FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

North Carolina motor carriers

• 50,694Registered carriers
• 214,818Inspections on file
• 8,955Reportable crashes
• 204Fatal crashes
• 26,572Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 8,280Hazardous materials inspections
• 184Hazmat carriers
• 675Passenger carriers

The census registers 50,694 motor carriers in North Carolina, 184 of them carrying hazardous materials and 675 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 214,818, 26,572 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 8,955 reportable crashes, 204 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 272 · 20 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 8,955 · 9 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 8,864 · 10 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 200 · 39 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,908 · 26 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 8,686 · 26 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 47,700 · 28 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in North Carolina

• 1 power unit 27,997
• 2 to 5 power units 15,162
• 6 to 20 power units 3,813
• 21 to 100 power units 872
• 101 to 1,000 power units 173
• 1,000 or more power units 43

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 27,064
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 22,600
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,030

Towns the carriers are based in

Charlotte (4,955) · Raleigh (2,253) · Greensboro (1,346) · Fayetteville (1,017) · Durham (874) · Winston Salem (697) · Monroe (677) · Concord (664) · High Point (573) · Wilmington (514) · Statesville (457) · Clayton (440) · Gastonia (423) · Greenville (418) · Lexington (412) · Asheville (401) · Sanford (384) · Salisbury (368) · Mooresville (357) · Burlington (342) · Goldsboro (340) · Rocky Mount (335) · Wilson (328) · Indian Trail (323) · Mount Airy (318)

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.