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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of 9/30/12)

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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
(as of September 30, 2012)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2010 CY 2011* CY 2012*
(1/1/2012 - 6/30/2012)
CRASHES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 129,698 129,507 59,163
            Large Trucks 116,179 116,350 52,581
            Buses 13,947 13,605 6,825
    FATALITIES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 4,217 4,011 1,873
            Large Trucks 3,902 3,737 1,758
            Buses 327 295 125
    INJURIES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 80,552 78,758 37,595
            Large Trucks 64,913 64,010 29,876
            Buses 16,595 15,868 8,298
    *States are expected to report crash data to FMCSA within 90 days of the crash. Data are considered preliminary for 18 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 2010 FY 2011* FY 2012*
    Federal State Federal State Federal State
  • Warning Letters
  • 13,323 40,944 24,126
    CARRIER REVIEWS
  • Total Reviews Performed
  • 12,281 7,874 11,086 7,336 12,340 7,839
            Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,943 1,108 1,176 867 908 730
            Household Goods Reviews 561 6 292 11 243 1
            Passenger Carrier Reviews** 1,307 419 1,263 472 1,389 502
                Motorcoach Reviews** 944 213 859 196 912 213
            BY REVIEWS IN PHASED COMPLIANCE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITY (CSA) STATES
            - Total Reviews Performed 9,997 5,365 8,853 4,982 10,152 5,537
                Full Compliance Reviews/On-Site Comprehensive 8,116 4,884 4,460 3,531 2,740 2,631
                Focused Compliance Reviews *** *** 3,260 1,081 6,117 2,480
            BY INVESTIGATIONS IN 100% CSA STATES - AK, CO, DE, GA, KS, NJ, MD, MN, MO, MT
            - Total Reviews Performed 2,284 2,509 2,233 2,354 2,188 2,302
                On-Site Comprehensive Investigations 365 417 523 802 452 803
                On-Site Focused Investigations 584 612 988 767 1,056 683
                Off-Site Investigations 333 356 315 298 233 340
    INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS
  • Cooperative Safety Plans (CSPs)
  • 429 479 402
  • Notice of Claims (NOC)
  • 7,168 6,897 6,515
  • Notice of Violations (NOV)
  • 95 138 205
  • Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders
  • 1,005 912 853
  • 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders
  • 1,599 1,644 1,554
  • Imminent Hazard OOS Orders
  • 5 10 48
    NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS
  • Total New Entrant Safety Audits
        (Percent Completed on Time)
  • 34,140
    (92.5%)
    34,273
    (87.4%)
    34,189
    (89.5%)
  • New Entrant Pass Rate
  • 72.6% 65.0% 74.1%
    INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS
  • HM Package Inspections
  • 6,624 4,718 4,809
  • Security Contact Reviews
  • 1,897 905 720
    ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS
    Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,569,354 3,601,533 3,572,063
  • Trucks
  • 129,293 3,344,525 130,855 3,355,233 127,824 3,320,791
            HM Trucks 5,375 205,470 4,967 203,606 4,033 199,676
  • Buses
  • 12,294 83,242 11,842 103,603 11,282 112,166
            Motorcoaches 9,890 15,791 8,750 20,235 8,450 27,221
    DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/
    OOS RATES
    Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle
  • Total Number of Truck Inspections
  • 3,424,724 2,330,183 3,430,578 2,330,291 3,394,131 2,334,281
  • Total Number of Bus Inspections
  • 46,033 82,844 54,120 95,810 61,546 101,012
  • Truck OOS Rate
  • 5.3% 20.4% 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.8%
  • Bus OOS Rate
  • 4.9% 6.7% 5.9% 6.9% 5.3% 6.8%
    *Data are considered preliminary for 18 months.
    **Changed to include non-ratable reviews.
    ***No interventions of this type for the given year.
    Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of October 26, 2012.

     
     
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