FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Rhode Island motor carriers

• 4,065Registered carriers
• 7,600Inspections on file
• 243Reportable crashes
• 2Fatal crashes
• 1,481Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 245Hazardous materials inspections
• 18Hazmat carriers
• 43Passenger carriers

The census registers 4,065 motor carriers in Rhode Island, 18 of them carrying hazardous materials and 43 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 7,600, 1,481 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 243 reportable crashes, 2 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 32 · 47 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 243 · 49 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 1,152 · 44 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 60 · 47 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 674 · 47 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 2,638 · 40 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 4,845 · 49 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Rhode Island

• 1 power unit 2,067
• 2 to 5 power units 1,400
• 6 to 20 power units 374
• 21 to 100 power units 83
• 101 to 1,000 power units 17
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 1,108
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 2,871
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 86

Towns the carriers are based in

Providence (646) · Cranston (328) · Warwick (282) · Pawtucket (280) · Johnston (258) · Cumberland (122) · Coventry (115) · Smithfield (110) · Woonsocket (104) · Lincoln (98) · East Providence (91) · Tiverton (90) · West Warwick (79) · Westerly (76) · Bristol (71) · Central Falls (70) · North Kingstown (69) · North Providence (65) · Portsmouth (53) · Foster (50) · North Smithfield (48) · Middletown (45) · Warren (45) · Exeter (44) · Harrisville (44)

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.