Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2022)

CY 2021*

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 182,025 156,389 180,316

Large Trucks 164,786 146,633 167,684

Buses 17,889 10,122 13,085

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,353 4,893 5,414

Large Trucks 5,082 4,701 5,197

Buses 300 214 252

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 98,057 77,185 89,313

Large Trucks 81,320 68,497 78,541

Buses 17,943 9,141 11,438

*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

(Oct 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 22,686 26,702 14,777

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 7,351 4,725 12,076 7,563 4,333 11,896 4,123 2,055 6,178

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 341 505 846 342 448 790 258 227 485

Household Goods Investigations 83 10 93 55 4 59 85 7 92

Passenger Carrier Investigations 401 212 613 241 181 422 158 105 263

Motorcoach Investigations 315 105 420 160 90 250 133 62 195

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,711 3,974 8,685 4,881 4,060 8,941 2,801 2,175 4,976

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation 0.64 0.84 0.72 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.68 1.06 0.81

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 32,286 20,900 53,186 35,674 21,991 57,665 19,579 10,964 30,543

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.39 4.42 4.40 4.72 5.08 4.85 4.75 5.34 4.94

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,207 343 2,550 2,284 313 2,597 1,741 167 1,908

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.0% 7.3% 21.1% 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 42.2% 8.1% 30.9%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 310 330 255

Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS

Orders 2.6% 2.8% 4.1%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 801 473 373

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 0 2 1

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 18 3

● Conditional Ratings 1,664 1,544 899

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

40,723

(87.9%)

44,381

(86.7%)

29,312

(75.2%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 91.7% 92.4% 92.5%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety

Audit) 15,755 15,415 10,344

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,727,504 2,877,063 1,368,270

● Trucks 45,189 2,595,752 2,640,941 30,621 2,760,679 2,791,300 29,755 1,297,675 1,327,430

HM Trucks 2,891 151,181 154,072 4,147 167,491 171,638 2,418 77,780 80,198

● Buses 5,452 81,111 86,563 1,939 83,824 85,763 1,965 38,875 40,840

Motorcoaches 4,607 9,847 14,454 1,312 9,523 10,835 1,461 4,675 6,136

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,590,195 1,782,157 2,743,224 1,890,155 1,308,211 885,434

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 23,736 78,259 21,419 79,493 12,615 37,156

● Truck OOS Rate 5.2% 21.3% 5.9% 21.8% 6.7% 22.7%

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

*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 Apr 29, 2022.

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2019* CY 2020*