Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2022)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2020* CY 2021* CY 2022*

(Jan. 1, 2022 – Mar. 31, 2022)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 156,667 181,181 44,142

Large Trucks 146,894 168,377 40,393

Buses 10,137 13,258 3,864

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,129 5,496 1,227

Large Trucks 4,927 5,274 1,175

Buses 224 257 55

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 77,344 89,873 19,777

Large Trucks 68,623 78,943 16,743

Buses 9,167 11,602 3,182

*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 2020 FY 2021

FY 2022

(Oct 1. 2021 – June 30, 2022)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 22,686 26,702 20,954

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 7,350 4,725 12,075 7,563 4,333 11,896 6,214 3,085 9,299

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 341 505 846 342 448 790 366 341 707

Household Goods Investigations 83 10 93 55 4 59 124 9 133

Passenger Carrier Investigations 401 212 613 241 181 422 330 142 472

Motorcoach Investigations 315 105 420 160 90 250 286 90 376

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,716 3,977 8,693 4,887 4,063 8,950 4,117 3,184 7,301

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation 0.64 0.84 0.72 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.66 1.03 0.79

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 32,280 20,897 53,177 35,668 21,988 57,656 29,474 16,276 45,750

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.39 4.42 4.40 4.72 5.07 4.85 4.74 5.28 4.92

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,207 343 2,550 2,284 313 2,597 2,447 258 2,705

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.0% 7.3% 21.1% 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.4% 29.1%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 310 330 375

Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit 

OOS Orders 2.6% 2.8% 4.0%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 801 473 579

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 0 2 8

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 18 9

● Conditional Ratings 1,665 1,544 1,446

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

40,723

(87.8%)

44,389

(86.5%)

45,774

(68.6%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 91.7% 92.4% 92.5%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 15,755 15,416 16,703

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,727,625 2,877,409 2,140,603

● Trucks 45,197 2,595,821 2,641,018 30,624 2,760,987 2,791,611 52,470 2,019,060 2,071,530

HM Trucks 2,891 151,192 154,083 4,147 167,513 171,660 4,614 123,925 128,539

● Buses 5,452 81,155 86,607 1,939 83,859 85,798 4,569 64,504 69,073

Motorcoaches 4,607 9,880 14,487 1,312 9,535 10,847 3,466 7,704 11,170

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,590,262 1,782,223 2,743,511 1,890,358 2,041,268 1,402,396

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 23,739 78,300 21,421 79,526 22,111 62,083

● Truck OOS Rate 5.2% 21.3% 5.9% 21.8% 6.8% 23.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.5% 4.7% 4.6% 4.2% 4.4% 5.0%

*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 July 29, 2022.