Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2009)

SAFETY OUTCOMES 2007 2008 2009 

● Rate of Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT)* 0.169 0.152** *** 

● Total Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses 5,116 4,525** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Large Trucks 4,822 4,229** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Single-Unit Trucks 1,300 1,159** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Combination-Unit Trucks 3,633 3,151** *** 

 Fatalities Involving Buses  325 307**  *** 

● Rate of Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT) 4.09 3.82 *** 

● Total Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses 124,000 113,000 *** 

 Injuries Involving Large Trucks 101,000 90,000 *** 

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

● Total VMT (millions; includes trucks, buses, and passenger vehicles) 3,032,399 2,973,509** *** 

 Large Truck VMT 227,060 227,458** *** 

 Bus VMT 6,980 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).

DATA QUALITY 2007 Total 2008 Total Oct 08–Sep 09

ACCURACY

● Percentage of FMCSA reported crashes matched to a carrier 94% 96% 97% 

● Percentage of FMCSA reported inspections matched to a carrier 98% 99% 99% 

TIMELINESS

● Percentage of FMCSA crashes reported within 90 days 86% 88% 88% 

● Percentage of FMCSA inspections reported within 21 days 92% 94% 94% 

COMPLETENESS

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

● Percentage of nonfatal crashes reported to FMCSA 86% 86% 80% 

● Percentage of all crash reports with complete driver/vehicle data 69% 84% 94% 

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

FY 2008 Total FY 2009 Total* FY 2010 (Oct-Dec 2009)* 

PROGRAM OUTPUTS 

Federal State Federal State Federal State 

COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (CRs) 

● Total Number of CRs 9,645 5,980 10,288 6,635 2,214 1,485 

 Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,835 938 2,081 1,218 452 239 

 Household Goods Reviews 608 21 557 9 67 1 

 Motor Coach Reviews 1,040 267 1,089 197 181 29 

● Conditional Carrier Reviews 2,304 782 2,444 757 515 174 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits 

 Percent Completed on Time 

3,997 

95% 

33,401 

98% 

3,386 

94% 

34,497 

98% 

642 

98% 

7,810 

99% 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

● Trucks 102,729 3,234,331 109,946 3,316,790 30,203 772,639 

 HM Trucks 4,467 195,360 4,584 217,374 1,102 46,994 

● Buses** 16,375 133,269 16,327 82,412 4,061 16,520 

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

 Trucks (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 74,398 208,503 80,715 206,854 23,830 55,247 

 Buses (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 1,771 599 1,571 528 358 89 

 Northern Border (Canada Domiciled) 250 63,766 230 55,183 28 15,231 

 Southern Border (Mexico Domiciled***) 75,919 145,336 85,056 152,199 24,160 40,105 

● Notice-of-Claim Letters Issued 6,083 6,648 1,670 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 1,015 1,117 273 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,151 1,496 367 

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,288,238 2,270,475 3,374,829 2,264,246 795,664 525,345 

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 51,316 130,937 50,798 80,877 11,610 16,997 

● Truck OOS Rate 6.6% 23.2% 5.8% 22.1% 5.3% 20.4% 

● Bus OOS Rate 4.8% 7.6% 4.2% 7.6% 4.2% 6.9% 

INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS

● HM Package Inspections 6,894 6,715 728 

● Security Contact Reviews 1,797 1,958 397 

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