FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Rhode Island

Unsafe Driving in Rhode Island

• 2,638Violations recorded
• 4,065Registered carriers in the state
• 7,489State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Rhode Island carries 2,638 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 40 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.004 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 2,067
• 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

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 32
• Crash Indicator 243
• Driver Fitness 1,152
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 60
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 674
• Vehicle Maintenance 4,845

Unsafe Driving 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.