FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Florida

Unsafe Driving in Florida

• 11,807Violations recorded
• 145,980Registered carriers in the state
• 169,957State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Florida carries 11,807 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 19 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.018 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

• 1 power unit 99,188
• 2 to 5 power units 31,227
• 6 to 20 power units 6,400
• 21 to 100 power units 1,531
• 101 to 1,000 power units 287
• 1,000 or more power units 139

Other categories recorded in Florida

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 225
• Crash Indicator 11,772
• Driver Fitness 11,329
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 914
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,823
• Vehicle Maintenance 147,348

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Florida →

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.