Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2022)

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

(Jan. 1, 2022 – June 30, 2022)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 156,728 181,486 86,459

Large Trucks 146,953 168,667 79,451

Buses 10,139 13,272 7,259

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,148 5,560 2,476

Large Trucks 4,946 5,332 2,373

Buses 224 264 113

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 77,390 90,061 41,016

Large Trucks 68,666 79,120 35,120

Buses 9,170 11,611 6,205

*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 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 22,686 26,702 31,430

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 7,350 4,725 12,075 7,563 4,333 11,896 8,299 4,246 12,545

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 341 505 846 342 448 790 521 463 984

Household Goods Investigations 83 10 93 55 4 59 148 11 159

Passenger Carrier Investigations 401 212 613 241 181 422 433 198 631

Motorcoach Investigations 315 105 420 160 90 250 381 115 496

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,716 3,975 8,691 4,887 4,061 8,948 5,741 4,434 10,175

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation 0.64 0.84 0.72 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.69 1.04 0.81

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 32,280 20,899 53,179 35,668 21,990 57,658 40,443 22,335 62,778

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.39 4.42 4.40 4.72 5.08 4.85 4.87 5.26 5.00

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,207 343 2,550 2,284 313 2,597 3,269 364 3,633

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.0% 7.3% 21.1% 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.6% 29.0%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 310 330 515

Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit 

OOS Orders 2.6% 2.8% 4.1%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 801 473 817

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 0 2 8

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 8 9

● Conditional Ratings 1,665 1,545 1,907

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

40,723

(87.7%)

44,391

(86.4%)

62,047

(62.8%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 91.7% 92.4% 92.4%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 15,755 15,416 24,363

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,727,630 2,877,570 2,939,207

● Trucks 45,198 2,595,825 2,641,023 30,624 2,761,112 2,791,736 72,910 2,772,414 2,845,324

HM Trucks 2,891 151,192 154,083 4,147 167,534 171,681 6,104 163,836 169,940

● Buses 5,452 81,155 86,607 1,939 83,895 85,834 6.709 87,174 93,883

Motorcoaches 4,607 9,880 14,487 1,312 9,535 10,847 5,239 10,906 16,145

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,590,267 1,782,229 2,743,626 1,890,460 2,804,060 1,915,089

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 23,739 78,300 21,454 79,552 31,311 83,093

● Truck OOS Rate 5.2% 21.3% 5.9% 21.8% 6.9% 23.2%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.5% 4.7% 4.6% 4.2% 4.3% 4.9%

*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 28, 2022.