FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Louisiana motor carriers

• 11,164Registered carriers
• 89,790Inspections on file
• 5,227Reportable crashes
• 128Fatal crashes
• 13,172Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 4,887Hazardous materials inspections
• 149Hazmat carriers
• 102Passenger carriers

The census registers 11,164 motor carriers in Louisiana, 149 of them carrying hazardous materials and 102 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 89,790, 13,172 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 5,227 reportable crashes, 128 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 150 · 34 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 5,227 · 17 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 3,395 · 34 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 630 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,588 · 19 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 16,829 · 14 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 40,681 · 31 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Louisiana

• 1 power unit 6,271
• 2 to 5 power units 2,871
• 6 to 20 power units 951
• 21 to 100 power units 315
• 101 to 1,000 power units 54
• 1,000 or more power units 15

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 5,176
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 5,701
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 287

Towns the carriers are based in

Baton Rouge (887) · Shreveport (623) · New Orleans (616) · Lafayette (328) · Lake Charles (241) · Slidell (237) · Bossier City (172) · Kenner (167) · Monroe (167) · Metairie (162) · Houma (156) · Harvey (137) · Gonzales (133) · Hammond (133) · New Iberia (131) · West Monroe (121) · Denham Springs (110) · Marrero (108) · Alexandria (106) · Covington (106) · Opelousas (106) · Broussard (98) · Deridder (91) · Natchitoches (82) · Zachary (82)

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.