Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 

(as of December 31, 2023) 

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

(Jan. 1, 2023 – Sep. 30, 2023)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 184,533 183,231 125,413

 Large Trucks 171,547 168,738 115,437

 Buses 13,445 15,054 10,371

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 6,061 5,627 3,658

 Large Trucks 5,817 5,405 3,506

 Buses 283 248 167

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 92,009 88,884 63,317

 Large Trucks 80,941 76,429 54,286

 Buses 11,774 13,285 9,615

*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 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 31,430 22,283 9,348

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 8,301 4,259 12,560 8,009 4,557 12,566 1,693 1,005 2,698

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 521 465 986 463 615 1,078 109 164 273

 Household Goods Investigations 148 11 159 149 24 173 10 0 10

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 433 198 631 697 173 870 90 41 131

 Motorcoach Investigations 381 115 496 614 88 702 74 28 102

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 5,735 4,455 10,190 5,337 5,224 10,561 1,359 1,253 2,612

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation 0.69 1.05 0.81 0.67 1.15 0.84 0.80 1.25 0.97

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 40,465 22,395 62,860 37,762 24,522 62,284 8,405 5,433 13,838

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.87 5.26 5.00 4.71 5.38 4.96 4.96 5.41 5.13

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 3,268 363 3,631 3,248 437 3,685 787 111 898

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 39.4% 8.5% 28.9% 40.6% 9.6% 29.3% 46.5% 11.0% 33.3%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 516 538 134

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit 

 OOS Orders 4.1% 4.3% 5.0%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 821 1,303 294

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 7 1 0

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 6 2 0

● Conditional Ratings 1,915 2,118 546

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

62,162

(62.2%)

60,124

(50.9%)

13,283

(62.4%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 92.4% 91.4% 90.9%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact,

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 24,364 36,269 9,950

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,945,259 3,032,063 694,544

● Trucks 74,397 2,776,367 2,850,764 70,804 2,860,833 2,931,637 15,903 655,161 671,064

HM Trucks 6,169 164,031 170,200 5,252 166,562 171,814 831 40,025 40,856

● Buses 6,962 87,533 94,495 7,642 92,784 100,426 1,483 21,997 23,480

Motorcoaches 5,468 10,926 16,394 4,821 12,776 17,597 876 3,073 3,949

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,809,070 1,918,294 2,890,715 1,928,099 662,443 432,225

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 31,544 83,522 37,217 85,816 10,444 20,203

● Truck OOS Rate 6.8% 23.2% 6.6% 23.2% 6.2% 23.4%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.2% 4.9% 3.6% 5.2% 2.8% 0.0%

*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 26, 2024.