Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2022) 

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

(Jan. 1, 2022 – Sept. 30, 2022)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 156,761 182,629 131,391

Large Trucks 146,994 169,733 121,144

Buses 10,131 13,349 10,619

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,186 5,631 3,856

Large Trucks 4,983 5,402 3,692

Buses 225 265 179

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 77,428 90,656 64,206

Large Trucks 68,716 79,663 55,284

Buses 9,158 11,663 9,405

*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 

(Oct. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,702 31,430 8,595

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,563 4,333 11,896 8,302 4,256 12,558 1,888 1,027 2,915

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 342 448 790 521 465 986 105 132 237

Household Goods Investigations 55 4 59 148 11 159 16 3 19

Passenger Carrier Investigations 241 181 422 433 198 631 126 32 158

Motorcoach Investigations 160 90 250 381 115 496 112 15 127

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 4,887 4,061 8,948 5,738 4,451 10,189 1,317 1,189 2,506

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per 

Investigation 0.65 0.94 0.75 0.69 1.05 0.81 0.70 1.16 0.86

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 35,668 21,990 57,658 40,473 22,380 62,853 9,060 5,407 14,467

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical

Violation per Investigation 4.72 5.08 4.85 4.88 5.26 5.01 4.80 5.26 4.96

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 2,284 313 2,597 3,268 363 3,631 796 110 906

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.2% 7.2% 21.8% 39.4% 8.5% 28.9% 42.2% 10.7% 31.1%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 330 515 141

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 2.8% 4.1% 4.8%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 474 819 315

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 1 7 1

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 12 6 0

● Conditional Ratings 1,546 1,908 540

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

44,392

(86.3%) 

62,139

(62.5%) 

14,760

(49.1%) 

● New Entrant Pass Rate 92.4% 92.4% 91.5%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No 

Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 15,416 24,363 8,268

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 2,877,668 2,941,766 711,083

● Trucks 30,624 2,761,208 2,791,832 73,333 2,774,182 2,847,515 17,642 671,445 689,087

 HM Trucks 4,147 167,527 171,674 6,130 163,885 170,015 1,295 36,691 37,986

● Buses 1,939 83,897 85,836 6,808 87,443 94,251 2,029 19,967 21,996

Motorcoaches 1,312 9,535 10,847 5,331 10,917 16,248 1,661 3,002 4,663

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 2,743,716 1,890,535 2,805,995 1,916,696 679,480 450,663

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 21,455 79,554 31,366 83,409 8,548 18,365

● Truck OOS Rate 5.9% 21.8% 6.9% 23.2% 6.8% 22.9%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.6% 4.2% 4.3% 4.9% 3.3% 4.6%

*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 27, 2023.