FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Missouri motor carriers

• 24,575Registered carriers
• 115,806Inspections on file
• 7,898Reportable crashes
• 182Fatal crashes
• 29,362Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 12,121Hazardous materials inspections
• 219Hazmat carriers
• 406Passenger carriers

The census registers 24,575 motor carriers in Missouri, 219 of them carrying hazardous materials and 406 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 115,806, 29,362 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 7,898 reportable crashes, 182 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 343 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 7,898 · 12 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 6,469 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,628 · 4 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 24,161 · 8 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 9,341 · 24 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 113,425 · 8 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Missouri

• 1 power unit 12,356
• 2 to 5 power units 7,727
• 6 to 20 power units 2,564
• 21 to 100 power units 699
• 101 to 1,000 power units 135
• 1,000 or more power units 27

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 10,066
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 13,952
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 557

Towns the carriers are based in

Kansas City (2,186) · Saint Louis (1,747) · St Louis (734) · Springfield (637) · Independence (373) · Florissant (371) · Columbia (265) · Joplin (258) · Lees Summit (234) · Sedalia (207) · Poplar Bluff (188) · Saint Joseph (183) · Saint Charles (180) · Fenton (173) · Grandview (159) · Blue Springs (151) · Lebanon (146) · Cape Girardeau (142) · Perryville (135) · Hazelwood (131) · Jefferson City (130) · Neosho (128) · Raytown (127) · Wentzville (122) · Ozark (119)

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.