FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Dakota

Unsafe Driving in South Dakota

• 1,565Violations recorded
• 6,105Registered carriers in the state
• 59,509State inspections addressing it

Moving violations while operating a commercial motor vehicle -- speeding, following too close, an improper lane change, reckless driving. South Dakota carries 1,565 violations in this category, out of 649,893 recorded nationally, which places it 45 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.002 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 2,796
• 2 to 5 power units 2,318
• 6 to 20 power units 667
• 21 to 100 power units 173
• 101 to 1,000 power units 24
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Other categories recorded in South Dakota

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol in SD 127
• Crash Indicator in SD 758
• Driver Fitness in SD 1,559
• Hazardous Materials Compliance in SD 201
• Hours-of-Service Compliance in SD 7,155
• Vehicle Maintenance in SD 21,542

Unsafe Driving across every jurisdiction → Every category in South Dakota →

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.