Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(As of December 31, 2018)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2016* Calendar Year 2017* Calendar Year 2018*

(Jan. 1, 2018 – Sep. 30, 2018)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 167,567 170,645 132,116

 Large Trucks 151,383 154,109 120,008

 Buses 16,737 17,058 12,561

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,960 5,057 3,535

 Large Trucks 4,663 4,789 3,370

 Buses 327 285 196

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 92,373 93,060 70,531

 Large Trucks 75,699 75,710 58,448

 Buses 17,967 18,264 12,988

*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 2017 Fiscal Year 2018 Fiscal Year 2019 (Oct. 1, 2018 – Dec. 31, 2018)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 28,293 30,476 6,354

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 8,521 6,402 14,923 8,238 6,134 14,372 1,776 1,414 3,190

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 726 791 1,517 631 833 1,464 142 182 324

 Household Goods Investigations 177 12 189 155 16 171 36 3 39

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 1,177 417 1,594 885 299 1,184 158 50 208

 Motorcoach Investigations 1,029 193 1,222 760 170 930 125 30 155

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,157 5,471 12,628 6,759 5,389 12,148 1,666 1,317 2,983

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.84 0.85 0.85 0.82 0.88 0.85 0.94 0.93 0.94

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 50,036 33,952 83,988 47,023 32,701 79,724 10,165 7,373 17,538

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

Investigation 5.87 5.30 5.63 5.71 5.33 5.55 5.72 5.21 5.50

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)* 4,364 724 5,088 3,771 589 4,360 801 128 929

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 51.2% 11.3% 34.1% 45.8% 9.6% 30.3% 45.1% 9.1% 29.1%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 630 565 146

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.2% 3.9% 4.6%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,279 1,314 266

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 7 4 0

● Conditional Ratings 2,928 2,921 700

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

 35,893

(89.3%) 

36,721

(93.0%)

 8,867

(93.7%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 89.2% 89.8% 89.1%

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

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 12,504 12,338 3,323

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,416,003 3,532,003 806,310

● Trucks 106,531 3,189,916 3,296,447 114,822 3,297,489 3,412,311 24,388 755,661 780,049

 HM Trucks 6,415 191,303 197,718 6,415 194,541 200,956 1,239 46,522 47,761

● Buses 12,752 106,804 119,556 11,258 108,434 119,692 2,419 23,842 26,261

 Motorcoaches 10,203 18,880 29,083 9,021 19,454 28,475 1,920 3,898 5,818

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,254,864 2,254,896 3,368,510 2,319,874 770,151 527,131

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 49,671 100,158 50,350 99,411 11,489 21,318

● Truck OOS Rate 5.1% 21.2% 4.8% 21.4% 4.9% 21.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.7% 6.5% 5.0% 6.5% 4.9% 6.2%

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

Source: All data from the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of January 25, 2019.