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FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Minnesota

Unsafe Driving in Minnesota

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Minnesota carries 12,036 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 18 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.019 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

Other categories recorded in Minnesota

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Minnesota →

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 prints the FMCSA Safety Measurement System register for Unsafe Driving in Minnesota, with 12,036 violations recorded and 73,836 registered carriers in the state. It lists 55,355 state inspections addressing the category and places Minnesota 18 of 51 jurisdictions, with a share of the national figure of 0.019 as a fraction. The state's carriers by fleet size are 39,818 with 1 power unit, 22,999 with 2 to 5 power units, 4,934 with 6 to 20 power units, 1,109 with 21 to 100 power units, 175 with 101 to 1,000 power units, and 52 with 1,000 or more power units.