Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(As of March 31, 2020)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2017* CY 2018* CY 2019*

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses 171.426 183,055 175,583

 Large Trucks 154,735 165,940 159,062

 Buses 16,691 17,753 17,145

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 5,124 5,234 4,816

 Large Trucks 4,858 4,964 4,571

 Buses 266 312 272

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses 93,487 97,876 93,451

 Large Trucks 76,023 80,715 77,434

 Buses 17,464 18,438 17,190

*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 2018 FY 2019

FY 2020

(Oct. 1, 2019 – Mar. 31, 2020)

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

● Warning Letters 30,476 26,379 13,212

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Investigations Performed 8,239 6,135 14,374 7,612 5,486 13,098 3,628 2,532 6,160

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 632 832 1,464 596 758 1,354 258 383 641

 Household Goods Investigations 155 17 172 131 8 139 57 10 67

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 885 299 1,184 869 260 1,129 379 132 511

 Motorcoach Investigations 760 170 930 764 152 916 307 78 385

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 6,759 5,388 12,147 6,304 5,273 11,577 2,759 2,507 5,266

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.82 0.88 0.85 0.83 0.96 0.88 0.76 0.99 0.85

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 47,030 32,706 79,736 39,909 28,416 68,325 17,370 12,439 29,809

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

Investigation

5.71 5.33 5.55 5.24 5.18 5.22 4.79 4.91 4.84

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) 3,771 589 4,360 3,188 455 3,643 1,234 189 1,423

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 45.8% 9.6% 30.3% 41.9% 8.3% 27.8% 34.0% 7.5% 23.1%

● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 570 573 195

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.0% 4.4% 3.2%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,325 1,181 492

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 4 0 0

● Conditional Ratings 2,927 2,612 1,077

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

 (Percent Completed on Time)

36,758

(92.08%)

39,490

(90.15%)

20,324

(90.28%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate 89.8% 88.2% 89.9%

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

 Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 12,338 14,360 8,015

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,533,811 3,471,343 1,562,806

● Trucks 115,466 3,298,518 3,413,984 100,645 3,251,743 3,352,388 40,811 1,472,353 1,513,164

 HM Trucks 6,464 194,589 201,053 6,352 199,585 205,937 2,533 87,493 90,026

● Buses 11,339 108,488 119,827 11,806 107,149 118,955 5,236 44,406 49,642

 Motorcoaches 9,078 19,448 28,526 9,484 17,919 27,403 4,429 6,756 11,185

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

● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,370,171 2,321,025 3,309,111 2,288,318 1,491,403 1,018,948

● Total Number of Bus Inspections 50,436 99,556 49,548 99,451 18,893 42,302

● Truck OOS Rate 4.8% 21.4% 5.0% 21.3% 5.3% 21.1%

● Bus OOS Rate 5.0% 6.5% 4.8% 6.5% 4.4% 5.5%

*Includes both closed and open enforcements; excludes enforcement as a result of an inspection. Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of April 24, 2020.