FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Texas motor carriers

• 179,036Registered carriers
• 685,854Inspections on file
• 26,268Reportable crashes
• 923Fatal crashes
• 181,946Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 54,856Hazardous materials inspections
• 1,007Hazmat carriers
• 1,595Passenger carriers

The census registers 179,036 motor carriers in Texas, 1,007 of them carrying hazardous materials and 1,595 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 685,854, 181,946 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 26,268 reportable crashes, 923 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 871 · 2 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 26,268 · 1 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 62,532 · 1 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 12,784 · 1 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 43,636 · 3 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 10,296 · 21 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 1,367,101 · 1 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Texas

• 1 power unit 110,976
• 2 to 5 power units 46,398
• 6 to 20 power units 11,012
• 21 to 100 power units 3,012
• 101 to 1,000 power units 580
• 1,000 or more power units 126

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 122,665
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 52,442
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 3,929

Towns the carriers are based in

Houston (21,300) · Dallas (7,279) · San Antonio (6,656) · Fort Worth (4,722) · Laredo (4,167) · Odessa (3,623) · Austin (3,560) · El Paso (3,399) · Katy (3,058) · Midland (2,917) · Arlington (1,912) · Spring (1,725) · Irving (1,523) · Amarillo (1,437) · Edinburg (1,423) · Grand Prairie (1,423) · Humble (1,344) · Mission (1,305) · Conroe (1,179) · Garland (1,143) · Richmond (1,113) · Cypress (1,083) · Lubbock (1,069) · Mcallen (946) · Brownsville (896)

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.