Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2016) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2013* Calendar Year 2014* Calendar Year 2015* 

CRASHES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 141,797 155,409 156,622

 Large Trucks 126,760 140,084 141,292

 Buses 15,535 15,862 15,876

FATALITIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 4,455 4,487 4,470

 Large Trucks 4,146 4,214 4,197

 Buses 332 301 296

INJURIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 83,608 88,254 86,700

 Large Trucks 66,314 71,581 70,915

 Buses 18,223 17,830 16,856

*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 2014 Fiscal Year 2015 Fiscal Year 2016

(Oct 1, 2015–Mar 31, 2016) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

 ● Warning Letters 20,546 20,463 16,565

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Investigations Performed 7,578 7,351 14,929 8,185 6,483 14,668 3,796 2,907 6,703

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 625 771 1,396 681 766 1,447 385 381 766

 Household Goods Investigations 158 13 171 164 13 177 90 4 94

 Passenger Carrier Investigations* 1,029 362 1,391 918 336 1,254 294 141 435

 Motorcoach Investigations* 843 153 996 805 165 970 260 80 340

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,256 6,858 13,114 7,019 6,229 13,248 3,626 3,058 6,684

 ● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.83 0.93 0.88 0.86 0.96 0.90 0.96 1.05 1.00

 ● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 45,600 32,641 78,241 49,560 31,519 81,079 23,165 14,499 37,664

 ● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.02 4.44 5.24 6.05 4.86 5.53 6.10 4.99 5.62

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

 ● Notice of Claims (NOC)** 4,584 5,066 2,319

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 30.71% 34.54% 34.60%

 ● Notice of Violations (NOV) 86 59 18

 ● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders*** 683 632 333

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.57% 4.31% 4.97%

 ● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders*** 1,254 1,128 692

 ● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 20 7 6 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

 ● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

32,199

(85.57%) 

31,734

(77.32%) 

11,598

(82.07%)

 ● New Entrant Pass Rate 80.3% 81.8% 83.5%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,981 17,466 6,873

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,437,808 3,383,836 1,656,105

 ● Trucks 122,082 3,193,866 3,315,948 120,495 3,141,420 3,261,915 56,512 1,544,869 1,601,381

 HM Trucks 5,619 192,560 198,179 5,980 184,985 190,965 2,638 94,332 96,970

 ● Buses 10,312 111,548 121,860 9,954 111,967 121,921 5,798 48,926 54,724

 Motorcoaches 7,838 25,202 33,040 7,572 23,824 31,396 4,541 9,155 13,696

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

 ● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,264,557 2,265,207 3,209,768 2,206,503 1,580,747 1,072,802

 ● Total Number of Bus Inspections 55,298 103,008 54,307 102,636 23,895 45,987

 ● Truck OOS Rate 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.9% 4.8% 20.6% 

 ● Bus OOS Rate 4.9% 7.3% 4.8% 7.2% 4.1% 6.1% 

*Passenger carrier and motorcoach investigation data have been changed to be based on the SMS definition at time of review.

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

***As of March 31, 2016, counts of Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders and 90-Day No-Pay OOS are now generated from MCMIS as opposed to the Enforcement 

Management Information System.

Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of April 29, 2016.