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

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Motor Carrier Safety Progress Report
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
(as of December 31, 2012)

MCMIS SAFETY OUTCOMES* CY 2010 CY 2011* CY 2012*
(01/01/2012 – 09/30/2012)
CRASHES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 129,586 129,743 90,099
            Large Trucks 115,997 116,434 80,595
            Buses 14,016 13,759 9,849
    FATALITIES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 4,273 4,029 2,995
            Large Trucks 3,957 3,754 2,822
            Buses 328 297 190
    INJURIES
  • Large Trucks and Buses
  • 80,606 79,143 56,259
            Large Trucks 64,827 64,181 45,185
            Buses 16,741 16,092 11,861
    *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 2011 FY 2012* FY 2013*
    (10/01/2012 – 12/31/2012)
    Federal State Federal State Federal State
  • Warning Letters
  • 40,944 24,126 5,616
    CARRIER REVIEWS
  • Total Reviews Performed
  • 11,086 7,336 12,365 7,845 2,650 1,815
            Hazardous Material (HM) Reviews 1,176 867 909 731 210 186
            Household Goods Reviews 292 11 247 1 47 2
            Passenger Carrier Reviews** 1,263 472 1,390 502 147 88
                Motorcoach Reviews** 859 196 913 213 82 27
            BY REVIEWS IN PHASED COMPLIANCE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITY (CSA) STATES
            • Total Reviews Performed 8,853 4,982 10,165 5,541 2,162 1,396
                Full Compliance Reviews 4,461 3,531 2,741 2,632 511 681
                Focused Compliance Reviews 3,260 1,081 6,126 2,483 1,440 654
                Other 1,132 370 1,298 426 211 61
            BY INVESTIGATIONS IN 100% CSA STATES – AK, CO, DE, GA, KS, NJ, MD, MN, MO, MT
            • Total Reviews Performed 2,233 2,354 2,200 2,304 488 419
                On-Site Comprehensive Investigations 524 812 459 809 65 113
                On-Site Focused Investigations 992 772 1,065 685 271 144
                Off-Site Investigations 317 299 233 340 52 44
                Other 400 471 443 470 100 118
    INVESTIGATION FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS
  • Cooperative Safety Plans (CSPs)
  • 479 402 55
  • Notice of Claims (NOC)
  • 6,903 6,970 1,300
  • Notice of Violations (NOV)
  • 138 206 26
  • Unsat/Unfit Out-of-Service (OOS) Orders
  • 912 855 197
  • 90-Day No-Pay OOS Orders
  • 1,644 1,557 430
  • Imminent Hazard OOS Orders
  • 10 48 5
    NEW ENTRANT SAFETY AUDITS
  • Total New Entrant Safety Audits
        (Percent Completed on Time)
  • 34,276
    (87.2%)
    34,349
    (88.3%)
    7,171
    (94.2%)
  • New Entrant Pass Rate
  • 65.0% 74.1% 78.6%
    INCREASING SAFETY AND SECURITY AWARENESS
  • HM Package Inspections
  • 4,718 4,813 630
  • Security Contact Reviews
  • 905 721 179
    ROADSIDE INSPECTIONS
    Total Truck and Bus Inspections 3,601,759 3,579,326 807,296
  • Trucks
  • 130,856 3,355,457 128,484 3,326,637 28,233 753,857
            HM Trucks 4,969 203,613 4,056 199,983 1,023 43,744
  • Buses
  • 11,842 103,604 11,339 112,866 1,889 23,317
            Motorcoaches 8,750 20,235 8,479 27,321 1,477 5,892
    DRIVER/VEHICLE INSPECTIONS/
    OOS RATES
    Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle Driver Vehicle
  • Total Number of Truck Inspections
  • 3,430,796 2,330,383 3,400,254 2,338,940 773,925 525,411
  • Total Number of Bus Inspections
  • 54,121 95,811 61,737 101,701 13,571 19,940
  • Truck OOS Rate
  • 5.0% 20.8% 4.9% 20.8% 4.9% 20.4%
  • Bus OOS Rate
  • 5.9% 6.9% 5.3% 6.8% 4.8% 6.1%
    *Data are considered preliminary for 18 months.
    **Changed to include non-ratable reviews.
    Source: All data from Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), as of January 25, 2013.

     
     
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