Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2016) 

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

(Jan 1, 2016–Sep 30, 2016)

CRASHES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 155,422 160,946 121,152

 Large Trucks 140,094 145,216 109,528

 Buses 15,865 16,283 12,023

FATALITIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 4,505 4,688 3,330

 Large Trucks 4,232 4,391 3,150

 Buses 301 320 193

INJURIES

 ● Large Trucks and Buses 88,257 88,978 66,823

 Large Trucks 71,577 72,784 54,923

 Buses 17,837 17,287 12,809

*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–Dec 31, 2016) 

Federal State Total Federal State Total Federal State Total

 ● Warning Letters 20,463 34,670 6,465

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS 

 ● Total Investigations Performed* 8,148 6,452 14,600 7,803 6,264 14,067 1,784 1,432 3,216

 Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations 681 766 1,447 781 803 1,584 166 178 344

 Household Goods Investigations 162 13 175 165 10 175 40 4 44

 Passenger Carrier Investigations 917 334 1,251 836 426 1,262 183 84 267

 Motorcoach Investigations 804 163 967 725 223 948 154 40 194

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS**

 ● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations 7,064 5,996 13,060 7,175 5,775 12,950 1,681 1,154 2,835

 ● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation 0.87 0.93 0.89 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.94 0.81 0.88

 ● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations 49,395 31,672 81,067 47,498 31,948 79,446 11,414 7,264 18,678

 ● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation 6.06 4.91 5.55 6.09 5.10 5.65 6.40 5.07 5.81

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

 ● Notice of Claims (NOC)*** 5,066 4,970 1,127

 Percent Investigations with NOC Issued 34.7% 35.3% 35.0%

 ● Notice of Violations (NOV) 59 68 12

 ● Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders 635 701 157

 Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders 4.4% 5.0% 4.9%

 ● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders 1,129 1,365 301

 ● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders 7 9 3 

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS****

 ● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

39,919

(77.1%)

38,101

(82.4%)

8,052

(88.5%)

 ● New Entrant Pass Rate 84.1% 88.3% 88.8%

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

Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) 17,469 13,084 3,310

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,384,208 3,417,187 769,552

 ● Trucks 120,624 3,141,636 3,262,260 110,429 3,183,183 3,293,612 22,449 720,230 742,679

 HM Trucks 5,983 184,999 190,982 6,233 193,846 200,079 1,187 42,358 43,545

 ● Buses 10,003 111,945 121,948 13,209 110,366 123,575 2,878 23,995 26,873

 Motorcoaches 7,589 23,818 31,407 10,382 21,490 31,872 2,371 4,194 6,565

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

 ● Total Number of Truck Inspections 3,210,110 2,206,696 3,245,969 2,244,642 734,218 500,611

 ● Total Number of Bus Inspections 54,346 102,665 53,524 102,518 11,885 22,047

 ● Truck OOS Rate 4.9% 20.9% 4.9% 20.7% 4.9% 20.3%

 ● 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 Audits 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 January 27, 2017.