Preview Preview: 15,813 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 2026-09-08.

Trucking carriers based in Rhode Island

How Rhode Island carriers fare at the roadside, measured against every other state, from federal inspection and crash records.

471Roadside inspections rolling three-year window
397Crashes on file 2.0% involved a fatality
1,147Power units across 54 carriers on file

Largest carriers

CarrierPower units DriversInspections Out of service
NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY 676584 80.0%
TEXTRON INC 8647 100.0%
R J CARBONE CO & ROBERT J CARBONE 3624 4112.2%
RHODY TRANSPORTATION & WAREHOUSING INC 2730 1010.0%
RAMBONE DISPOSAL SERVICES INC 2318
FRANK DUPUIS COMPANY 2018 40.0%
MARWELL TRUCKING INC 1817 1618.8%
MCLAUGHLIN & MORAN INC 1732
QUALITY BEEF CO INC 1716 2334.8%
GREYLAWN FOODS INC 169 6616.7%
TOURTELLOT & CO INC 1617 342.9%
PHILS BOTTLED GAS SERVICE CO INC 1515 425.0%
CENTRAL PAPER COMPANY INC 1321 7614.5%
SUNSHINE OIL CO INC 1210 250.0%
L & D JOHNSON ENTERPRISES INC 113
CONTRACTORS SUPPLY INC 1011 1030.0%
M SOLOMON CASKET CO 1010 585.2%
THE HENRY GONSALVES CO 109 714.3%
NORTH SMITHFIELD FENCE INC 96
TEKNOR APEX COMPANY 88 1100.0%

Compare with another state

The twelve highest out-of-service rates on file.

Reading these numbers

These are rates, not totals. A count of carriers here describes the records we hold, not everything Rhode Island has on the road. A rate does not depend on how much of the state we hold, which is why it is the figure on this page. It is weighted by inspections, so a few large carriers move it more than many small ones.

An out-of-service order means an inspector found something serious enough to stop the vehicle or driver until it was fixed. The rate counts inspections that ended in such an order, over inspections performed — not violations, several of which can come from one inspection. A crash on a carrier’s record is not a finding of fault. We hold too few inspections in this state to give a rate.

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