FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Kentucky motor carriers

• 42,274Registered carriers
• 113,855Inspections on file
• 5,357Reportable crashes
• 135Fatal crashes
• 24,284Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 8,922Hazardous materials inspections
• 101Hazmat carriers
• 343Passenger carriers

The census registers 42,274 motor carriers in Kentucky, 101 of them carrying hazardous materials and 343 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 113,855, 24,284 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 5,357 reportable crashes, 135 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 185 · 29 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 5,357 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 5,095 · 23 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 267 · 34 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 6,334 · 32 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 10,271 · 22 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 61,765 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Kentucky

• 1 power unit 24,578
• 2 to 5 power units 13,291
• 6 to 20 power units 2,525
• 21 to 100 power units 573
• 101 to 1,000 power units 68
• 1,000 or more power units 18

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 31,758
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 9,766
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 750

Towns the carriers are based in

Louisville (4,618) · Lexington (1,892) · Bowling Green (978) · Owensboro (618) · London (599) · Nicholasville (557) · Somerset (504) · Richmond (499) · Winchester (415) · Paducah (406) · Glasgow (405) · Frankfort (391) · Columbia (373) · Elizabethtown (358) · Pikeville (347) · Hopkinsville (323) · Shelbyville (319) · Corbin (317) · Georgetown (317) · Monticello (310) · Bardstown (307) · Shepherdsville (306) · Henderson (303) · Lawrenceburg (291) · Florence (286)

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.