Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of March 31, 2018)
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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% | 6.1% | |||
*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 27, 2018.
Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of April 27, 2018.