FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Louisiana

Unsafe Driving in Louisiana

• 16,829Violations recorded
• 11,164Registered carriers in the state
• 89,362State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Louisiana carries 16,829 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 14 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.026 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 6,271
• 2 to 5 power units 2,871
• 6 to 20 power units 951
• 21 to 100 power units 315
• 101 to 1,000 power units 54
• 1,000 or more power units 15

Other categories recorded in Louisiana

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 150
• Crash Indicator 5,227
• Driver Fitness 3,395
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 630
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,588
• Vehicle Maintenance 40,681

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Louisiana →

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.