Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2017) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2015 Calendar Year 2016* Calendar Year 2017* 

(Jan 1, 2017–Mar 31, 2017)

CRASHES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 161,064 165,966 39,781

 Large Trucks 145,310 150,033 35,637

 Buses 16,308 16,476 4,260

FATALITIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 4,726 4,702 1,047

 Large Trucks 4,423 4,422 978

 Buses 326 297 74

INJURIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 89,104 91,328 21,133

 Large Trucks 72,850 74,957 16,695

 Buses 17,349 17,624 4,708

*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 2015 Fiscal Year 2016 Fiscal Year 2017 

(Oct 1, 2016–Jun 30, 2017) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

 ● Warning Letters 20,463 34,670 21,047

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Investigations Performed* 8,148 6,452 14,600 7,805 6,271 14,076 6,277 4,762 11,039

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 681 766 1,447 782 804 1,586 554 590 1,144

 Household Goods Investigations 162 13 175 165 10 175 140 10 150

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 917 334 1,251 836 428 1,264 853 295 1,148

 Motorcoach Investigations 804 163 967 725 223 948 752 156 908

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS**

 ● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,064 5,996 13,060 7,176 5,776 12,952 5,378 3,979 9,357

 ● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.87 0.93 0.89 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.86 0.84 0.85

 ● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 49,395 31,672 81,067 47,497 31,998 79,495 37,399 25,462 62,861

 ● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.06 4.91 5.55 6.09 5.10 5.65 5.96 5.35 5.70

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

 ● Notice of Claims (NOC)*** 5,066 4,970 3,692 

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 34.7% 35.3% 33.4% 

 ● Notice of Violations (NOV) 59 68 62

 ● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 637 705 450

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.4% 5.0% 4.1% 

 ● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,132 1,368 937

 ● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 7 9 3 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS****

 ● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

39,920

(77.0%)

38,110 

(81.9%) 

21,171

(90.3%)

 ● New Entrant Pass Rate 84.1% 88.2% 89.3% 

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,470 13,085 9,695 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,384,358 3,418,659 2,534,138

 ● Trucks 120,624 3,141,781 3,262,405 110,744 3,184,161 3,294,905 74,254 2,370,873 2,445,127

 HM Trucks 5,983 185,003 190,986 6,259 193,905 200,164 4,488 144,481 148,969

 ● Buses 10,003 111,950 121,953 13,292 110,462 123,754 9,291 79,720 89,011

 Motorcoaches 7,589 23,818 31,407 10,435 21,492 31,927 7,443 13,206 20,649

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

 ● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,210,256 2,206,776 3,247,133 2,245,512 2,414,313 1,677,992

 ● Total Number of Bus Inspections 54,346 102,670 53,612 102,675 36,250 74,931

 ● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.9% 4.9% 20.7% 5.0% 21.0% 

 ● Bus OOS Rate 4.7% 7.2% 4.3% 6.7% 4.7% 6.5% 

*Excludes terminal reviews. The counts will be different from prior reports.

**Methodology for counting acute/critical violations has been modified. The counts will be different from prior reports.

***Includes both closed and open enforcements; excludes enforcement as a result of an inspection.

****New Entrant Safety Audits count both offsite and onsite safety audit. The counts will be different from prior reports.

Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of July 28, 2017.