FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Virginia

Controlled Substances/Alcohol in Virginia

• 163Violations recorded
• 23,458Registered carriers in the state
• 48,731State inspections addressing it

Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Virginia carries 163 violations in this category, out of 14,736 recorded nationally, which places it 33 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.011 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 12,855
• 2 to 5 power units 6,599
• 6 to 20 power units 1,900
• 21 to 100 power units 581
• 101 to 1,000 power units 96
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Other categories recorded in Virginia

• Crash Indicator 6,735
• Driver Fitness 3,799
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 340
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,295
• Unsafe Driving 2,926
• Vehicle Maintenance 45,999

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

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.