,632,953 353 641,017 641,370

HM Trucks 6,364 199,616 205,980 2,823 150,847 153,670 75 40,470 40,545

● Buses 11,808 107,186 118,994 5,324 81,015 86,339 1 18,617 18,618

Motorcoaches 9,486 17,949 27,435 4,494 9,829 14,323 0 1,996 1,996

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,309,597 2,288,681 2,582,460 1,777,469 631,560 435,157

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 49,550 99,466 23,653 78,075 4,341 17,812

● Truck OOS Rate 5.0% 21.3% 5.2% 21.4% 5.4% 21.2%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.8% 6.5% 4.5% 4.7% 5.2% 3.5%

*Due to the National COVID emergency, FMCSA and partners increased the use of offsite investigations and began implementing focused onsite investigations remotely.

**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 29, 2021.