Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of June 30, 2019)
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MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* | Calendar Year 2017* | Calendar Year 2018* | Calendar Year 2019* (Jan 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2019) |
CRASHES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 171,140 | 181,239 | 45,256 |
Large Trucks | 154,520 | 164,302 | 40,808 |
Buses | 17,143 | 17,566 | 4,604 |
FATALITIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 5,123 | 4,949 | 1,082 |
Large Trucks | 4,858 | 4,683 | 1,023 |
Buses | 283 | 307 | 61 |
INJURIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 93,326 | 96,713 | 22,756 |
Large Trucks | 75,938 | 79,756 | 18,742 |
Buses | 18,312 | 18,207 | 4,282 |
*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 2017 | Fiscal Year 2018 | Fiscal Year 2019 (Oct 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019) | ||||||
Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | |
• Warning Letters | 28,293 | 30,476 | 19,387 | ||||||
CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Investigations Performed | 8,521 | 6,401 | 14,922 | 8,239 | 6,136 | 14,375 | 5,610 | 4,142 | 9,752 |
Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations | 726 | 791 | 1,517 | 632 | 832 | 1,464 | 449 | 564 | 1,013 |
Household Goods Investigations | 177 | 12 | 189 | 155 | 17 | 172 | 105 | 5 | 110 |
Passenger Carrier Investigations | 1,177 | 417 | 1,594 | 885 | 299 | 1,184 | 604 | 187 | 791 |
Motorcoach Investigations | 1,029 | 193 | 1,222 | 760 | 170 | 930 | 531 | 120 | 651 |
VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations | 7,157 | 5,470 | 12,627 | 6,759 | 5,388 | 12,147 | 4,818 | 3,983 | 8,801 |
• Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.96 | 0.90 |
• Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations | 50,036 | 33,942 | 83,978 | 47,030 | 32,712 | 79,742 | 30,327 | 21,789 | 52,116 |
• Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation | 5.87 | 5.30 | 5.63 | 5.71 | 5.33 | 5.55 | 5.41 | 5.26 | 5.34 |
INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS | |||||||||
• Notice of Claims (NOC)* | 4,364 | 724 | 5,088 | 3,772 | 589 | 4,361 | 2,344 | 356 | 2,700 |
Percent Investigations with NOC Issued | 51.2% | 11.3% | 34.1% | 45.8% | 9.6% | 30.3% | 41.8% | 8.6% | 27.7% |
• Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders | 631 | 570 | 458 | ||||||
Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders | 4.2% | 4.0% | 4.7% | ||||||
• 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders | 1,281 | 1,318 | 895 | ||||||
• Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
• Conditional Ratings Issued | 2,929 | 2,921 | 2,039 | ||||||
NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS | |||||||||
• Total New Entrant Safety Audits (Percent Completed on Time) | 35,893 (89.1%) | 36,755 (92.4%) | 29,657 (91.8%) | ||||||
• New Entrant Pass Rate | 89.2% | 89.8% | 88.4% | ||||||
• New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) | 12,504 | 12,338 | 10,168 | ||||||
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS | |||||||||
Total Truck and Bus Inspections | 3,415,664 | 3,533,192 | 2,559,035 | ||||||
• Trucks | 106,179 | 3,189,927 | 3,296,106 | 115,411 | 3,297,998 | 3,413,409 | 76,558 | 2,394,614 | 2,471,172 |
HM Trucks | 6,405 | 191,305 | 197,710 | 6,449 | 194,572 | 201,021 | 4,734 | 146,437 | 151,171 |
• Buses | 12,755 | 106,803 | 119,558 | 11,312 | 108,471 | 119,783 | 8,528 | 79,335 | 87,863 |
Motorcoaches | 10,202 | 18,880 | 29,082 | 9,068 | 19,454 | 28,522 | 6,828 | 12,417 | 19,245 |
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | |||
• Total Number of Truck Inspections | 3,254,522 | 2,254,590 | 3,369,608 | 2,320,555 | 2,440,649 | 1,698,527 | |||
• Total Number of Bus Inspections | 49,669 | 100,160 | 50,422 | 99,500 | 36,081 | 73,783 | |||
• Truck OOS Rate | 5.1% | 21.2% | 4.8% | 21.4% | 5.0% | 21.2% | |||
• Bus OOS Rate | 4.7% | 6.5% | 5.0% | 6.5% | 4.8% | 6.3% | |||
*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 26, 2019.