FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Kentucky

Driver Fitness in Kentucky

• 5,095Violations recorded
• 42,274Registered carriers in the state
• 113,726State inspections addressing it

Operating without a valid licence, medical certificate or the required endorsement. Kentucky carries 5,095 violations in this category, out of 395,539 recorded nationally, which places it 23 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.013 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 4.22.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 24,578
• 2 to 5 power units 13,291
• 6 to 20 power units 2,525
• 21 to 100 power units 573
• 101 to 1,000 power units 68
• 1,000 or more power units 18

Other categories recorded in Kentucky

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 185
• Crash Indicator 5,357
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 267
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 6,334
• Unsafe Driving 10,271
• Vehicle Maintenance 61,765

Driver Fitness across every jurisdiction → Every category in Kentucky →

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.