DOT Roadside Inspection Statistics by State
How many commercial vehicle inspections each state runs, which CVSA levels they use, and how many violations come out of them.
The Six Inspection Levels
Every roadside inspection in the United States is classified under a North American Standard level, and the level decides what the inspector is allowed to look at. Three of them account for almost everything that happens at a scale.
- Level I — the full North American Standard inspection. Driver credentials, hours, and a complete vehicle examination including the brakes, which means the inspector goes under the truck. 26% of 2025 inspections.
- Level II — walk-around. Everything in Level I that can be checked without physically getting underneath. 35% of inspections.
- Level III — driver-only. Licence, medical card, hours of service, seat belt, paperwork. The truck is not examined. 36% of inspections.
- Level IV — a one-off special inspection, usually to check a single item for a study or a campaign.
- Level V — vehicle-only, conducted without the driver present, typically at a carrier's terminal.
- Level VI — enhanced inspection for radioactive shipments, with its own criteria and its own decal.
A clean Level I or Level V inspection earns a CVSA decal that generally exempts the vehicle from re-inspection for the rest of the quarter in which it was issued — which is why the level split below matters as much as the raw count.
Inspection Volume and Level Mix (2025)
Level shares are of that state's total inspections and will not sum to 100% — Levels IV through VI make up the remainder. "Viol/Insp" is violations written per inspection, which tracks thoroughness more closely than the out-of-service rate does.
| State | Inspections | Level I | Level II | Level III | Violations | Viol/Insp | OOS Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 439,349 | 39% | 29% | 18% | 473,834 | 1.08 | 15.2% |
| Texas | 312,378 | 28% | 66% | 6% | 910,545 | 2.91 | 26.7% |
| New York | 113,366 | 15% | 52% | 32% | 219,167 | 1.93 | 21.1% |
| North Carolina | 109,093 | 15% | 31% | 53% | 53,833 | 0.49 | 11.7% |
| New Mexico | 91,742 | 18% | 48% | 34% | 53,918 | 0.59 | 11.6% |
| Florida | 86,683 | 14% | 37% | 49% | 136,299 | 1.57 | 17.4% |
| Tennessee | 85,425 | 42% | 15% | 42% | 73,120 | 0.86 | 23.1% |
| Maryland | 79,498 | 25% | 63% | 8% | 104,244 | 1.31 | 22.4% |
| Pennsylvania | 78,300 | 25% | 26% | 48% | 145,186 | 1.85 | 18.0% |
| Georgia | 75,772 | 16% | 13% | 70% | 152,466 | 2.01 | 16.5% |
| Illinois | 62,200 | 8% | 18% | 74% | 38,843 | 0.62 | 7.6% |
| Ohio | 61,892 | 14% | 39% | 43% | 72,946 | 1.18 | 16.3% |
| Washington | 60,587 | 14% | 40% | 46% | 108,924 | 1.80 | 21.6% |
| Kentucky | 56,065 | 40% | 24% | 36% | 66,201 | 1.18 | 20.8% |
| Missouri | 54,818 | 24% | 45% | 29% | 107,157 | 1.95 | 25.7% |
| Indiana | 53,479 | 11% | 31% | 58% | 98,763 | 1.85 | 14.8% |
| South Carolina | 52,751 | 14% | 24% | 62% | 88,004 | 1.67 | 18.1% |
| Arizona | 51,483 | 21% | 53% | 26% | 152,101 | 2.95 | 28.0% |
