Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2014) 

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

(01/01/2014 – 09/30/2014)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 130,553 141,006 110,110

Large Trucks 116,500 126,022 99,471

Buses 14,537 15,476 11,004

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,393 4,329 2,987

Large Trucks 4,123 4,020 2,827

Buses 292 329 183

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 80,108 83,390 62,728

Large Trucks 63,672 66,120 50,984

Buses 17,552 18,182 12,557

*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 2013 Fiscal Year 2014 Fiscal Year 2015 

(Oct 1, 2014–Dec 31, 2014)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 20,480 20,546 5,183

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 9,645 7,697 17,342 7,572 7,346 14,918 1,625 1,597 3,222

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 764 676 1,440 625 770 1,395 148 184 332

Household Goods Investigations 190 9 199 162 12 174 31 4 35

Passenger Carrier Investigations* 934 443 1,377 1,056 417 1,473 164 108 272

Motor Coach Investigations* 602 145 747 812 156 968 130 31 161

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Serious Violations 8,065 7,385 15,450 7,269 7,587 14,856 1,758 1,731 3,489

● Average Number of Serious Violations per Investigation 0.84 0.96 0.90 0.96 1.03 1.00 1.08 1.08 1.08

● Total Number of Non-Serious Violations 49,524 31,602 81,126 44,568 31,897 76,465 10,118 7,500 17,618

● Average Number of Non-Serious Violations per Investigation 5.13 4.11 4.73 5.88 4.34 5.24 6.23 4.70 5.60

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 4,984 4,589 1,196

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 28.74% 30.76% 37.12%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 115 86 20

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 771 879 215

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.45% 5.89% 6.67%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,677 1,409 353

● Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 37 21 0

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

32,846

(87.97%) 

32,235

(86.97%) 

7,652

(88.76%) 

● New Entrant Pass Rate 80.1% 80.3% 81.2%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 14,153 17,979 4,687

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,492,167 3,417,817 794,363

● Trucks 121,937 3,243,183 3,365,120 121,011 3,176,023 3,298,034 27,701 741,680 769,381

HM Trucks 4,703 196,975 201,678 5,614 191,994 197,608 1,089 42,363 43,452

● Buses 10,536 116,511 127,047 10,290 109,493 119,783 2,565 22,417 24,982

Motorcoaches 7,870 31,766 39,636 7,824 25,088 32,912 1,976 4,436 6,412

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,318,188 2,290,852 3,248,330 2,251,500 758,859 503,470

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 64,219 101,966 55,135 100,958 12,326 20,792

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

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

*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 January 23, 2015.