FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Rhode Island

Controlled Substances/Alcohol in Rhode Island

• 32Violations recorded
• 4,065Registered carriers in the state
• 7,489State inspections addressing it

Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Rhode Island carries 32 violations in this category, out of 14,736 recorded nationally, which places it 47 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.002 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 8.55.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 2,067
• 2 to 5 power units 1,400
• 6 to 20 power units 374
• 21 to 100 power units 83
• 101 to 1,000 power units 17
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Other categories recorded in Rhode Island

• Crash Indicator 243
• Driver Fitness 1,152
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 60
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 674
• Unsafe Driving 2,638
• Vehicle Maintenance 4,845

Controlled Substances/Alcohol across every jurisdiction → Every category in Rhode Island →

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.