Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2009)

SAFETY OUTCOMES 2006 2007 2008 

● Rate of Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT)* 0.177 0.169 0.152** 

● Total Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses 5,347 5,116 4,525** 

 Fatalities Involving Large Trucks 5,027 4,822 4,229** 

 Fatalities Involving Single-Unit Trucks 1,339 1,300 1,159** 

 Fatalities Involving Combination-Unit Trucks 3,776 3,633 3,151** 

 Fatalities Involving Buses*** 337 325 307** 

● Rate of Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT) 4.17 4.09 3.82 

● Total Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses 126,000 124,000 113,000 

 Injuries Involving Large Trucks 106,000 101,000 90,000 

 Injuries Involving Buses 21,000 24,000 24,000 

● Total VMT (millions; includes trucks, buses, and passenger vehicles) 3,014,371 3,032,399 2,973,509** 

 Large Truck VMT 222,513 227,060 227,458** 

 Bus VMT 6,783 6,980 7,114** 

*Fatality Rate Formula: Fatality rate = [(Number of fatalities involving large trucks and buses / Total VMT) x 100]. **Preliminary. 

***Includes all occupants and nonoccupants killed in all bus crashes. 

Note: Individual subtotals may not add to totals due to the potential for double counting (e.g., fatalities or injuries in a truck-bus crash). 

Sources: NHTSA, fatalities and injuries; FHWA, vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

DATA QUALITY 2007 2008 Jul 08–Jun 09

ACCURACY

● Percentage of FMCSA reported crashes matched to a carrier 94% 96% 96% 

● Percentage of FMCSA reported inspections matched to a carrier 98% 99% 99% 

TIMELINESS

● Percentage of FMCSA crashes reported within 90 days 86% 88% 89% 

● Percentage of FMCSA inspections reported within 21 days 92% 94% 94% 

COMPLETENESS

● Percentage of fatal crashes reported to FMCSA 100% 100% 100% 

● Percentage of nonfatal crashes reported to FMCSA 86% 86% 83% 

● Percentage of all crash reports with complete driver/vehicle data 69% 84% 92% 

Sources: MCMIS (State-reported data); NHTSA (fatal crash data). For details, see www.ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/DataQuality.

FY 2007 Total FY 2008 Total* FY 2009 Total* 

PROGRAM OUTPUTS 

Federal State Federal State Federal State 

COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (CRs) 

● Total Number of CRs 10,256 5,859 9,645 5,980 10,285 6,632 

 Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,973 808 1,835 938 2,081 1,217 

 Household Goods Reviews 489 9 608 21 557 9 

 Motor Coach Reviews 1,041 192 1,040 267 1,089 197 

● Conditional Carrier Reviews 2,634 784 2,304 782 2,444 757 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits 

 Percent Completed on Time 

5,706 

95% 

32,620 

98% 

3,997 

95% 

33,401 

98% 

3,377 

95% 

34,452 

99% 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

● Trucks 92,900 3,135,368 102,725 3,234,331 110,131 3,303,260 

 HM Trucks 4,453 194,668 4,467 195,360 4,612 216,853 

● Buses** 21,644 126,223 16,375 133,269 16,395 81,357 

● At U.S. Borders (counts based on Census data)

 Trucks (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 63,898 212,083 74,398 208,503 80,918 206,058 

 Buses (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 2,647 740 1,771 599 1,571 527 

 Northern Border (Canada Domiciled) 321 63,833 250 63,766 230 55,169 

 Southern Border (Mexico Domiciled***) 66,224 148,990 75,919 145,336 85,259 151,416 

● Notice-of-Claim Letters Issued 5,905 6,083 6,650 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 774 1,015 1,122 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,045 1,151 1,497 

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,172,923 2,263,702 3,287,998 2,270,306 3,361,980 2,254,551 

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 54,854 125,926 51,313 130,937 50,820 79,768 

● Truck OOS Rate 6.9% 23.2% 6.6% 23.2% 5.8% 22.1% 

● Bus OOS Rate 3.7% 7.9% 4.8% 7.6% 4.3% 7.6% 

INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS

● HM Package Inspections 7,894 6,894 6,816 

● Security Contact Reviews 2,066 1,797 1,958 

*Preliminary. **No level 7 school bus inspections reported. ***Mexico-domiciled trucks or buses operating in the U.S. Commercial Zone only.