Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of September 30, 2010)

SAFETY OUTCOMES 2007 2008 2009 

● Rate of Fatalities Involving Large Trucks and Buses (per 100 million total VMT)* 0.169 0.153** 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 3.13** 

● 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 truck-bus crash). 

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

DATA QUALITY 2008 2009 Jul 2009-Jun 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% 95% 

COMPLETENESS

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

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

● 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.

PROGRAM OUTPUTS 

FY 2008 Total FY 2009 Total* FY 2010 Total* 

Federal State Federal State Federal State 

COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (CRs) 

● Total Number of CRs 9,645 5,980 10,290 6,637 9,307 6,106 

 Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,835 938 2,082 1,218 1,942 1,107 

 Household Goods Reviews 608 21 557 9 559 6 

 Motor Coach Reviews 1,040 267 1,090 197 878 164 

● Conditional Carrier Reviews 2,304 782 2,444 758 2,030 726 

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%) 

2,140 

(94%) 

31,705 

(96%) 

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

● Trucks 102,729 3,234,583 110,001 3,321,388 130,738 3,331,858 

 HM Trucks 4,467 195,359 4,588 217,613 5,395 204,454 

● Buses** 16,375 133,282 16,329 82,745 12,302 81,861 

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

 Trucks (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 74,398 208,538 80,758 206,930 101,382 227,010 

 Buses (Canada/Mexico Domiciled***) 1,771 599 1,573 530 1,318 447 

 Northern Border (Canada Domiciled) 250 63,773 231 55,115 195 63,105 

 Southern Border (Mexico Domiciled***) 75,919 145,364 82,100 152,345 102,505 164,352 

● Notice-of-Claim Letters Issued 6,083 6,647 7,456 

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 1,015 1,117 1,005 

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,151 1,503 1,592 

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,288,238 2,270,475 3,379,140 2,267,948 3,414,746 2,323,217 

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 51,316 130,937 50,812 81,158 45,830 81,640 

● Truck OOS Rate 6.6% 23.2% 5.8% 22.1% 5.3% 20.0% 

● Bus OOS Rate 4.8% 7.6% 4.2% 7.5% 4.8% 6.7% 

INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS

● HM Package Inspections 6,894 6,718 6,610 

● Security Contact Reviews 1,797 1,959 1,897 

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