FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · West Virginia

Unsafe Driving in West Virginia

• 8,331Violations recorded
• 10,879Registered carriers in the state
• 37,753State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. West Virginia carries 8,331 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 27 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.013 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

• 1 power unit 5,835
• 2 to 5 power units 3,728
• 6 to 20 power units 854
• 21 to 100 power units 180
• 101 to 1,000 power units 19
• 1,000 or more power units 3

Other categories recorded in West Virginia

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 72
• Crash Indicator 1,842
• Driver Fitness 2,717
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 147
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 2,966
• Vehicle Maintenance 17,433

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in West 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.