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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report - (as of December 31, 2005)

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SAFETY OUTCOMES
2003
2004
2005
• Large Truck Fatalities
5,036
5,190
*
• Large Truck Fatality Rate
  (per 100 million truck vehicle miles traveled)
2.3
2.3
*
• Intercity Bus Fatalities
36
58
*
• Large Truck Injuries
122,000
116,000
*
• Large Truck Injury Rate
  (per 100 million truck vehicle miles traveled)
56.0
51.3
*
Sources: NHTSA (fatalities and injuries), FHWA (vehicle miles traveled).
*Data not available.

DATA QUALITY
2004
2005
ACCURACY
• Percentage of FMCSA reported crashes matched to a carrier
87%
86%
• Percentage of FMCSA reported inspections matched to a carrier
97%
98%
TIMELINESS
• Average time to upload a crash to FMCSA
84 days
57 days
• Average time to upload an inspection to FMCSA
15 days
15 days
COMPLETENESS
• Percentage of fatal crashes reported to FMCSA
92%
*
*Data not available.

PROGRAM OUTPUTS
FY 2004
Total
FY 2005
Total
FY 2006
(Oct-Dec 2005)
INCREASING ENFORCEMENT
• Number of Federal Compliance Reviews
7,637
7,998
1,845
• Number of State Compliance Reviews
3,745
4,593
1,076
• Number of enforcement cases initiated
5,192
4,427
904
   - Unsat/Unfit out-of-service orders
415
596
103
• Roadside inspections, trucks
2,949,487
2,950,640
663,467
• Roadside inspections, buses
42,864
48,625
11,683
• States participating in PRISM
37
42
42
INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS
• New Entrant Safety Audits:
   - Total
25,316
34,121
7,958
   - Federal
10,013
10,065
1,459
   - State
15,031
22,091
6,126
   - Contractor
**
1,398
247
   - Seminar
272
567
126
• ITS-CVO: Number of Federal, State,
    and industry attendees at briefings
2,205
1,235
175
• Web site visits to Analysis and
    Information (A&I) Online
1,417,701
1,674,741
415,600
• HM Security Sensitivity Visits (SSVs)
1,462
1,809
393
• Federal/State personnel training:
   - For Compliance Reviews
93
176
55
   - For roadside inspections
3,586
3,793
995
   - For hazardous materials
2,611
2,149
387
   - For in-service
1,332
1,910
121
IMPROVING SAFETY INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
• States participating in CVISN
    (In Planning, Design, Deployment)
8, 3, 31
8, 1, 33
8, 1, 30
• States that have completed
    Core CVISN Capability Deployment
9
9
12
RULEMAKINGS (October-December 2005)

• Safety Fitness Procedures; RIN 2126-AA37; FMCSA-1998-3639; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking;
    Withdrawal (November 7, 2005).

**Data not available. FMCSA began collecting data on safety audits by contractors in FY 2005.

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