FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Tennessee

Hours-of-Service Compliance in Tennessee

• 13,366Violations recorded
• 23,282Registered carriers in the state
• 176,891State inspections addressing it

Driving past the hours limits, a false log, no record of duty status. Tennessee carries 13,366 violations in this category, out of 614,689 recorded nationally, which places it 15 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.022 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 12,172
• 2 to 5 power units 7,102
• 6 to 20 power units 2,082
• 21 to 100 power units 640
• 101 to 1,000 power units 144
• 1,000 or more power units 30

Other categories recorded in Tennessee

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 561
• Crash Indicator 5,986
• Driver Fitness 7,471
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 532
• Unsafe Driving 20,057
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,167

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

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.