FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Minnesota motor carriers

• 73,836Registered carriers
• 56,474Inspections on file
• 4,254Reportable crashes
• 114Fatal crashes
• 12,711Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 2,935Hazardous materials inspections
• 130Hazmat carriers
• 1,240Passenger carriers

The census registers 73,836 motor carriers in Minnesota, 130 of them carrying hazardous materials and 1,240 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 56,474, 12,711 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 4,254 reportable crashes, 114 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 170 · 32 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 4,254 · 24 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 4,534 · 28 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 592 · 18 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 5,969 · 33 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 12,036 · 18 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 51,555 · 24 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Minnesota

• 1 power unit 39,818
• 2 to 5 power units 22,999
• 6 to 20 power units 4,934
• 21 to 100 power units 1,109
• 101 to 1,000 power units 175
• 1,000 or more power units 52

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 56,321
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 16,254
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,261

Towns the carriers are based in

Minneapolis (4,967) · Saint Paul (2,090) · Rochester (1,117) · St Paul (902) · Burnsville (854) · Bloomington (786) · Duluth (763) · Saint Cloud (722) · Lakeville (689) · Shakopee (636) · Elk River (584) · Brooklyn Park (579) · Blaine (575) · Mankato (549) · Prior Lake (512) · Brainerd (495) · Bemidji (491) · Maple Grove (488) · Eagan (483) · Faribault (462) · Eden Prairie (454) · Buffalo (437) · St Cloud (428) · Princeton (419) · Alexandria (410)

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.