Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2023) 

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

(Jan. 1, 2023 – June 30, 2023) 

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 184,420 182,814 84,015

 Large Trucks 171,439 168,341 77,044

 Buses 13,439 15,034 7,260

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 6,030 5,593 2,328

 Large Trucks 5,787 5,371 2,226

 Buses 281 248 115

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 91,950 88,626 41,458 

 Large Trucks 80,870 76,189 35,348

 Buses 11,773 13,269 6,495

*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 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,702 31,430 22,283

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,563 4,333 11,896 8,301 4,258 12,559 8,009 4,536 12,545

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 342 448 790 521 465 986 463 613 1,076

 Household Goods Investigations 55 4 59 148 11 159 149 24 173

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 241 181 422 433 198 631 697 173 870

 Motorcoach Investigations 160 90 250 381 115 496 614 88 702

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,887 4,063 8,950 5,735 4,455 10,190 5,337 5,203 10,540

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per

Investigation

0.65 0.94 0.75 0.69 1.05 0.81 0.67 1.15 0.84

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 35,668 21,988 57,656 40,465 22,393 62,858 37,763 24,382 62,145

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation

4.72 5.07 4.85 4.87 5.26 5.01 4.72 5.38 4.95

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,284 313 2,597 3,268 363 3,631 3,246 437 3,683

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.5% 28.9% 40.5% 9.6% 29.4%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 330 516 538

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit 

 OOS Orders 2.8% 4.1% 4.3%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 473 821 1,303

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 1 7 1

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 12 6 2

● Conditional Ratings 1,548 1,915 2,114

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

44,393 

(86.2%)

62,162

(62.2%)

60,069

(51.2%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 92.4% 92.4% 91.4%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety

Audit) 15,416 24,364 36,269

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS62139

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,877,692 2,944,795 3,027,945

● Trucks 30,624 2,761,232 2,791,856 74,397 2,775,925 2,850,322 70,441 2,858,001 2,928,442

HM Trucks 4,147 167,530 171,677 6,169 164,013 170,182 5,231 166,294 171,525

● Buses 1,939 83,897 85,836 6,962 87,511 94,473 7,484 92,019 99,503

Motorcoaches 1,312 9,535 10,847 5,468 10,922 16,390 4,704 12,710 17,414

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,743,738 1,890,539 2,808,644 1,918,093 2,888,018 1,925,610

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 21,455 79,554 31,535 83,503 36,924 85,014

● Truck OOS Rate 5.9% 21.8% 6.8% 23.2% 6.6% 23.3%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.6% 4.2% 4.2% 4.9% 3.6% 5.2%

*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 October 27, 2023,