Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of June 30, 2016)
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MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* | Calendar Year 2014* | Calendar Year 2015* | Calendar Year 2016* (Jan 1, 2016-Mar 31, 2016) |
CRASHES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 155,408 | 158,374 | 38,681 |
Large Trucks | 140,081 | 142,912 | 34,567 |
Buses | 15,864 | 16,010 | 4,251 |
FATALITIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 4,492 | 4,558 | 905 |
Large Trucks | 4,219 | 4,280 | 854 |
Buses | 301 | 301 | 56 |
INJURIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 88,260 | 87,555 | 20,171 |
Large Trucks | 71,580 | 71,604 | 16,168 |
Buses | 17,837 | 17,039 | 4,336 |
*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 2014 | Fiscal Year 2015 | Fiscal Year 2016 (Oct 1, 2015-Jun 30, 2016) | ||||||
Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | |
• Warning Letters | 20,546 | 20,463 | 27,515 | ||||||
CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Investigations Performed | 7,578 | 7,352 | 14,930 | 8,186 | 6,483 | 14,669 | 5,924 | 4,486 | 10,410 |
Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations | 625 | 771 | 1,396 | 681 | 766 | 1,447 | 579 | 587 | 1,166 |
Household Goods Investigations | 158 | 13 | 171 | 164 | 13 | 177 | 124 | 7 | 131 |
Passenger Carrier Investigations* | 1,029 | 362 | 1,391 | 918 | 336 | 1,254 | 667 | 291 | 958 |
Motorcoach Investigations* | 843 | 153 | 996 | 805 | 165 | 970 | 578 | 181 | 759 |
VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations | 6,256 | 6,858 | 13,114 | 7,020 | 6,229 | 13,249 | 5,478 | 4,643 | 10,121 |
• Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation | 0.83 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 0.96 | 0.90 | 0.92 | 1.03 | 0.97 |
• Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations | 45,600 | 32,648 | 78,248 | 49,564 | 31,519 | 81,083 | 35,597 | 22,920 | 58,517 |
• Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation | 6.02 | 4.44 | 5.24 | 6.05 | 4.86 | 5.53 | 6.01 | 5.11 | 5.62 |
INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS | |||||||||
• Notice of Claims (NOC)** | 4,584 | 5,066 | 3,667 | ||||||
Percent Investigations with NOC Issued | 30.70% | 34.54% | 35.23% | ||||||
• Notice of Violations (NOV) | 86 | 59 | 52 | ||||||
• Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders*** | 684 | 632 | 524 | ||||||
Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders | 4.58% | 4.31% | 5.03% | ||||||
• 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders*** | 1,256 | 1,128 | 1,018 | ||||||
• Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders | 36 | 9 | 5 | ||||||
NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS | |||||||||
• Total New Entrant Safety Audits (Percent Completed on Time) | 32,199 (85.48%) | 31,736 (77.19%) | 15,707 (82.78%) | ||||||
• New Entrant Pass Rate | 80.3% | 81.8% | 83.1% | ||||||
• New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) | 17,981 | 17,467 | 9,748 | ||||||
ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS | |||||||||
Total Truck and Bus Inspections | 3,437,808 | 3,384,025 | 2,542,648 | ||||||
• Trucks | 122,082 | 3,193,865 | 3,315,947 | 120,613 | 3,141,456 | 3,262,069 | 83,868 | 2,366,649 | 2,450,517 |
HM Trucks | 5,619 | 192,559 | 198,178 | 5,981 | 184,991 | 190,972 | 4,588 | 143,225 | 147,813 |
• Buses | 10,312 | 111,549 | 121,861 | 10,003 | 111,953 | 121,956 | 9,811 | 82,320 | 92,131 |
Motorcoaches | 7,838 | 25,202 | 33,040 | 7,589 | 23,819 | 31,408 | 7,642 | 16,086 | 23,728 |
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | |||
• Total Number of Truck Inspections | 3,264,558 | 2,265,210 | 3,209,920 | 2,206,619 | 2,417,726 | 1,670,177 | |||
• Total Number of Bus Inspections | 55,298 | 103,010 | 54,345 | 102,674 | 39,843 | 77,170 | |||
• Truck OOS Rate | 5.0% | 20.8% | 4.9% | 20.9% | 4.9% | 20.7% | |||
• Bus OOS Rate | 4.9% | 7.3% | 4.7% | 7.2% | 4.2% | 6.8% | |||
| *Passenger carrier and motorcoach investigation data have been changed to be based on the SMS definition at time of review. **Includes both closed and open enforcements; excludes enforcement as a result of an inspection. ***As of March 31, 2016, counts of Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders and 90-Day No-Pay OOS are now generated from MCMIS as opposed to the Enforcement Management Information System. Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of July 22, 2016. |