Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2023) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2020* CY 2021* CY 2022*

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 156,772 183,371 180,523

 Large Trucks 147,005 170,439 166,260

 Buses 10,131 13,385 14,814

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,190 5,655 5,384

 Large Trucks 4,987 5,426 5,171

 Buses 225 265 238

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 77,427 91,155 87,490

 Large Trucks 68,715 80,113 75,205

 Buses 9,158 11,717 13,107

*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 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 

(Oct. 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,702 31,430 16,597

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,563 4,333 11,896 8,302 4,257 12,559 3,909 2,200 6,109

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 342 448 790 521 465 986 224 296 520

 Household Goods Investigations 55 4 59 148 11 159 76 14 90

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 241 181 422 433 198 631 265 68 333

 Motorcoach Investigations 160 90 250 381 115 496 238 37 275

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,887 4,061 8,948 5,736 4,454 10,190 2,681 2,414 5,095

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per 

Investigation 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.69 1.05 0.81 0.69 1.10 0.83

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 35,668 21,990 57,658 40,475 22,390 62,865 18,778 11,803 30,581

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical 

Violation per Investigation 4.72 5.08 4.85 4.88 5.26 5.01 4.80 5.37 5.01

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,284 313 2,597 3,268 363 3,631 1,723 234 1,957

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.5% 28.9% 44.1% 10.6% 32.0%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 330 516 253

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS 

Orders 2.8% 4.1% 4.1%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 473 821 626

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 1 7 1

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 12 6 0

● Conditional Ratings 1,547 1,911 1,020

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

44,393

(86.3%)

62,158

(62.4%)

30,814

(50.5%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 92.4% 92.4% 91.8%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No 

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety 

Audit) 15,416 24,363 16,628

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,877,683 2,944,565 1,468,924

● Trucks 30,624 2,761,223 2,791,847 74,385 2,775,723 2,850,108 33,886 1,387,921 1,421,807

 HM Trucks 4,147 167,532 171,679 6,164 163,981 170,145 2,526 80,313 82,839

● Buses 1,939 83,897 85,836 6,954 87,503 94,457 3,692 43,425 47,117

 Motorcoaches 1,312 9,535 10.847 5,454 10,919 16,373 2,856 6,091 8,947

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,743,730 1,890,539 2,808,438 1,917,928 1,402,199 926,668

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 21,455 79,554 31,531 83,487 18,713 39,591

● Truck OOS Rate 5.9% 21.8% 6.8% 23.2% 6.8% 23.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.6% 4.2% 4.2% 4.9% 3.3% 4.6%

*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 April 28, 2023.