Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of March 31, 2018) 

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* Calendar Year 2015 Calendar Year 2016* Calendar Year 2017*

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 161,105 167,325 168,865

Large Trucks 145,348 151,175 152,637

Buses 16,311 16,702 16,744

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 4,722 4,950 4,790

Large Trucks 4,420 4,654 4,539

Buses 325 326 267

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 89,103 92,252 91,959

Large Trucks 72,888 75,605 74,947

Buses 17,310 17,937 17,917

*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 2016 Fiscal Year 2017 Fiscal Year 2018 

(Oct 1, 2017–Mar 31, 2018)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 34,670 28,293 13,437

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 7,805 6,272 14,077 8,520 6,401 14,921 3,998 2,993 6,991

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 782 804 1,586 726 790 1,516 313 407 720

Household Goods Investigations 165 10 175 177 12 189 73 9 82

Passenger Carrier Investigations 836 429 1,265 1,177 417 1,594 390 130 520

Motorcoach Investigations 725 223 948 1,029 193 1,222 340 69 409

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,147 5,767 12,914 7,180 5,476 12,656 3,336 2,634 5,970

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.84 0.86 0.85 0.83 0.88 0.85

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,526 31,981 79,507 50,007 33,931 83,938 23,591 16,209 39,800

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

Investigation 6.09 5.10 5.65 5.87 5.30 5.63 5.90 5.42 5.69

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC)* 4,969 5,086 2,331

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 35.3% 34.1% 33.3%

● Notice of Violations (NOV) 68 111 90

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 709 622 279

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

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,371 1,276 691

● 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%)

35,892

 (89.7%)

 17,322

 (94.7%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 88.3% 89.2% 91.0%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 13,085 12,506 5,526

DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,419,093 3,414,707 1,688,505

● Trucks 111,064 3,184,257 3,295,321 106,295 3,188,992 3,295,287 53,659 1,581,937 1,635,596

HM Trucks 6,291 193,917 200,208 6,360 191,273 197,633 2,519 94,783 97,302

● Buses 13,306 110,466 123,772 12,666 106,754 119,420 5,271 47,638 52,909

Motorcoaches 10,448 21,493 31,941 10,140 18,872 29,012 4,235 7,786 12,021

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,247,534 2,245,874 3,253,646 2,254,190 1,616,199 1,099,315

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 53,618 102,692 49,563 100,041 22,279 44,585

● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.7% 5.1% 21.2% 4.7% 21.0%

● Bus OOS Rate 4.3% 6.7% 4.8% 6.5% 4.9% 6.0%

*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 April 27, 2018.