Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report (as of March 31, 2016)
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MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* | Calendar Year 2013* | Calendar Year 2014* | Calendar Year 2015* |
CRASHES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 141,797 | 155,409 | 156,622 |
Large Trucks | 126,760 | 140,084 | 141,292 |
Buses | 15,535 | 15,862 | 15,876 |
FATALITIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 4,455 | 4,487 | 4,470 |
Large Trucks | 4,146 | 4,214 | 4,197 |
Buses | 332 | 301 | 296 |
INJURIES | |||
• Large Trucks and Buses | 83,608 | 88,254 | 86,700 |
Large Trucks | 66,314 | 71,581 | 70,915 |
Buses | 18,223 | 17,830 | 16,856 |
*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-Mar 31, 2016) | ||||||
Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | Federal | State | Total | |
• Warning Letters | 20,546 | 20,463 | 16,565 | ||||||
CARRIER INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Investigations Performed | 7,578 | 7,351 | 14,929 | 8,185 | 6,483 | 14,668 | 3,796 | 2,907 | 6,703 |
Hazardous Material (HM) Investigations | 625 | 771 | 1,396 | 681 | 766 | 1,447 | 385 | 381 | 766 |
Household Goods Investigations | 158 | 13 | 171 | 164 | 13 | 177 | 90 | 4 | 94 |
Passenger Carrier Investigations* | 1,029 | 362 | 1,391 | 918 | 336 | 1,254 | 294 | 141 | 435 |
Motorcoach Investigations* | 843 | 153 | 996 | 805 | 165 | 970 | 260 | 80 | 340 |
VIOLATIONS CITED DURING INVESTIGATIONS | |||||||||
• Total Number of Acute/Critical Violations | 6,256 | 6,858 | 13,114 | 7,019 | 6,229 | 13,248 | 3,626 | 3,058 | 6,684 |
• Average Number of Acute/Critical Violations per Investigation | 0.83 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 0.96 | 0.90 | 0.96 | 1.05 | 1.00 |
• Total Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations | 45,600 | 32,641 | 78,241 | 49,560 | 31,519 | 81,079 | 23,165 | 14,499 | 37,664 |
• Average Number of Non-Acute/Non-Critical Violations per Investigation | 6.02 | 4.44 | 5.24 | 6.05 | 4.86 | 5.53 | 6.10 | 4.99 | 5.62 |
INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS | |||||||||
• Notice of Claims (NOC)** | 4,584 | 5,066 | 2,319 | ||||||
Percent Investigations with NOC Issued | 30.71% | 34.54% | 34.60% | ||||||
• Notice of Violations (NOV) | 86 | 59 | 18 | ||||||
• Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders*** | 683 | 632 | 333 | ||||||
Percent Investigations Resulting in Unsat/Unfit OOS Orders | 4.57% | 4.31% | 4.97% | ||||||
• 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders*** | 1,254 | 1,128 | 692 | ||||||
• Carrier Imminent Hazard OOS Orders | 20 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS | |||||||||
• Total New Entrant Safety Audits (Percent Completed on Time) | 32,199 (85.57%) | 31,734 (77.32%) | 11,598 (82.07%) | ||||||
• New Entrant Pass Rate | 80.3% | 81.8% | 83.5% | ||||||
• New Entrant OOS Orders (Refusal of Audit/No Contact, Expedited Actions, Failure of Safety Audit) | 17,981 | 17,466 | 6,873 | ||||||
ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS | |||||||||
Total Truck and Bus Inspections | 3,437,808 | 3,383,836 | 1,656,105 | ||||||
• Trucks | 122,082 | 3,193,866 | 3,315,948 | 120,495 | 3,141,420 | 3,261,915 | 56,512 | 1,544,869 | 1,601,381 |
HM Trucks | 5,619 | 192,560 | 198,179 | 5,980 | 184,985 | 190,965 | 2,638 | 94,332 | 96,970 |
• Buses | 10,312 | 111,548 | 121,860 | 9,954 | 111,967 | 121,921 | 5,798 | 48,926 | 54,724 |
Motorcoaches | 7,838 | 25,202 | 33,040 | 7,572 | 23,824 | 31,396 | 4,541 | 9,155 | 13,696 |
DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/OOS RATES | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | Driver | Vehicle | |||
• Total Number of Truck Inspections | 3,264,557 | 2,265,207 | 3,209,768 | 2,206,503 | 1,580,747 | 1,072,802 | |||
• Total Number of Bus Inspections | 55,298 | 103,008 | 54,307 | 102,636 | 23,895 | 45,987 | |||
• Truck OOS Rate | 5.0% | 20.8% | 4.9% | 20.9% | 4.8% | 20.6% | |||
• Bus OOS Rate | 4.9% | 7.3% | 4.8% | 7.2% | 4.1% | 6.1% | |||
*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 April 29, 2016.