FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Kansas

Unsafe Driving in Kansas

• 5,166Violations recorded
• 18,220Registered carriers in the state
• 69,498State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Kansas carries 5,166 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 35 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.008 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 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
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 496
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 14,564
• Vehicle Maintenance 54,974

Unsafe Driving 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.