Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of June 30, 2018)

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

(Jan 1–Mar 31, 2018)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 167,414 169,666 44,830

Large Trucks 151,246 153,254 40,249

Buses 16,720 16,931 4,746

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,952 4,844 1,055

Large Trucks 4,655 4,586 1,002

Buses 327 274 59

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 92,298 92,382 22,755

Large Trucks 75,631 75,190 18,349

Buses 17,957 18,105 4,681

*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 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 

(Oct 1, 2017–Jun 30, 2018)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 34,670 28,293 23,003

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 7,805 6,272 14,077 8,521 6,401 14,922 6,125 4,547 10,672

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 782 804 1,586 726 790 1,516 485 630 1,115

 Household Goods Investigations 165 10 175 177 12 189 119 12 131

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 836 429 1,265 1,177 417 1,594 662 201 863

 Motorcoach Investigations 725 223 948 1,029 193 1,222 577 112 689

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,147 5,767 12,914 7,181 5,476 12,657 5,022 3,981 9,003

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.84 0.86 0.85 0.82 0.88 0.84

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,526 31,981 79,507 50,012 33,931 83,943 35,976 24,407 60,383

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

 Investigation 6.09 5.10 5.65 5.87 5.30 5.63 5.87 5.37 5.66

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS Federal State Federal State Federal State

● Notice of Claims (NOC)* 4,345 624 4,363 724 2,851 456

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 55.7% 10.0% 51.2% 11.3% 46.6% 10.0%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 68 111 171

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 709 624 423

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 5.0% 4.2% 4.0%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,371 1,278 1,022

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 9 4 4

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

38,109

(81.6%)

35,893

(89.5%)

26,769

(94.1%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 88.3% 89.2% 90.3%

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

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 13,085 12,504 8,939

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,419,101 3,415,819 2,623,206

● Trucks 111,074 3,184,256 3,295,330 106,494 3,189,816 3,296,310 87,682 2,446,932 2,534,614

 HM Trucks 6,294 193,917 200,211 6,409 191,300 197,709 4,896 145,342 150,238

● Buses 13,306 110,465 123,771 12,734 106,775 119,509 8,570 80,022 88,592

 Motorcoaches 10,448 21,493 31,941 10,191 18,880 29,071 6,854 13,811 20,665

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,247,543 2,245,893 3,254,652 2,254,839 2,504,214 1,729,394

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 53,618 102,691 49,624 100,121 36,526 74,304

● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.6% 5.1% 21.2% 4.7% 21.3%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.3% 6.7% 4.8% 6.5% 4.9% 6.4%

*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 July 27, 2018.