FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Texas

Controlled Substances/Alcohol in Texas

• 871Violations recorded
• 179,036Registered carriers in the state
• 680,170State inspections addressing it

Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Texas carries 871 violations in this category, out of 14,736 recorded nationally, which places it 2 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.059 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 8.55.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 110,976
• 2 to 5 power units 46,398
• 6 to 20 power units 11,012
• 21 to 100 power units 3,012
• 101 to 1,000 power units 580
• 1,000 or more power units 126

Other categories recorded in Texas

• Crash Indicator 26,268
• Driver Fitness 62,532
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 12,784
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 43,636
• Unsafe Driving 10,296
• Vehicle Maintenance 1,367,101

Controlled Substances/Alcohol across every jurisdiction → Every category in Texas →

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.