FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Kentucky

Unsafe Driving in Kentucky

• 10,271Violations recorded
• 42,274Registered carriers in the state
• 113,726State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Kentucky carries 10,271 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 22 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.016 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 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
• Driver Fitness 5,095
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 267
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 6,334
• Vehicle Maintenance 61,765

Unsafe Driving 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.