Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2010)

SAFETY OUTCOMES 2007 2008 2009 

● Rate of Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT)* 0.169 0.152** 0.121** 

● Total Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses 5,116 4,545 3,619** 

 Fatalities Involving Large Trucks 4,822 4,245 3,380** 

 Fatalities Involving Single-Unit Trucks 1,300 1,173 972** 

 Fatalities Involving Combination-Unit Trucks 3,633 3,173 2,470** 

 Fatalities Involving Buses  325 311 254**  

● Rate of Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT) 4.09 3.82 3.12** 

● Total Injuries Involving Large Trucks and Buses 124,000 113,000 93,000 

 Injuries Involving Large Trucks 101,000 90,000 74,000 

 Injuries Involving Buses 24,000 24,000 20,000 

● Total VMT (millions; includes trucks, buses, and passenger vehicles) 3,032,399 2,973,509** 2,979,321** 

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

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

*Fatality Rate Formula: Fatality rate = (Number of fatalities involving large trucks and buses / Total VMT) x 100. **Preliminary. ***Data not available. 

****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 uck-bus crash). tr

Sources: NHTSA, fatalities and injuries; FHWA, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), from April 2010 Traffic Volume Trends.

DATA QUALITY 2008 2009 Apr 2009-Mar 2010

ACCURACY

● Percentage of FMCSA reported crashes matched to a carrier 96% 98% 98% 

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

TIMELINESS

● Percentage of FMCSA crashes reported within 90 days 88% 88% 87% 

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

COMPLETENESS

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

● Percentage of nonfatal crashes reported to FMCSA 86% 78% 75% 

● Percentage of all crash reports with complete driver/vehicle data 84% 94% 94% 

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

FY 2008 Total FY 2009 Total* FY 2010 (Oct 2009-Jun 2010)*

PROGRAM OUTPUTS 

Federal State Federal State Federal State 

COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (CRs) 

● Total Number of CRs 9,645 5,980 10,290 6,635 6,993 4,586 

 Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,835 938 2,082 1,218 1,503 821 

 Household Goods Reviews 608 21 557 9 483 3 

 Motor Coach Reviews 1,040 267 1,090 197 507 87 

● Conditional Carrier Reviews 2,304 782 2,444 757 1,614 574 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits 

 (Percent Completed on Time) 

3,997 

(95%) 

33,403 

(98%) 

3,386 

(94%) 

34,508 

(98%) 

1,578 

(96%) 

22,640 

(98%) 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

● Trucks 102,729 3,234,583 109,989 3,321,327 98,231 2,436,793 

 HM Trucks 4,467 195,359 4,588 217,611 4,074 152,187 

● Buses** 16,375 133,282 16,327 82,732 9,274 56,629 

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

 Trucks (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 74,398 208,538 80,754 207,010 76,319 170,799 

 Buses (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 1,771 599 1,573 530 1,024 318 

 Northern Border (Canada Domiciled) 250 63,773 230 55,111 140 47,460 

 Southern Border (Mexico Domiciled***) 75,919 145,364 82,097 152,429 77,203 123,657 

● Notice-of-Claim Letters Issued 6,083 6,647 5,562 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 1,015 1,117 797 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,151 1,502 1,155 

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,288,238 2,270,475 3,379,065 2,267,916 2,504,696 1,703,176 

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 51,316 130,937 50,808 81,144 33,208 57,158 

● Truck OOS Rate 6.6% 23.2% 5.8% 22.1% 5.2% 19.5% 

● Bus OOS Rate 4.8% 7.6% 4.2% 7.5% 4.6% 6.5% 

INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS

● HM Package Inspections 6,894 6,715 3,875 

● Security Contact Reviews 1,797 1,959 1,206 

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