FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

South Carolina motor carriers

• 23,267Registered carriers
• 109,512Inspections on file
• 4,716Reportable crashes
• 124Fatal crashes
• 19,454Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 10,304Hazardous materials inspections
• 128Hazmat carriers
• 334Passenger carriers

The census registers 23,267 motor carriers in South Carolina, 128 of them carrying hazardous materials and 334 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 109,512, 19,454 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 4,716 reportable crashes, 124 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 458 · 10 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 4,716 · 19 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 6,081 · 17 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 1,280 · 6 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,868 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 17,217 · 13 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,507 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in South Carolina

• 1 power unit 13,760
• 2 to 5 power units 6,263
• 6 to 20 power units 1,449
• 21 to 100 power units 428
• 101 to 1,000 power units 59
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 12,509
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 10,238
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 520

Towns the carriers are based in

Columbia (1,450) · Greenville (888) · Summerville (665) · Spartanburg (525) · Myrtle Beach (488) · Florence (447) · Rock Hill (435) · Charleston (418) · Lexington (393) · Greer (384) · Anderson (381) · Sumter (381) · North Charleston (339) · Orangeburg (337) · Inman (282) · Walterboro (282) · Conway (280) · Simpsonville (269) · Moncks Corner (267) · Easley (265) · West Columbia (262) · Georgetown (257) · Aiken (241) · Fort Mill (235) · Lancaster (228)

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.