Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(As of June 30, 2020)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2018* CY 2019*

CY 2020*

(Jan. 1, 2020 – Mar. 31, 2020)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 183,914 179,509 38,863

 Large Trucks 166,689 162,467 35,283

 Buses 17,869 17,678 3,717

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,249 4,961 992

 Large Trucks 4,979 4,709 933

 Buses 312 280 66

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 98,535 96,113 19,179

 Large Trucks 81,218 79,593 15,897

 Buses 18,629 17,699 3,482

*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 2018 FY 2019

FY 2020

(Oct. 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 30,476 26,379 17,173

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 8,239 6,135 14,374 7,611 5,486 13,097 5,727 3,635 9,362

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 632 832 1,464 596 758 1,354 286 435 721

 Household Goods Investigations 155 17 172 131 8 139 68 10 78

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 885 299 1,184 869 260 1,129 396 166 562

 Motorcoach Investigations 760 170 930 764 152 916 314 92 406

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,759 5,388 12,147 6,302 5,273 11,575 3,709 3,179 6,888

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.82 0.88 0.85 0.83 0.96 0.88 0.65 0.87 0.74

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,030 32,706 79,736 39,902 28,416 68,318 24,977 16,463 41,440

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

Investigation

5.71 5.33 5.55 5.24 5.18 5.22 4.36 4.53 4.43

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) * 3,771 589 4,360 3,188 455 3,643 1,680 275 1,955

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 45.8% 9.6% 30.3% 41.9% 8.3% 27.8% 29.3% 7.6% 20.9%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 572 572 275

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.0% 4.4% 2.9%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,325 1,181 619

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 0 0

● Conditional Ratings 2,928 2,613 1,457

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

36,758

(92.0%)

39,491

(89.9%)

31,352

(90.1%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 89.8% 88.2% 91.3%

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

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 12,338 14,360 12,118

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,533,967 3,471,418 1,958,380

● Trucks 115,466 3,298,673 3,414,139 100,689 3,251,801 3,352,490 42,575 1,849,756 1,892,331

 HM Trucks 6,464 194,601 201,065 6,364 199,591 205,955 2,621 107,231 109,852

● Buses 11,339 108,489 119,828 11,808 107,120 118,928 5,288 60,761 66,049

 Motorcoaches 9,078 19,448 28,526 9,486 17,905 27,391 4,472 7,790 12,262

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,370,326 2,321,128 3,309,212 2,288,393 1,859,574 1,285,759

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 50,437 99,557 49,530 99,424 20,056 58,457

● Truck OOS Rate 4.8% 21.4% 5.0% 21.3% 5.2% 21.2%

● Bus OOS Rate 5.0% 6.5% 4.8% 6.5% 4.4% 4.9%

*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 July 31, 2020.