FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Virginia motor carriers

• 23,458Registered carriers
• 49,421Inspections on file
• 6,735Reportable crashes
• 161Fatal crashes
• 8,952Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,650Hazardous materials inspections
• 115Hazmat carriers
• 410Passenger carriers

The census registers 23,458 motor carriers in Virginia, 115 of them carrying hazardous materials and 410 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 49,421, 8,952 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 6,735 reportable crashes, 161 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 163 · 33 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 6,735 · 13 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 3,799 · 30 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 340 · 30 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,295 · 27 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 2,926 · 39 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 45,999 · 29 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Virginia

• 1 power unit 12,855
• 2 to 5 power units 6,599
• 6 to 20 power units 1,900
• 21 to 100 power units 581
• 101 to 1,000 power units 96
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 8,896
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 14,088
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 474

Towns the carriers are based in

Richmond (1,130) · Alexandria (893) · Woodbridge (878) · Manassas (781) · Chesapeake (663) · Fredericksburg (569) · Virginia Beach (556) · Sterling (541) · Norfolk (517) · Newport News (368) · Henrico (366) · Stafford (350) · Roanoke (346) · Springfield (346) · Suffolk (345) · Winchester (331) · Portsmouth (320) · Hampton (313) · Fairfax (275) · Falls Church (260) · Lorton (239) · Arlington (229) · Harrisonburg (220) · Chantilly (213) · Herndon (186)

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.