The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) 2015 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics highlights the Agency’s role in enforcement and in collecting and analyzing crash data and statistics to support its mission to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. It can serve as a valuable, compact resource for industry representatives, Federal agencies, and other individuals interested in motor carrier safety regulations and performance data. FMCSA created and maintains the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). MCMIS contains information on the safety performance of commercial motor carriers (large trucks and buses) and hazardous materials (HM) carriers subject to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) and Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMRs). This system contains crash, census, and inspection files created to monitor and develop safety standards for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) operating in interstate commerce. The crash file includes information on all trucks and buses involved in reportable crashes. The census file includes all descriptive information on every motor carrier in MCMIS and is updated weekly. The inspection file contains data from State and Federal inspection actions involving motor carriers operating in the United States. Most of the data included in MCMIS are collected at the roadside by State personnel under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP). In 2013, among the 255,876,822 total registered vehicles in the United States, 8,126,007 were single-unit trucks (straight trucks), 2,471,349 were combination trucks (tractor-trailers), and 864,549 were buses. Also in 2013, there were 2,988.3 billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by all motor vehicles. Large trucks traveled 275.0 billion of those miles (9.2 percent of the total), and buses traveled 15.2 billion of those miles (0.51 percent of the total). FMCSA regulates all registered commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) that operate interstate or that carry hazardous materials (HM). As of December 2014, there were 532,024 interstate motor carriers and intrastate HM motor carriers with recent activity operating in the United States: * 254,884 were for-hire carriers * 223,911 were private carriers * 43,591 were both for-hire and private carriers * 9,638 were neither for-hire nor private carriers (e.g., government). FMCSA regulates all drivers involved in interstate commerce or intrastate transportation of HM, as well as all Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) drivers both interstate and intrastate. Approximately 5.7 million* CMV drivers operate in the United States: * 3.6 million operate interstate - 3 million hold CDLs * 2.2 million operate intrastate - 900,000 hold CDLs. (Author/publisher)
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