FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · North Carolina

Hazardous Materials Compliance in North Carolina

• 200Violations recorded
• 50,694Registered carriers in the state
• 6,155State inspections addressing it

Packaging, placarding and handling of hazardous materials. North Carolina carries 200 violations in this category, out of 42,552 recorded nationally, which places it 39 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.005 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 4.5.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 27,997
• 2 to 5 power units 15,162
• 6 to 20 power units 3,813
• 21 to 100 power units 872
• 101 to 1,000 power units 173
• 1,000 or more power units 43

Other categories recorded in North Carolina

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol in NC 272
• Crash Indicator in NC 8,955
• Driver Fitness in NC 8,864
• Hours-of-Service Compliance in NC 7,908
• Unsafe Driving in NC 8,686
• Vehicle Maintenance in NC 47,700

Hazardous Materials Compliance across every jurisdiction → Every category in North Carolina →

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.