FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Alabama motor carriers

• 33,702Registered carriers
• 90,300Inspections on file
• 5,765Reportable crashes
• 190Fatal crashes
• 17,652Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,993Hazardous materials inspections
• 119Hazmat carriers
• 273Passenger carriers

The census registers 33,702 motor carriers in Alabama, 119 of them carrying hazardous materials and 273 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 90,300, 17,652 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 5,765 reportable crashes, 190 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 306 · 18 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 5,765 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 6,614 · 14 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 508 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 21,345 · 10 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 7,427 · 31 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 98,449 · 10 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Alabama

• 1 power unit 18,569
• 2 to 5 power units 11,219
• 6 to 20 power units 2,315
• 21 to 100 power units 519
• 101 to 1,000 power units 109
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 23,524
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 9,568
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 610

Towns the carriers are based in

Birmingham (1,633) · Mobile (1,145) · Montgomery (1,133) · Huntsville (784) · Dothan (496) · Tuscaloosa (478) · Cullman (430) · Athens (329) · Bessemer (324) · Decatur (320) · Florence (305) · Gadsden (304) · Phenix City (301) · Jasper (287) · Opelika (270) · Wetumpka (265) · Anniston (263) · Madison (258) · Albertville (250) · Northport (250) · Prattville (246) · Theodore (241) · Selma (230) · Boaz (227) · Troy (222)

Unsafe Driving is the category a broker is most often shown first. Every jurisdiction →

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. A category’s rank is the register’s own count for this jurisdiction set against the same count for the other jurisdictions on the desk, and the town names are the census’s own spelling.