Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of March 31, 2019)
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MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* | Calendar Year 2016 | Calendar Year 2017* | Calendar Year 2018* |
CRASHES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 167,597 | 170,831 | 180,387 |
Large Trucks | 151,408 | 154,277 | 163,570 |
Buses | 16,742 | 17,076 | 17,444 |
FATALITIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 4,961 | 5,116 | 4,867 |
Large Trucks | 4,664 | 4,849 | 4,610 |
Buses | 327 | 284 | 296 |
INJURIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 92,394 | 93,191 | 96,182 |
Large Trucks | 75,714 | 75,821 | 79,339 |
Buses | 17,973 | 18,284 | 18,092 |
*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 - Mar 31, 2019) | ||||||
Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | |
• Warning Letters | 28,293 | 30,476 | 12,058 | ||||||
CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Investigations Performed | 8,521 | 6,402 | 14,923 | 8,238 | 6,135 | 14,373 | 3,659 | 2,840 | 6,499 |
Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations | 726 | 791 | 1,517 | 631 | 832 | 1,463 | 293 | 368 | 661 |
Household Goods Investigations | 177 | 12 | 189 | 155 | 17 | 172 | 63 | 5 | 68 |
Passenger Carrier Investigations | 1,177 | 417 | 1,594 | 885 | 299 | 1,184 | 363 | 124 | 487 |
Motorcoach Investigations | 1,029 | 193 | 1,222 | 760 | 170 | 930 | 311 | 80 | 391 |
VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations | 7,157 | 5,471 | 12,628 | 6,759 | 5,388 | 12,147 | 3,295 | 2,699 | 5,994 |
• Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 0.95 | 0.92 |
• Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations | 50,036 | 33,952 | 83,988 | 47,023 | 32,706 | 79,729 | 20,379 | 15,049 | 35,428 |
• Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation | 5.87 | 5.30 | 5.63 | 5.71 | 5.33 | 5.55 | 5.57 | 5.30 | 5.45 |
INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS | |||||||||
• Notice of Claims (NOC)* | 4,364 | 724 | 5,088 | 3,772 | 589 | 4,361 | 1,579 | 253 | 1,832 |
Percent Investigations with NOC Issued | 51.2% | 11.3% | 34.1% | 45.8% | 9.6% | 30.3% | 43.2% | 9.0% | 28.2% |
• Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders | 631 | 569 | 303 | ||||||
Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders | 4.2% | 4.0% | 4.7% | ||||||
• 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders | 1,279 | 1,315 | 578 | ||||||
• Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders | 7 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
• Conditional Ratings Issued | 2,929 | 2,921 | 1,364 | ||||||
NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS | |||||||||
• Total New Entrant Safety Audits (Percent Completed on Time) | 35,893 (89.2%) | 36,751 (92.6%) | 19,306 (92.5%) | ||||||
• New Entrant Pass Rate | 89.2% | 89.8% | 88.9% | ||||||
• New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) | 12,504 | 12,338 | 6,444 | ||||||
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS | |||||||||
Total Truck and Bus Inspections | 3,415,662 | 3,532,674 | 1,649,868 | ||||||
• Trucks | 106,176 | 3,189,928 | 3,296,104 | 115,090 | 3,297,832 | 3,412,922 | 49,854 | 1,546,870 | 1,596,724 |
HM Trucks | 6,405 | 191,304 | 197,709 | 6,428 | 194,568 | 200,996 | 2,682 | 96,200 | 98,882 |
• Buses | 12,755 | 106,803 | 119,558 | 11,313 | 108,439 | 119,752 | 5,293 | 47,851 | 53,144 |
Motorcoaches | 10,202 | 18,880 | 29,082 | 9,068 | 19,454 | 28,522 | 4,251 | 7,683 | 11,934 |
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | |||
• Total Number of Truck Inspections | 3,254,520 | 2,254,576 | 3,369,117 | 2,320,153 | 1,577,348 | 1,081,129 | |||
• Total Number of Bus Inspections | 49,669 | 100,160 | 50,397 | 99,471 | 22,669 | 44,055 | |||
• Truck OOS Rate | 5.1% | 21.2% | 4.8% | 21.4% | 4.9% | 21.0% | |||
• Bus OOS Rate | 4.7% | 6.5% | 5.0% | 6.5% | 4.5% | 5.9% | |||
*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 26, 2019.