FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Kansas

Hazardous Materials Compliance in Kansas

• 496Violations recorded
• 18,220Registered carriers in the state
• 3,317State inspections addressing it

Packaging, placarding and handling of hazardous materials. Kansas carries 496 violations in this category, out of 42,552 recorded nationally, which places it 23 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.012 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 4.5.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 8,198
• 2 to 5 power units 6,914
• 6 to 20 power units 2,110
• 21 to 100 power units 515
• 101 to 1,000 power units 83
• 1,000 or more power units 7

Other categories recorded in Kansas

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 272
• Crash Indicator 2,858
• Driver Fitness 4,698
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 14,564
• Unsafe Driving 5,166
• Vehicle Maintenance 54,974

Hazardous Materials Compliance across every jurisdiction → Every category in Kansas →

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.