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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report - (as of 12/31/05)


SAFETY OUTCOMES
  2003
  2004
  2005
Large Truck Fatalities
5,036
5,190
*
Large Truck Fatality Rate
(per 100 million 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 vehicle miles traveled)
56.0
51.3
*
Sources: Fatalities and Injuries - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); Vehicle Miles Traveled - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
*Data not available.

DATA QUALITY   2004  2005
ACCURACY
Percentage of FMCSA-reported crashes matched to a carrier87%86%
Percentage of FMCSA-reported inspections matched to a carrier97%98%
TIMELINESS
Average time to upload a crash to FMCSA84 days57 days
Average time to upload an inspection to FMCSA15 days15 days
COMPLETENESS
Percentage of fatal crashes reported to FMCSA92%*
*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 (OOS) 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
**1,398247
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 & 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, and 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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