FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Nebraska motor carriers

• 28,458Registered carriers
• 49,086Inspections on file
• 1,693Reportable crashes
• 86Fatal crashes
• 6,443Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 1,709Hazardous materials inspections
• 87Hazmat carriers
• 118Passenger carriers

The census registers 28,458 motor carriers in Nebraska, 87 of them carrying hazardous materials and 118 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 49,086, 6,443 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 1,693 reportable crashes, 86 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 131 · 36 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 1,693 · 37 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 1,806 · 42 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 300 · 32 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 6,356 · 31 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 9,023 · 25 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 15,787 · 43 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Nebraska

• 1 power unit 14,603
• 2 to 5 power units 10,425
• 6 to 20 power units 1,863
• 21 to 100 power units 355
• 101 to 1,000 power units 65
• 1,000 or more power units 14

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 19,282
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 8,227
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 949

Towns the carriers are based in

Omaha (3,793) · Lincoln (2,450) · Grand Island (975) · Kearney (519) · Norfolk (459) · Columbus (453) · North Platte (443) · Fremont (416) · Hastings (379) · Bellevue (365) · Gretna (262) · Lexington (230) · Papillion (228) · Scottsbluff (223) · Beatrice (211) · Elkhorn (210) · Blair (201) · Alliance (192) · York (180) · Plattsmouth (168) · Aurora (156) · West Point (151) · South Sioux City (148) · Cozad (147) · Nebraska City (142)

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.