Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2015) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2013 Calendar Year 2014 Calendar Year 2015 

(Jan 1, 2015–Sep 30, 2015)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 141,851 153,999 113,670

Large Trucks 126,813 138,799 102,755

Buses 15,532 15,728 11,292

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,463 4,384 3,226

Large Trucks 4,150 4,127 3,031

Buses 334 285 212

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 83,691 87,531 63,159

Large Trucks 66,379 70,979 51,850

Buses 18,227 17,711 12,108

*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 2014 Fiscal Year 2015 Fiscal Year 2016

(Oct 1, 2015–Dec 31, 2015)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 20,546 20,463 5,379

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,578 7,351 14,929 8,185 6,481 14,666 1,832 1,396 3,228

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 625 771 1,396 681 766 1,447 187 186 373

Household Goods Investigations 158 13 171 164 13 177 51 2 53

Passenger Carrier Investigations* 1,029 362 1,391 919 336 1,255 126 80 206

Motorcoach Investigations* 843 153 996 805 165 970 109 47 156

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,256 6,893 13,149 7,021 6,254 13,275 1,781 1,495 3,276

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.83 0.94 0.88 0.86 0.96 0.91 0.97 1.07 1.01

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 45,600 32,606 78,026 49,560 31,492 81,052 11,153 6,819 17,972

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.02 4.44 5.24 6.05 4.86 5.53 6.09 4.88 5.57

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 4,585 5,067 1,187

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.71% 34.55% 36.77%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 86 59 7 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 878 847 247

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 5.88% 5.78% 7.65%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,408 1,306 317

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 20 9 2 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

32,199

(85.66%)

31,729

(77.65%)

5,308

(81.56%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 80.3% 81.8% 83.6%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,981 17,466 3,809

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,347,837 3,383,211 1,015,888

● Trucks 122,078 3,193,903 3,315,981 120,442 3,140,891 3,261,333 35,014 948,451 983,465

HM Trucks 5,619 192,563 198,182 5,979 184,924 190,903 1,395 57,189 58,584

● Buses 10,308 111,548 121,856 9,938 111,940 121,878 3,151 29,272 32,423

Motorcoaches 7,834 25,202 33,036 7,564 23,814 31,378 2,451 5,616 8,067

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,264,592 2,265,228 3,209,232 2,206,083 972,019 657,301

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 55,298 103,004 54,325 102,597 14,405 27,336

● Truck OOS Rate 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.9% 4.8% 20.5%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.9% 7.3% 4.8% 7.2% 4.0% 6.4%

*Passenger carrier and motorcoach investigation data have been changed to be based on the SMS definition at time of review.

**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 January 29, 2016.