FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Ohio motor carriers

• 48,287Registered carriers
• 127,532Inspections on file
• 9,296Reportable crashes
• 232Fatal crashes
• 21,411Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 12,475Hazardous materials inspections
• 278Hazmat carriers
• 971Passenger carriers

The census registers 48,287 motor carriers in Ohio, 278 of them carrying hazardous materials and 971 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 127,532, 21,411 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 9,296 reportable crashes, 232 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 415 · 12 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 9,296 · 8 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 5,435 · 20 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,923 · 3 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,793 · 18 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 11,156 · 20 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 77,601 · 14 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Ohio

• 1 power unit 23,959
• 2 to 5 power units 14,447
• 6 to 20 power units 5,096
• 21 to 100 power units 1,650
• 101 to 1,000 power units 329
• 1,000 or more power units 51

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 20,791
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 26,116
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,380

Towns the carriers are based in

Columbus (4,858) · Cincinnati (2,625) · Cleveland (2,398) · Dayton (1,512) · Toledo (1,095) · Akron (843) · Youngstown (500) · Canton (489) · West Chester (470) · Mason (450) · Hamilton (364) · Loveland (334) · Westerville (325) · Hilliard (314) · Reynoldsburg (299) · Dublin (298) · Tipp City (296) · Mansfield (282) · Maineville (267) · Grove City (266) · Springfield (260) · Middletown (246) · Fairfield (245) · Medina (236) · Pickerington (226)

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.