FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · North Dakota

Unsafe Driving in North Dakota

• 1,900Violations recorded
• 6,241Registered carriers in the state
• 25,082State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. North Dakota carries 1,900 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 44 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.003 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 2,728
• 2 to 5 power units 2,239
• 6 to 20 power units 860
• 21 to 100 power units 249
• 101 to 1,000 power units 45
• 1,000 or more power units 0

Other categories recorded in North Dakota

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 52
• Crash Indicator 797
• Driver Fitness 540
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 311
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 2,052
• Vehicle Maintenance 20,398

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in North Dakota →

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.