FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Carolina

Hours-of-Service Compliance in South Carolina

• 11,868Violations recorded
• 23,267Registered carriers in the state
• 109,229State inspections addressing it

Driving past the hours limits, a false log, no record of duty status. South Carolina carries 11,868 violations in this category, out of 614,689 recorded nationally, which places it 16 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.019 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 3.75.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 13,760
• 2 to 5 power units 6,263
• 6 to 20 power units 1,449
• 21 to 100 power units 428
• 101 to 1,000 power units 59
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Other categories recorded in South Carolina

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 458
• Crash Indicator 4,716
• Driver Fitness 6,081
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,280
• Unsafe Driving 17,217
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,507

Hours-of-Service Compliance across every jurisdiction → Every category in South Carolina →

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.