| New Jersey | 49,958 | 28% | 34% | 36% | 68,587 | 1.37 | 16.3% |
| Colorado | 48,749 | 17% | 28% | 54% | 75,007 | 1.54 | 14.6% |
| Arkansas | 45,580 | 15% | 14% | 71% | 53,009 | 1.16 | 15.4% |
| Michigan | 43,668 | 16% | 35% | 46% | 86,145 | 1.97 | 20.6% |
| Alabama | 43,056 | 11% | 47% | 41% | 83,744 | 1.95 | 18.8% |
| Mississippi | 42,985 | 20% | 30% | 50% | 33,217 | 0.77 | 11.3% |
| Louisiana | 41,586 | 14% | 27% | 59% | 50,851 | 1.22 | 14.7% |
| Iowa | 35,627 | 14% | 32% | 54% | 90,150 | 2.53 | 22.0% |
| Utah | 35,303 | 34% | 7% | 58% | 66,067 | 1.87 | 17.7% |
| Kansas | 34,126 | 14% | 50% | 35% | 59,735 | 1.75 | 10.8% |
| Wisconsin | 33,968 | 25% | 47% | 28% | 85,715 | 2.52 | 24.9% |
| Oklahoma | 32,654 | 24% | 34% | 42% | 46,138 | 1.41 | 17.9% |
| Montana | 29,756 | 14% | 35% | 50% | 29,180 | 0.98 | 15.4% |
| South Dakota | 29,374 | 11% | 21% | 68% | 23,074 | 0.79 | 12.9% |
| Massachusetts | 27,739 | 10% | 18% | 64% | 57,278 | 2.06 | 19.9% |
| Minnesota | 27,452 | 30% | 11% | 57% | 58,457 | 2.13 | 22.0% |
| Nebraska | 24,613 | 11% | 10% | 78% | 30,852 | 1.25 | 12.5% |
| Virginia | 22,313 | 27% | 21% | 51% | 37,260 | 1.67 | 18.0% |
| Nevada | 21,992 | 13% | 39% | 47% | 29,834 | 1.36 | 14.4% |
| Connecticut | 20,588 | 22% | 35% | 41% | 50,391 | 2.45 | 26.5% |
| Oregon | 19,227 | 23% | 29% | 46% | 28,792 | 1.50 | 30.4% |
| West Virginia | 18,692 | 11% | 56% | 31% | 20,869 | 1.12 | 13.9% |
| Maine | 14,431 | 28% | 32% | 39% | 13,219 | 0.92 | 15.7% |
| Wyoming | 14,228 | 44% | 21% | 34% | 30,049 | 2.11 | 33.2% |
| North Dakota | 10,938 | 21% | 36% | 43% | 15,826 | 1.45 | 13.8% |
| Idaho | 10,464 | 37% | 31% | 31% | 22,962 | 2.19 | 22.7% |
| Vermont | 8,516 | 16% | 35% | 48% | 10,095 | 1.19 | 17.2% |
| New Hampshire | 8,484 | 16% | 28% | 56% | 10,872 | 1.28 | 14.5% |
| Delaware | 7,895 | 19% | 38% | 42% | 7,609 | 0.96 | 22.6% |
| Alaska | 7,650 | 25% | 32% | 43% | 8,867 | 1.16 | 15.3% |
| Rhode Island | 3,379 | 29% | 9% | 60% | 6,890 | 2.04 | 19.7% |
| Hawaii | 2,311 | 53% | 13% | 33% | 3,438 | 1.49 | 15.7% |
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National Inspection Totals by Year
| Year | Inspections | With OOS | OOS Rate | OOS Violations | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 partial | 2,386,819 | 492,924 | 20.7% | 765,515 | through 2026-10-22 |
| 2025 | 2,853,645 | 532,384 | 18.7% | 806,138 | full year |
| 2024 | 2,604,693 | 457,386 | 17.6% | 672,960 | full year |
Totals include inspections reported by the territories and by federal inspectors, which is why they run slightly above the sum of the fifty state rows above.
Before Your Next Inspection
Data Sources
FMCSA Vehicle Inspection File — Roadside inspections, violations, and out-of-service orders. Rebuilt daily. The violation ranking comes from FMCSA's companion violation file, a rolling snapshot of roughly the last three years.
All figures are US federal government data in the public domain. We total them by state and present them as filed.
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