Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2023) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2021* CY 2022* CY 2023* 

(Jan. 1, 2023 – Mar. 31, 2023) 

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 183,874 181,396 41,923

 Large Trucks 170,922 167,028 38,281

 Buses 13,407 14,924 3,795

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,985 5,511 1,063

 Large Trucks 5,746 5,292 1,006

 Buses 277 245 63

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 91,473 87,917 19,570

 Large Trucks 80,435 75,577 16,501

 Buses 11,725 13,171 3,263

*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 – June 30, 2023) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,702 31,430 22,283

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,563 4,333 11,896 8,301 4,258 12,559 5,975 3,397 9,372

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 342 448 790 521 465 986 334 456 790

 Household Goods Investigations 55 4 59 148 11 159 138 24 162

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 241 181 422 433 198 631 448 113 561

 Motorcoach Investigations 160 90 250 381 115 496 412 57 469

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,887 4,061 8,948 5,735 4,455 10,190 3,987 3,829 7,816

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.69 1.05 0.81 0.67 1.13 0.83

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 35,668 21,990 57,658 40,465 22,393 62,858 28,521 18,391 46,912

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.72 5.08 4.85 4.87 5.26 5.01 4.77 5.41 5.01

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,284 313 2,597 3,268 363 3,631 2,454 354 2,808

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.5% 28.9% 41.1% 10.4% 30.0%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 330 516 398

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit 

 OOS Orders 2.8% 4.1% 4.2%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 473 821 955

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 1 7 1 

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 12 6 1 

● Conditional Ratings 1,548 1,912 1,585

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

44,393 

(86.2%)

62,160

(62.3%)

45,320

(50.2%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 92.4% 92.4% 91.6%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety

Audit) 15,416 24,364 25,955

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,877,674 2,944,670 2,263,901

● Trucks 30,624 2,761,214 2,791,838 74,397 2,775,803 2,850,200 53,265 2,133,754 2,187,019

HM Trucks 4,147 167,530 171,677 6,169 163,994 170,163 4,093 127,911 132,004

● Buses 1,939 83,897 85,836 6,962 87,508 94,470 5,861 71,021 76,882

Motorcoaches 1,312 9,535 10,847 5,468 10,919 16,387 3,968 9,525 13,493

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,743,720 1,890,538 2,808,524 1,918,001 2,156,862 1,445,522

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 21,455 79,554 31,535 83,500 29,148 65,333

● Truck OOS Rate 5.9% 21.8% 6.8% 23.2% 6.6% 23.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.6% 4.2% 4.2% 4.9% 3.4% 5.3%

*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 July 28, 2023.