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FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Alabama

Unsafe Driving in Alabama

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Alabama carries 7,427 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 31 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.011 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here. Nationally, a violation in this category carries an average severity weight of 5.55.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

Other categories recorded in Alabama

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Alabama →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. The rank is taken over the jurisdictions this desk publishes, and the national figure beside it is the register’s own total for the category.

What this page shows

The Velarion Records public-records register page covers Unsafe Driving in Alabama, listing 7,427 violations recorded and 33,702 registered carriers in the state. It states 89,496 state inspections addressing the category and that Alabama's 7,427 violations come out of 649,893 recorded nationally, placing it 31 of 51 jurisdictions. The page also lists Alabama carriers by fleet size: 18,569 with 1 power unit, 11,219 with 2 to 5 power units, 2,315 with 6 to 20 power units, 519 with 21 to 100 power units, 109 with 101 to 1,000 power units, and 23 with 1,000 or more power units.