Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2014) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2012 Calendar Year 2013* Calendar Year 2014*

(01/01/2014 – 06/30/2014)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 130,171 140,120 72,897

Large Trucks 116,282 125,404 65,504

Buses 14,370 15,200 7,636

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,371 4,290 1,975

Large Trucks 4,103 3,996 1,867

Buses 290 314 126

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 79,663 82,628 40,181

Large Trucks 63,522 65,777 32,336

Buses 17,252 17,746 8,353

*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 2012 Fiscal Year 2013 Fiscal Year 2014 

Federal State Federal State Federal State

● Warning Letters 24,126 20,480 20,546

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations 20,215 17,343 14,897

● Total Investigations Performed 12,366 7,849 9,646 7,697 7,560 7,337

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 909 732 764 676 625 769

Household Goods Investigations 247 1 190 9 160 12

Passenger Carrier Investigations* 1,390 503 935 443 1,055 414

Motor Coach Investigations* 913 213 602 145 812 155

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Serious Violations 10,330 8,063 8,065 7,385 7,271 7,570

Average Number of Serious Violations per Investigation 0.84 1.03 0.84 0.96 0.96 1.03

Total Number of Non-Serious Violations 63,366 33,830 49,524 31,602 44,530 31,854

Average Number of Non-Serious Violations per Investigation 5.12 4.31 5.13 4.11 5.89 4.34

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 5,981 4,985 4,591

● Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 29.59% 28.74% 30.82%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 206 115 86

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 855 771 879

● Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.23% 4.45% 5.90%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,557 1,678 1,412

● Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 47 37 21

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

34,371

(85.94%)

32,890

(88.08%)

32,172

(88.03%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 74.2% 80.1% 80.3%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 14,008 14,153 17,978

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,582,648 3,492,115 3,408,973

● Trucks 128,582 3,329,440 121,937 3,243,146 121,802 3,168,398

HM Trucks 4,055 200,122 4,703 196,973 5,604 191,629

● Buses 11,365 113,261 10,536 116,496 10,224 108,549

Motorcoaches 8,498 27,358 7,870 31,766 7,795 24,942

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,402,940 2,341,027 3,318,083 2,290,815 3,241,165 2,246,695

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 61,943 102,075 64,209 101,951 54,958 100,054

● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.8% 4.9% 20.6% 5.0% 20.9%

● Bus OOS Rate 5.2% 6.8% 5.2% 7.2% 4.9% 7.3%

*Changed to include non-ratable reviews.

**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 24, 2014.