FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

New Jersey motor carriers

• 45,920Registered carriers
• 101,678Inspections on file
• 8,477Reportable crashes
• 132Fatal crashes
• 17,343Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 8,888Hazardous materials inspections
• 258Hazmat carriers
• 936Passenger carriers

The census registers 45,920 motor carriers in New Jersey, 258 of them carrying hazardous materials and 936 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 101,678, 17,343 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 8,477 reportable crashes, 132 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 106 · 40 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 8,477 · 11 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 10,421 · 8 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 716 · 13 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 1,514 · 44 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 7,813 · 29 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 83,788 · 11 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in New Jersey

• 1 power unit 25,917
• 2 to 5 power units 13,012
• 6 to 20 power units 3,691
• 21 to 100 power units 984
• 101 to 1,000 power units 167
• 1,000 or more power units 54

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 20,846
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 24,176
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 898

Towns the carriers are based in

Newark (1,889) · Elizabeth (1,311) · Paterson (1,129) · Jersey City (907) · Trenton (659) · Perth Amboy (634) · Clifton (632) · Edison (588) · Linden (583) · Toms River (517) · North Bergen (487) · Vineland (428) · Carteret (393) · Hackensack (390) · Kearny (372) · Passaic (352) · Union City (349) · Union (348) · Jackson (333) · Lakewood (333) · East Orange (317) · Belleville (314) · Freehold (314) · Irvington (308) · Wayne (302)

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.