FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Ohio

Unsafe Driving in Ohio

• 11,156Violations recorded
• 48,287Registered carriers in the state
• 124,345State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Ohio carries 11,156 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 20 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.017 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 23,959
• 2 to 5 power units 14,447
• 6 to 20 power units 5,096
• 21 to 100 power units 1,650
• 101 to 1,000 power units 329
• 1,000 or more power units 51

Other categories recorded in Ohio

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 415
• Crash Indicator 9,296
• Driver Fitness 5,435
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,923
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,793
• Vehicle Maintenance 77,601

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Ohio →

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.