Preview Preview: 16,180 carriers of roughly 4.5 million registered — a deliberate mix of currently active carriers and ones deactivated within the past year. Coverage is expanding. Sourced from the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census. Data as of 2026-09-09.

Carriers rated satisfactory by FMCSA

3,316 of the 16,180 carriers CarrierHelm holds sit in this group. These are records we hold, not the whole federal register — the share is of this corpus.

Preview: 16,180 carriers of roughly 4.5 million registered — a deliberate mix of currently active carriers and ones deactivated within the past year. Coverage is expanding. Data as of 2026-09-09.

3,316Carriers on file 20.5% of the 16K we hold
690KPower units Trucks and tractors they operate
641KDrivers As filed on their own MCS-150
60States and territories Where they are based

Largest fleets

Where they are based

Physical address state, as filed on the MCS-150.

ValuecarriersShare
Pennsylvania 269
Missouri 175
Ohio 147
New York 147
Kansas 145
Massachusetts 137
Wisconsin 136
New Jersey 129
Illinois 102
Washington 97
Texas 97
Nebraska 94

Operating range

ValuecarriersShare
Interstate 3,240
Intrastate, non-hazardous materials 76

How they are organised

ValuecarriersShare
CORPORATION 2,932
INDIVIDUAL 257
PARTNERSHIP 52

Other safety ratings

Every safety rating declared by a carrier on file, most common first.

Reading these numbers

The denominator is our corpus, not the country. CarrierHelm holds a systematic sample of the FMCSA register — currently active carriers plus ones deactivated within the past year, over-represented on purpose so the deactivated case is visible at all. A count here describes what we hold. It moves when the corpus does.

A safety rating is assigned only after a compliance review, so most carriers have none at all — an unrated carrier is not an unsafe one. The rating reflects the review, and reviews can be years apart.

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