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


SAFETY OUTCOMES
  2002
  2003
  2004
Large Truck Fatalities
4,939
4,986
5,196*
Large Truck Fatality Rate
(per 100 million vehicle miles traveled)
2.3
2.3
**
Intercity Bus Fatalities
54
36
**
Large Truck Injuries
130,000
122,000
118,000*
Large Truck Injury Rate
(per 100 million vehicle miles traveled)
60.5
56.6
**
Sources: Fatalities and Injuries - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); Vehicle Miles Traveled - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
*Preliminary. **Data not available.
 
DATA QUALITY   2003  2004
ACCURACY
Percentage of FMCSA-reported crashes matched to a carrier86%87%
Percentage of FMCSA-reported inspections matched to a carrier96%97%
TIMELINESS
Average time to upload a crash to FMCSA136 days84 days
Average time to upload an inspection to FMCSA26 days15 days
COMPLETENESS
Percentage of fatal crashes reported to FMCSA93%**
**Data not available.
 
PROGRAM OUTPUTS
FY
2003 Total
FY 2004
Total
FY 2005
(Oct-Dec 2004)
FY 2005 (Jan-Mar 2005)
INCREASING ENFORCEMENT
Number of Federal Compliance Reviews
9,068
7,637
1,828
2,175
Number of State Compliance Reviews
3,744
3,745
909
1,107
Number of Enforcement Cases Initiated
5,753
5,192
1,227
1,081
Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders
316
415
130
145
Roadside Inspections, Trucks
2,991,788
2,946,630
683,601
703,740
Roadside Inspections, Buses
42,377
42,790
9,422
10,078
States Participating in PRISM
25
37
37
38
INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS
New Entrant Safety Audits:
 
Total
7,205
25,316
7,405
8,907
Federal
4,119
10,013
2,852
2,973
State
2,998
15,031
4,482
5,801
Seminar
88
272
71
133
ITS-CVO: Number of Federal, State, and Industry Attendees at Briefings
2,703
2,205
485
365
Web site visits to Analysis & Information (A&I) Online
935,865
1,417,701
455,573
414,096
HM Security Sensitivity Visits (SSVs)
1,797
1,476
349
436
Federal/State Personnel Training:
 
For Compliance Reviews
93
93
80
31
For Roadside Inspections
2,790
3,586
1,031
1,173
For Hazardous Materials
1,906
2,611
362
605
For In-Service
199
1,332
253
324
IMPROVING SAFETY INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
States Participating in CVISN (in Planning, Design, and Deployment)
7, 6, 34
8, 3, 31
8, 2, 32
8, 2, 32
States That Have Completed Core CVISN Capability Deployment
4
9
9
9
RULEMAKINGS (October-December 2005)
Hours of Service of Drivers, Notice of Availability in Public Docket (February 4, 2005).
Title VI Regulations, FMCSA Financial Assistance Recipients (February 14, 2005).
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