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FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Massachusetts

Controlled Substances/Alcohol in Massachusetts

Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Massachusetts carries 325 violations in this category, out of 14,736 recorded nationally, which places it 16 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.022 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 8.55.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

Other categories recorded in Massachusetts

Controlled Substances/Alcohol across every jurisdiction → Every category in Massachusetts →

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.

What this page shows

The page covers the Massachusetts Controlled Substances/Alcohol category in the FMCSA Safety Measurement System register, with 325 violations recorded and 38,110 registered carriers in the state. The figures cover 47,226 state inspections addressing driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Massachusetts carries 325 violations out of 14,736 recorded nationally, placing it 16 of 51 jurisdictions, and the national average severity weight for this category is 8.55.