FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Mississippi

Unsafe Driving in Mississippi

• 6,441Violations recorded
• 11,364Registered carriers in the state
• 79,096State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Mississippi carries 6,441 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 33 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.010 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 6,514
• 2 to 5 power units 3,181
• 6 to 20 power units 910
• 21 to 100 power units 220
• 101 to 1,000 power units 57
• 1,000 or more power units 11

Other categories recorded in Mississippi

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 570
• Crash Indicator 2,597
• Driver Fitness 3,421
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 138
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 10,419
• Vehicle Maintenance 23,924

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Mississippi →

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.