Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2017) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2014 Calendar Year 2015* Calendar Year 2016* 

CRASHES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 155,477 161,034 165,536

 Large Trucks 140,115 145,282 149,658

 Buses 15,900 16,306 16,420

FATALITIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 4,505 4,718 4,660

 Large Trucks 4,231 4,415 4,389

 Buses 302 326 288

INJURIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 88,341 89,085 91,088

 Large Trucks 71,586 72,836 74,798

 Buses 17,913 17,344 17,542

*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 2015 Fiscal Year 2016 Fiscal Year 2017 

(Oct 1, 2016–Mar 31, 2017) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

 ● Warning Letters 20,463 34,670 13,497

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Investigations Performed* 8,148 6,452 14,600 7,804 6,269 14,073 3,971 3,155 7,126

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 681 766 1,447 782 803 1,585 359 391 750

 Household Goods Investigations 162 13 175 165 10 175 90 7 97

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 917 334 1,251 836 428 1,264 460 177 637

 Motorcoach Investigations 804 163 967 725 223 948 408 88 496

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS**

 ● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,064 5,996 13,060 7,178 5,776 12,954 3,573 2,632 6,205

 ● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.87 0.93 0.89 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.90 0.83 0.87

 ● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 49,395 31,672 81,067 47,504 31,967 79,471 24,293 16,594 40,887

 ● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.06 4.91 5.55 6.09 5.10 5.65 6.12 5.26 5.74

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

 ● Notice of Claims (NOC)*** 5,066 4,970 2,394

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 34.7% 35.3% 33.6%

 ● Notice of Violations (NOV) 59 68 27

 ● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 636 704 296

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.4% 5.0% 4.2%

 ● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,130 1,366 666

 ● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 7 9 3 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS****

 ● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

39,920

(77.0%)

38,108

(82.1%)

17,742

(90.2%)

 ● New Entrant Pass Rate 84.1% 88.2% 89.1%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,469 13,085 6,569

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,384,362 3,418,424 1,636,521

 ● Trucks 120,624 3,141,785 3,262,409 110,651 3,184,040 3,294,691 47,753 1,532,742 1,580,495

 HM Trucks 5,983 185,003 190,986 6,251 193,899 200,150 2,487 95,064 97,551

 ● Buses 10,003 111,950 121,953 13,281 110,452 123,733 6,060 49,966 56,026

 Motorcoaches 7,589 23,818 31,407 10,427 21,489 31,916 4,915 8,160 13,075

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

 ● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,210,252 2,206,771 3,246,929 2,245,357 1,561,816 1,069,972

 ● Total Number of Bus Inspections 54,346 102,670 53,596 102,658 23,486 47,066

 ● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.9% 4.9% 20.7% 4.9% 20.6%

 ● Bus OOS Rate 4.7% 7.2% 4.3% 6.7% 4.5% 6.0%

*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 Audit counts include both offsite and onsite safety audits. The counts will be different from prior reports.

Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of April 28, 2017.