FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Illinois motor carriers

• 50,233Registered carriers
• 133,427Inspections on file
• 8,643Reportable crashes
• 191Fatal crashes
• 12,794Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 5,882Hazardous materials inspections
• 372Hazmat carriers
• 449Passenger carriers

The census registers 50,233 motor carriers in Illinois, 372 of them carrying hazardous materials and 449 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 133,427, 12,794 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 8,643 reportable crashes, 191 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 252 · 24 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 8,643 · 10 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 5,149 · 22 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 675 · 14 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 10,558 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 10,122 · 23 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 36,714 · 32 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Illinois

• 1 power unit 24,267
• 2 to 5 power units 15,696
• 6 to 20 power units 5,285
• 21 to 100 power units 2,170
• 101 to 1,000 power units 459
• 1,000 or more power units 45

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 15,807
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 33,907
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 519

Towns the carriers are based in

Chicago (5,695) · Aurora (786) · Schaumburg (761) · Plainfield (716) · Naperville (633) · Joliet (586) · Des Plaines (573) · Rockford (499) · Elk Grove Village (419) · Elgin (404) · Bolingbrook (374) · Arlington Heights (327) · Romeoville (324) · Orland Park (313) · Addison (294) · Wheeling (292) · Palatine (276) · Springfield (273) · Bensenville (256) · Belleville (243) · Mount Prospect (242) · Willowbrook (242) · Quincy (231) · Oak Lawn (229) · Tinley Park (228)

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.