FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Colorado motor carriers

• 48,899Registered carriers
• 96,851Inspections on file
• 3,480Reportable crashes
• 125Fatal crashes
• 14,553Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,390Hazardous materials inspections
• 146Hazmat carriers
• 478Passenger carriers

The census registers 48,899 motor carriers in Colorado, 146 of them carrying hazardous materials and 478 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 96,851, 14,553 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 3,480 reportable crashes, 125 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 282 · 19 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 3,480 · 27 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 5,392 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 610 · 17 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 20,267 · 11 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 6,133 · 34 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 71,784 · 18 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Colorado

• 1 power unit 26,979
• 2 to 5 power units 15,675
• 6 to 20 power units 3,643
• 21 to 100 power units 859
• 101 to 1,000 power units 131
• 1,000 or more power units 42

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 38,921
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 8,869
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,109

Towns the carriers are based in

Denver (6,431) · Aurora (3,223) · Colorado Springs (2,821) · Commerce City (1,291) · Greeley (1,281) · Thornton (1,086) · Brighton (999) · Littleton (969) · Pueblo (862) · Lakewood (853) · Grand Junction (828) · Longmont (806) · Englewood (785) · Arvada (736) · Colorado Spgs (681) · Fort Collins (636) · Loveland (636) · Parker (522) · Montrose (495) · Westminster (479) · Centennial (454) · Fort Lupton (447) · Golden (420) · Castle Rock (377) · Durango (351)

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.