FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Massachusetts motor carriers

• 38,110Registered carriers
• 50,842Inspections on file
• 3,025Reportable crashes
• 40Fatal crashes
• 10,309Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 1,609Hazardous materials inspections
• 118Hazmat carriers
• 561Passenger carriers

The census registers 38,110 motor carriers in Massachusetts, 118 of them carrying hazardous materials and 561 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 50,842, 10,309 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 3,025 reportable crashes, 40 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 325 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 3,025 · 29 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 8,868 · 9 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 153 · 41 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 4,967 · 37 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 16,399 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 27,639 · 36 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Massachusetts

• 1 power unit 19,218
• 2 to 5 power units 13,185
• 6 to 20 power units 3,592
• 21 to 100 power units 708
• 101 to 1,000 power units 101
• 1,000 or more power units 75

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 23,119
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 14,019
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 972

Towns the carriers are based in

Worcester (900) · Lynn (885) · Brockton (630) · Springfield (538) · Framingham (496) · Lawrence (492) · Waltham (421) · Boston (414) · Woburn (406) · Lowell (401) · New Bedford (397) · Marlborough (391) · Fall River (390) · Methuen (363) · Peabody (363) · Plymouth (353) · Leominster (351) · Revere (342) · Taunton (333) · Stoughton (306) · Haverhill (291) · Everett (287) · Quincy (286) · Westfield (276) · Chicopee (270)

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.