FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

North Dakota motor carriers

• 6,241Registered carriers
• 25,176Inspections on file
• 797Reportable crashes
• 22Fatal crashes
• 3,312Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 1,127Hazardous materials inspections
• 64Hazmat carriers
• 41Passenger carriers

The census registers 6,241 motor carriers in North Dakota, 64 of them carrying hazardous materials and 41 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 25,176, 3,312 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 797 reportable crashes, 22 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 52 · 46 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 797 · 44 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 540 · 50 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 311 · 31 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 2,052 · 43 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 1,900 · 44 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 20,398 · 41 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in North Dakota

• 1 power unit 2,728
• 2 to 5 power units 2,239
• 6 to 20 power units 860
• 21 to 100 power units 249
• 101 to 1,000 power units 45
• 1,000 or more power units 0

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 2,358
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 3,716
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 167

Towns the carriers are based in

Fargo (704) · Williston (630) · Dickinson (328) · Bismarck (274) · Grand Forks (263) · West Fargo (235) · Minot (232) · Watford City (174) · Mandan (128) · Stanley (96) · Jamestown (84) · Wahpeton (81) · New Town (75) · Grafton (61) · Killdeer (49) · Langdon (49) · Belfield (46) · Horace (46) · Oakes (42) · Arnegard (40) · Valley City (39) · Devils Lake (38) · Alexander (36) · Hillsboro (32) · Bowman (31)

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.