FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

West Virginia motor carriers

• 10,879Registered carriers
• 38,721Inspections on file
• 1,842Reportable crashes
• 47Fatal crashes
• 5,539Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 3,084Hazardous materials inspections
• 45Hazmat carriers
• 55Passenger carriers

The census registers 10,879 motor carriers in West Virginia, 45 of them carrying hazardous materials and 55 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 38,721, 5,539 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 1,842 reportable crashes, 47 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 72 · 43 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 1,842 · 34 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 2,717 · 37 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 147 · 42 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 2,966 · 42 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 8,331 · 27 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 17,433 · 42 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in West Virginia

• 1 power unit 5,835
• 2 to 5 power units 3,728
• 6 to 20 power units 854
• 21 to 100 power units 180
• 101 to 1,000 power units 19
• 1,000 or more power units 3

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 7,000
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 3,771
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 108

Towns the carriers are based in

Charleston (359) · Morgantown (353) · Martinsburg (306) · Huntington (219) · Princeton (216) · Buckhannon (209) · Beckley (156) · Fairmont (154) · Parkersburg (152) · Clarksburg (133) · Hedgesville (130) · Hurricane (126) · Elkins (121) · Bridgeport (111) · Berkeley Springs (97) · Bluefield (96) · Summersville (94) · Wheeling (94) · Weston (92) · Petersburg (89) · Romney (85) · Spencer (81) · Moorefield (78) · Elkview (73) · Ripley (73)

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.