FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · New York

Unsafe Driving in New York

• 18,581Violations recorded
• 125,239Registered carriers in the state
• 219,188State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. New York carries 18,581 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 10 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.029 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 70,959
• 2 to 5 power units 39,977
• 6 to 20 power units 7,853
• 21 to 100 power units 1,387
• 101 to 1,000 power units 233
• 1,000 or more power units 122

Other categories recorded in New York

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 547
• Crash Indicator 4,943
• Driver Fitness 27,576
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,045
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 25,761
• Vehicle Maintenance 208,717

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in New York →

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.