Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of June 30, 2018)
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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 | Fiscal Year 2016 | Fiscal Year 2017 | Fiscal Year 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 | ||||||
DRIVER/VEHICLE 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 Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of July 27, 2018.
Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of July 27, 2018.