FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Michigan motor carriers

• 75,331Registered carriers
• 86,346Inspections on file
• 10,182Reportable crashes
• 188Fatal crashes
• 18,427Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,712Hazardous materials inspections
• 181Hazmat carriers
• 894Passenger carriers

The census registers 75,331 motor carriers in Michigan, 181 of them carrying hazardous materials and 894 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 86,346, 18,427 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 10,182 reportable crashes, 188 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 173 · 30 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 10,182 · 6 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 8,181 · 12 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 773 · 12 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 5,256 · 36 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 26,249 · 5 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 69,829 · 19 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Michigan

• 1 power unit 39,066
• 2 to 5 power units 26,256
• 6 to 20 power units 5,695
• 21 to 100 power units 1,310
• 101 to 1,000 power units 209
• 1,000 or more power units 46

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 60,104
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 13,703
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,524

Towns the carriers are based in

Detroit (3,800) · Grand Rapids (1,592) · Warren (1,164) · Dearborn (1,078) · Lansing (913) · Livonia (821) · Sterling Heights (767) · Saginaw (692) · Flint (670) · Kalamazoo (657) · Howell (612) · Traverse City (608) · Troy (604) · Southfield (585) · Holland (577) · Jackson (558) · Waterford (549) · Macomb (531) · Canton (517) · Taylor (485) · Romulus (472) · Westland (471) · Battle Creek (466) · Pontiac (457) · Ann Arbor (443)

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.