FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Montana motor carriers

• 8,670Registered carriers
• 59,708Inspections on file
• 1,203Reportable crashes
• 47Fatal crashes
• 9,338Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 2,813Hazardous materials inspections
• 71Hazmat carriers
• 156Passenger carriers

The census registers 8,670 motor carriers in Montana, 71 of them carrying hazardous materials and 156 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 59,708, 9,338 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 1,203 reportable crashes, 47 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 172 · 31 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 1,203 · 41 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 2,551 · 39 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 349 · 28 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,237 · 28 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 1,120 · 48 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 29,890 · 33 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Montana

• 1 power unit 4,274
• 2 to 5 power units 3,297
• 6 to 20 power units 753
• 21 to 100 power units 154
• 101 to 1,000 power units 22
• 1,000 or more power units 7

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 4,867
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 3,271
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 532

Towns the carriers are based in

Billings (686) · Kalispell (512) · Missoula (354) · Bozeman (348) · Helena (292) · Great Falls (281) · Belgrade (247) · Butte (155) · Sidney (150) · Miles City (115) · Livingston (108) · Columbia Falls (105) · Havre (103) · Dillon (100) · Stevensville (100) · Eureka (92) · Lewistown (89) · Libby (88) · Hamilton (82) · Polson (77) · Bigfork (76) · Laurel (76) · Manhattan (75) · Townsend (75) · Glendive (74)

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.