Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2016) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2014* Calendar Year 2015* Calendar Year 2016*

(Jan 1, 2016–Mar 31, 2016)

CRASHES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 155,408 158,374 38,681

 Large Trucks 140,081 142,912 34,567

 Buses 15,864 16,010 4,251

FATALITIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 4,492 4,558 905

 Large Trucks 4,219 4,280 854

 Buses 301 301 56 

INJURIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 88,260 87,555 20,171

 Large Trucks 71,580 71,604 16,168

 Buses 17,837 17,039 4,336

*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–Jun 30, 2016) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

 ● Warning Letters 20,546 20,463 27,515

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Investigations Performed 7,578 7,352 14,930 8,186 6,483 14,669 5,924 4,486 10,410

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 625 771 1,396 681 766 1,447 579 587 1,166

 Household Goods Investigations 158 13 171 164 13 177 124 7 131 

 Passenger Carrier Investigations* 1,029 362 1,391 918 336 1,254 667 291 958

 Motorcoach Investigations* 843 153 996 805 165 970 578 181 759

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,256 6,858 13,114 7,020 6,229 13,249 5,478 4,643 10,121 

 ● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.83 0.93 0.88 0.86 0.96 0.90 0.92 1.03 0.97

 ● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 45,600 32,648 78,248 49,564 31,519 81,083 35,597 22,920 58,517

 ● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.02 4.44 5.24 6.05 4.86 5.53 6.01 5.11 5.62

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

 ● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 4,584 5,066 3,667 

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.70% 34.54% 35.23% 

 ● Notice of Violations (NOV) 86 59 52

 ● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders*** 684 632 524

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.58% 4.31% 5.03% 

 ● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders*** 1,256 1,128 1,018

 ● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 36 9 5 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

 ● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

32,199

(85.48%) 

31,736 

(77.19%) 

15,707

(82.78%) 

 ● New Entrant Pass Rate 80.3% 81.8% 83.1% 

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,981 17,467 9,748 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,437,808 3,384,025 2,542,648

 ● Trucks 122,082 3,193,865 3,315,947 120,613 3,141,456 3,262,069 83,868 2,366,649 2,450,517

 HM Trucks 5,619 192,559 198,178 5,981 184,991 190,972 4,588 143,225 147,813

 ● Buses 10,312 111,549 121,861 10,003 111,953 121,956 9,811 82,320 92,131

 Motorcoaches 7,838 25,202 33,040 7,589 23,819 31,408 7,642 16,086 23,728

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

 ● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,264,558 2,265,210 3,209,920 2,206,619 2,417,726 1,670,177

 ● Total Number of Bus Inspections 55,298 103,010 54,345 102,674 39,843 77,170 

 ● Truck OOS Rate 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.9% 4.9% 20.7% 

 ● Bus OOS Rate 4.9% 7.3% 4.7% 7.2% 4.2% 6.8% 

*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.

***As of March 31, 2016, counts of Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders and 90-Day No-Pay OOS are now generated from MCMIS as opposed to the Enforcement 

Management Information System.

Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of July 22, 2016.