I want to walk through one code that fleets tend to underestimate. 392.2-SLLS3 is the state and local speeding violation for running 11 to 14 miles per hour over the posted limit. The roadside officer does not put the truck out of service for it. Many safety managers read that as a minor item. It is not minor in the scoring, because it lands in the Unsafe Driving BASIC, and that is where carriers get surprised.
What the code actually says
Section 392.2 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations requires that a commercial motor vehicle be operated in accordance with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the jurisdiction where it is being operated. You can read the text on eCFR.
FMCSA does not set the speed limit. The state, county, or city does. What 392.2 does is make a state or local speeding offense a federal inspection violation as well. The code's group label in the data I work from is "Speeding 3," which is the band covering 11 to 14 miles per hour over. The other speeding bands cover different ranges, so a 9-over and a 16-over are coded differently, and they do not score the same.
The practical point: a driver who pays a speeding ticket on a roadside stop has given the inspector a second record. The ticket goes to the state. The inspection violation goes to your carrier's SMS profile.
Where it sits in the scoring
Every violation carries a severity weight. For 392.2-SLLS3 that weight is 7. Severity is not the whole calculation, though. Two other mechanics shape what this citation does to your score over time.
Time weighting. The calculator sorts each violation by age and applies a time weight tier:
- 0 to 6 months: weight 3
- 6 to 12 months: weight 2
- 12 to 24 months: weight 1
- More than 24 months: weight 0
A fresh speeding citation counts for much more than the same citation a year later. This is why a single bad quarter hurts, and why a clean stretch recovers. If you want to see how one citation moves your own numbers, the calculator applies these tiers against inspection dates.
The severity cap. The calculator caps severity at 30 per inspection per BASIC. That keeps one roadside stop with several violations from dominating the score on its own. It does not change how a single 392.2-SLLS3 scores, since one speeding citation at weight 7 sits well under that ceiling.
No OOS bonus. The calculator adds an out-of-service bonus of 2 for qualifying violations, but Unsafe Driving is on the exempt list for that bonus. This code is also not flagged as an out-of-service indicator. So neither mechanism applies here. The only thing carrying this citation into your score is its severity weight and its age.
What the numbers show
As of 2026-10-20, the dataset shows 146,533 recorded violations of 392.2-SLLS3, across 146,510 inspections. The out-of-service count is 5, and the out-of-service rate rounds to 0.
Read those figures carefully. The rate is zero because the code is not an out-of-service indicator, not because drivers are being cited without consequence. The five out-of-service records are worth looking at individually, since they do not follow the code's usual treatment, but they are a tiny fraction of the total. The violation and inspection counts are nearly the same size, which tells you this code usually appears as a single event within an inspection rather than piling up. I would not build a fleet-wide conclusion on those counts alone. Pull your own inspection records and check them against the code.
What I would do on your side
Speeding citations at roadside are usually a symptom of schedule pressure, not a driver who decided to ignore the limit. Three things to check:
- Speed governor and cruise settings. Confirm what your units are set to and whether that matches your routes.
- Dispatch ETAs. If the appointment window only works at the posted limit plus a margin, the pressure is coming from the schedule, and training alone will not fix it.
- Route planning through school and work zones. Those are where a 14-over ticket is most likely to happen with little warning.
Key takeaways
- 392.2-SLLS3 covers state and local speeding at 11 to 14 mph over the limit, under the Speeding 3 group.
- Its severity weight is 7, and it is not an out-of-service indicator.
- Time weighting matters: a citation in the last 6 months weighs 3, and it drops to 0 after 24 months.
- Unsafe Driving is exempt from the calculator's out-of-service bonus, so that bonus does not apply here.
- The fix is usually in dispatch and route planning, not only in the driver's foot.
For the BASIC terms used above, the glossary defines each one. The rule text itself is short, and it is worth reading once with your dispatchers in the room.