Velarion Records

FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Washington

Unsafe Driving in Washington

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. Washington carries 21,909 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 7 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.034 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

Other categories recorded in Washington

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in Washington →

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.

What this page shows

The Velarion Records public-records register page covers Unsafe Driving in Washington under the FMCSA Safety Measurement System. It lists 21,909 violations, 48,823 registered carriers in the state, and 129,125 state inspections addressing it. The page also lists the state's carriers by fleet size: 27,758 with 1 power unit, 15,181 with 2 to 5 power units, 3,691 with 6 to 20 power units, 885 with 21 to 100 power units, 104 with 101 to 1,000 power units, and 50 with 1,000 or more power units.