FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Washington motor carriers

• 48,823Registered carriers
• 129,820Inspections on file
• 3,463Reportable crashes
• 105Fatal crashes
• 28,181Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,674Hazardous materials inspections
• 110Hazmat carriers
• 405Passenger carriers

The census registers 48,823 motor carriers in Washington, 110 of them carrying hazardous materials and 405 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 129,820, 28,181 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 3,463 reportable crashes, 105 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 321 · 17 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 3,463 · 28 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 6,517 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 647 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 15,169 · 12 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 21,909 · 7 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 108,378 · 9 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Washington

• 1 power unit 27,758
• 2 to 5 power units 15,181
• 6 to 20 power units 3,691
• 21 to 100 power units 885
• 101 to 1,000 power units 104
• 1,000 or more power units 50

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 34,171
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 13,552
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,100

Towns the carriers are based in

Seattle (2,172) · Kent (1,809) · Vancouver (1,768) · Tacoma (1,560) · Spokane (1,365) · Auburn (1,175) · Puyallup (1,036) · Yakima (960) · Pasco (916) · Everett (728) · Renton (666) · Olympia (651) · Snohomish (618) · Kennewick (595) · Federal Way (588) · Bellingham (580) · Moses Lake (506) · Arlington (475) · Lynnwood (470) · Othello (453) · Ellensburg (398) · Spokane Valley (390) · Marysville (369) · Bellevue (344) · Mount Vernon (344)

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.