FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Dakota

Driver Fitness in South Dakota

• 1,559Violations recorded
• 6,105Registered carriers in the state
• 59,509State inspections addressing it

Operating without a valid licence, medical certificate or the required endorsement. South Dakota carries 1,559 violations in this category, out of 395,539 recorded nationally, which places it 43 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 4.22.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 2,796
• 2 to 5 power units 2,318
• 6 to 20 power units 667
• 21 to 100 power units 173
• 101 to 1,000 power units 24
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Other categories recorded in South Dakota

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 127
• Crash Indicator 758
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 201
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,155
• Unsafe Driving 1,565
• Vehicle Maintenance 21,542

Driver Fitness across every jurisdiction → Every category in South Dakota →

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.