FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Kansas motor carriers

• 18,220Registered carriers
• 69,780Inspections on file
• 2,858Reportable crashes
• 91Fatal crashes
• 10,129Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 4,755Hazardous materials inspections
• 123Hazmat carriers
• 203Passenger carriers

The census registers 18,220 motor carriers in Kansas, 123 of them carrying hazardous materials and 203 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 69,780, 10,129 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 2,858 reportable crashes, 91 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 272 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 2,858 · 32 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 4,698 · 26 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 496 · 23 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 14,564 · 13 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 5,166 · 35 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 54,974 · 23 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Kansas

• 1 power unit 8,198
• 2 to 5 power units 6,914
• 6 to 20 power units 2,110
• 21 to 100 power units 515
• 101 to 1,000 power units 83
• 1,000 or more power units 7

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 9,408
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 8,065
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 747

Towns the carriers are based in

Wichita (1,892) · Kansas City (739) · Topeka (650) · Olathe (621) · Garden City (488) · Overland Park (462) · Lawrence (326) · Lenexa (286) · Hutchinson (285) · Salina (256) · Shawnee (255) · Dodge City (254) · Manhattan (206) · Hays (204) · Great Bend (192) · Liberal (190) · Ulysses (153) · Newton (132) · Leavenworth (127) · El Dorado (119) · Paola (117) · Emporia (110) · Pittsburg (110) · Pratt (103) · Gardner (101)

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.