Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2017) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2015* Calendar Year 2016* Calendar Year 2017*

(Jan 1, 2017–Sep 30, 2017)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 161,103 167,237 122,449 

Large Trucks 145,347 151,107 111,067

Buses 16,310 16,681 11,752

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,722 4,900 3,500

Large Trucks 4,420 4,607 3,310

Buses 325 323 202

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 89,100 92,200 67,272

Large Trucks 72,893 75,567 55,135

Buses 17,302 17,924 12,818

*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 Fiscal Year 2016 Fiscal Year 2017 Fiscal Year 2018 

(Oct 1, 2017–Dec 31, 2017)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 34,670 28,293 6,680

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed* 7,805 6,272 14,077 8,518 6,396 14,914 1,845 1,509 3,354

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 782 804 1,586 726 789 1,515 167 188 355

Household Goods Investigations 165 10 175 177 12 189 33 3 36

Passenger Carrier Investigations 836 429 1,265 1,177 416 1,593 165 64 229

Motorcoach Investigations 725 223 948 1,029 193 1,222 138 34 172

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS**

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,147 5,767 12,914 7,181 5,469 12,650 1,534 1,327 2,861

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.84 0.86 0.85 0.83 0.88 0.85

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,526 31,981 79,507 50,005 33,894 83,899 11,127 8,077 19,204

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

Investigation 6.09 5.10 5.65 5.87 5.30 5.63 6.03 5.35 5.73

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)*** 4,969 5,086 1,231

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 35.3% 34.1% 36.7%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 68 111 27

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 707 620 145

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 5.0% 4.2% 4.3%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,369 1,274 344

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 9 4 2

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS****

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

 38,110

 (81.7%)

35,887

 (90.1%)

 8,339

(94.8%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 88.2% 89.2% 91.2%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 13,085 12,505 2,658

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,419,066 3,413,899 825,885

● Trucks 111,063 3,184,231 3,295,294 106,005 3,188,545 3,294,550 27,270 772,607 799,877

HM Trucks 6,292 193,919 200,211 6,331 191,244 197,575 1,328 45,795 47,123

● Buses 13,306 110,466 123,772 12,643 106,706 119,349 2,508 23,500 26,008

Motorcoaches 10,448 21,493 31,941 10,122 18,870 28,992 2,094 4,079 6,173

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,247,507 2,245,859 3,252,928 2,253,690 790,189 537,821

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 53,618 102,692 49,537 99,971 11,385 21,746

● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.7% 5.1% 21.2% 5.0% 21.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.3% 6.7% 4.8% 6.5% 5.5% 6.1%

*Excludes terminal reviews. The counts will be different from prior reports.

**Methodology for counting acute/critical violations has been modified. The counts will be different from prior reports.

***Includes both closed and open enforcements; excludes enforcement as a result of an inspection.

****New Entrant Safety Audits count both offsite and onsite safety audits. The counts will be different from prior reports.

Source: All data from the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of January 26, 2018.