FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Delaware motor carriers

• 4,611Registered carriers
• 16,898Inspections on file
• 903Reportable crashes
• 8Fatal crashes
• 3,788Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 891Hazardous materials inspections
• 31Hazmat carriers
• 97Passenger carriers

The census registers 4,611 motor carriers in Delaware, 31 of them carrying hazardous materials and 97 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 16,898, 3,788 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 903 reportable crashes, 8 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 26 · 49 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 903 · 43 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 1,113 · 47 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 15 · 51 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 343 · 49 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 3,886 · 37 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 5,840 · 48 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Delaware

• 1 power unit 2,374
• 2 to 5 power units 1,405
• 6 to 20 power units 389
• 21 to 100 power units 124
• 101 to 1,000 power units 16
• 1,000 or more power units 3

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 1,395
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 3,075
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 141

Towns the carriers are based in

Wilmington (745) · Newark (514) · New Castle (422) · Dover (347) · Bear (227) · Middletown (214) · Seaford (186) · Smyrna (138) · Laurel (130) · Millsboro (127) · Georgetown (110) · Milford (105) · Bridgeville (86) · Lewes (86) · Townsend (84) · Delmar (81) · Felton (77) · Greenwood (75) · Harrington (73) · Milton (66) · Selbyville (65) · Claymont (64) · Frankford (61) · Hartly (43) · Hockessin (42)

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.