Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of December 31, 2020)

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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(as of December 31, 2020)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES*

CY 2018*

CY 2019*

CY 2020*

(Jan. 1, 2020–Sept. 30, 2020)

CRASHES

● Large Trucks and Buses

184,072

181,607

110,693

Large Trucks

166,856

164,410

103,811

Buses

17,861

17,845

7,138

FATALITIES

● Large Trucks and Buses

5,254

5,064

3,394

Large Trucks

4,984

4,808

3,260

Buses

312

284

149

INJURIES

● Large Trucks and Buses

98,659

97,780

55,097

Large Trucks

81,343

81,065

48,787

Buses

18,628

17,922

6,647

*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

FY 2019

FY 2020

FY 2021

(Oct. 01, 2020 - Dec. 31, 2020)

Federal

State

Total

Federal

State

Total

Federal

State

Total

● Warning Letters

26,379

22,686

6,083

CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS *

● Total Investigations Performed

7,611

5,486

13,097

7,345

4,717

12,062

1,524

991

2,515

Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations

596

758

1,354

341

505

846

152

Household Goods Investigations

131

139

Passenger Carrier Investigations

869

260

1,129

401

212

613

Motorcoach Investigations

764

152

916

315

105

420

VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS

● Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations

6,308

5,273

11,581

4,714

3,954

8,668

898

757

1,655

● Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation

0.83

0.96

0.88

0.64

0.84

0.72

0.59

0.76

0.66

● Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations

39,896

28,416

68,312

32,261

20,867

53,128

6,944

4,489

11,433

● Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation

5.24

5.18

5.22

4.39

4.42

4.40

4.56

4.53

4.55

INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS

● Notice of Claims (NOC) *

3,188

455

3,643

2,207

342

2,549

410

487

Percent Investigations with NOC Issued

41.9%

8.3%

27.8%

30.0%

7.3%

21.1%

26.9%

7.8%

19.4%

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

573

310

Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders

4.4%

2.6%

2.5%

● 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders

1,185

799

132

● Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders

● Conditional Ratings

2,614

1,663

332

NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS

● Total New Entrant Safety Audits

(Percent Completed on Time)

39,492

(89.7%)

40,714

(88.7%)

9,261

(85.7%)

● New Entrant Pass Rate

88.2%

91.7%

92.5%

● New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit)

14,362

15,753

3,424

ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS

Total Truck and Bus Inspections

3,472,428

2,719,292

659,988

● Trucks

100,695

3,252,739

3,353,434

43,914

2,589,039

2,632,953

353

641,017

641,370

HM Trucks

6,364

199,616

205,980

2,823

150,847

153,670

40,470

40,545

● Buses

11,808

107,186

118,994

5,324

81,015

86,339

18,617

18,618

Motorcoaches

9,486

17,949

27,435

4,494

9,829

14,323

1,996

DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES

Driver

Vehicle

Driver

Vehicle

Driver

Vehicle

● Total Number of Truck Inspections

3,309,597

2,288,681

2,582,460

1,777,469

631,560

435,157

● Total Number of Bus Inspections

49,550

99,466

23,653

78,075

4,341

17,812

● Truck OOS Rate

5.0%

21.3%

5.2%

21.4%

5.4%

21.2%

● Bus OOS Rate

4.8%

6.5%

4.5%

4.7%

5.2%

3.5%

*Due to the National COVID emergency, FMCSA and partners increased the use of offsite investigations and began implementing focused onsite investigations remotely.

**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 January 29, 2021.

Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2021