FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Carolina

Unsafe Driving in South Carolina

• 17,217Violations recorded
• 23,267Registered carriers in the state
• 109,229State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. South Carolina carries 17,217 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 13 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.026 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 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
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,868
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,507

Unsafe Driving 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.