Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2021)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2018* CY 2019* CY 2020*

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 184,080 181,881 154,714

 Large Trucks 166,863 164,653 145,187

 Buses 17,863 17,878 9,890

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,254 5,316 4,702

 Large Trucks 4,984 5,046 4,519

 Buses 312 299 205

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 98,664 97,991 76,189

 Large Trucks 81,347 81,243 67,693

 Buses 18,629 17,954 8,938

*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 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 

(Oct 01, 2020–Mar 31, 2021) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 26,379 22,686 12,040

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

● Total Investigations Performed 7,611 5,486 13,097 7,350 4,721 12,071 3,686 2,098 5,784

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 596 758 1,354 341 505 846 134 205 339

 Household Goods Investigations 131 8 139 83 10 93 22 0 22

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 869 260 1,129 401 212 613 117 63 180

 Motorcoach Investigations 764 152 916 315 105 420 70 32 102

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,311 5,272 11,583 4,713 3,958 8,671 2,172 1,792 3,964

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.83 0.96 0.88 0.64 0.84 0.72 0.59 0.85 0.69

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 39,893 28,417 68,310 32,281 20,880 53,161 16,441 9,946 26,387

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violation per 

Investigation 5.24 5.18 5.22 4.39 4.42 4.40 4.46 4.74 4.56

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 3,188 455 3,643 2,206 342 2,548 957 150 1,107

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 41.9% 8.3% 27.8% 30.0% 7.2% 21.1% 26.0% 7.1% 19.1%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 573 310 117

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.4% 2.6% 2.0%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,185 801 231

● Carrier imminent Hazard OOS Orders 0 0 2 

● Driver Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 4 11 

● Conditional Ratings 2,615 1,664 631

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

39,492

(89.5%)

40,718

(88.4%)

20,531

(85.7%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 88.2% 91.7% 92.4%

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

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 14,363 15,753 6,731

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,472,487 2,724,916 1,351,610

● Trucks 100,695 3,252,792 3,353,487 43,978 2,594,497 2,638,475 381 1,313,709 1,314,090

 HM Trucks 6,364 199,620 205,984 2,826 151,090 153,916 82 81,857 81,939

● Buses 11,808 107,192 119,000 5,324 81,117 86,441 1 37,519 37,520

 Motorcoaches 9,486 17,954 27,440 4,494 9,849 14,343 0 4,202 4,202

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,309,650 2,288,722 2,587,944 1,780,205 1,293,929 883,889

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 49,552 99,471 23,659 78,178 8,658 35,607

● Truck OOS Rate 5.0% 21.3% 5.2% 21.4% 5.6% 21.4%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.8% 6.5% 4.5% 4.7% 4.7% 3.5%

*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 April 30, 2021.