Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2015) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2013* Calendar Year 2014* Calendar Year 2015* 

(Jan 1, 2015–Jun 30, 2015)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 141,720 153,741 76,260

Large Trucks 126,684 138,579 68,484 

Buses 15,530 15,686 8,034

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,459 4,358 2,066

Large Trucks 4,147 4,104 1,944

Buses 333 282 134

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 83,633 87,301 41,923

Large Trucks 66,312 70,788 33,955 

Buses 18,236 17,670 8,555

*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 Fiscal Year 2013 Fiscal Year 2014 Fiscal Year 2015 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 20,480 20,546 20,463

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 9,645 7,697 17,342 7,578 7,351 14,929 8,178 6,468 14,646

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 764 676 1,440 625 771 1,396 680 766 1,446

Household Goods Investigations 190 9 199 162 13 175 165 13 178

Passenger Carrier Investigations* 934 443 1,377 1,056 417 1,473 928 412 1,340

Motorcoach Investigations* 602 145 747 812 156 968 790 172 962 

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Number of Serious Violations 6,949 6,701 13,650 6,256 6,893 13,149 7,013 6,245 13,258

● Average Number of Serious Violations per Investigation 0.72 0.87 0.79 0.83 0.94 0.88 0.86 0.97 0.91

● Total Number of Non-Serious Violations 50,640 32,286 82,929 45,600 32,606 78,206 49,516 31,445 80,961 

● Average Number of Non-Serious Violations per Investigation 5.25 4.19 4.78 6.02 4.44 5.24 6.05 4.86 5.53

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 4,984 4,588 5,070

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 28.74% 30.73% 34.62% 

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 115 86 59

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 771 878 847

Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.45% 5.88% 5.78% 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,677 1,410 1,306

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 37 20 9

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

32,801

(87.64%) 

32,209 

(85.81%)

31,693

(78.24%) 

● New Entrant Pass Rate 80.0% 80.3% 81.8% 

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 14,153 17,981 17,466

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,492,195 3,437,913 3,376,038

● Trucks 121,937 3,243,215 3,365,152 122,066 3,193,989 3,316,055 120,028 3,134,470 3,254,498

HM Trucks 4,703 196,979 201,682 5,619 192,582 198,201 5,954 184,589 190,543

● Buses 10,536 116,507 127,043 10,307 111,551 121,858 9,900 111,640 121,540 

Motorcoaches 7,870 31,764 39,634 7,833 25,202 33,035 7,541 23,774 31,315

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,318,141 2,290,875 3,264,667 2,265,311 3,202,886 2,202,558

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 64,217 101,962 55,300 103,005 54,205 102,282

● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.6% 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.9% 

● Bus OOS Rate 5.2% 7.3% 4.9% 7.3% 4.8% 7.2% 

*Changed to include non-ratable reviews.

**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 October 23, 2015.