Statistics No. 10 MCMIS 2025

US Trucking Statistics by State

Every federal dataset we track for professional drivers — enforcement, crashes, carriers and roads — summarised here and broken out in full on the pages below.

2,215,282Active Carriers

10,036,667Registered Drivers

2,880,318Roadside Inspections (2025)

18.7%Put Out of Service (2025)

164,292CMV Crashes (2025)

4,551Crash Deaths (2025)

36,297Fatal Crashes (2024)

4,777Truck-Involved Fatal (2024)

7,142Alcohol-Involved Fatal (2024)

3,290,491VMT (2024)

01 Enforcement

Out-of-Service Rates

In 2025, 2,880,318 roadside inspections were run in the United States and 539,403 of them — 18.7% — ended with the driver, the truck, or both ordered out of service. Where you get stopped matters: the strictest state writes an order roughly 4.3 times as often as the most lenient.

Highest out-of-service rates

33.5% — Wyoming (14,442 inspections)
30.5% — Oregon (19,500 inspections)
28.2% — Arizona (52,330 inspections)
26.8% — Texas (314,958 inspections)
26.6% — Connecticut (20,802 inspections)

Lowest out-of-service rates

7.7% — Illinois (62,949 inspections)
10.9% — Kansas (34,433 inspections)
11.5% — Mississippi (43,549 inspections)
11.7% — New Mexico (92,694 inspections)
11.8% — North Carolina (110,009 inspections)

All 50 states and what triggers an order →

02 Causes

What Puts a Truck Out of Service

Every violation written out of service at a roadside inspection in FMCSA's current file, grouped by the regulation cited. These count violations, not inspections — one stop can write several. Equipment defects dominate, and within them it is overwhelmingly tires, brakes and lamps: the things a walk-around would have caught.

Equipment defects — brakes, tires, lights, cargo securement 58.4%

1,411,579 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 393

Inspection, repair and maintenance 12.8%

308,450 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 396

Hours of service and ELD 8.4%

203,690 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 395

Driver qualification and medical certificate 7.7%

185,881 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 391

CDL — license class, endorsements, validity 6.2%

149,030 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 383

Driving of commercial motor vehicles 5.2%

125,427 out-of-service violations · 49 CFR 392

Full violation ranking →

03 Crashes

Commercial Vehicle Crashes

FMCSA's crash file counts every police-reported crash involving a commercial vehicle — fatal, injury, and tow-away — and is rebuilt daily. NHTSA FARS counts only fatal crashes and runs about two years behind, because it waits for every case to be confirmed.

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Deaths	Injuries	Tow-away	Coverage
2026 partial	95,787	2,257	2,488	49,263	89,161	through 2026-09-15
2025	164,292	4,089	4,551	85,893	152,322	full year
2024	173,128	4,821	5,380	88,889	160,616	full year
2023	174,021	5,065	5,624	88,690	162,324	full year
2022	184,461	5,509	6,185	89,716	173,288	full year
2021	183,812	5,356	6,023	91,462	172,978	full year

Crashes by state →

04 Industry

Carriers, Drivers and Trucks

2,215,282 active motor carriers are registered with FMCSA, employing 10,036,667 drivers and running 9,459,698 power units. 39% hold interstate authority. The average carrier is tiny: 4.3 trucks.

329,183 carriers — California (782,814 power units)
194,323 carriers — Texas (762,063 power units)
157,089 carriers — Florida (588,786 power units)
129,633 carriers — New York (510,076 power units)
108,030 carriers — Georgia (466,582 power units)

Carrier census by state →

05 Roads

Miles Driven and Miles Built

American vehicles covered 3,290,491 million miles in 2024 across 4,206,937 miles of public road, of which 48,821 miles are Interstate — 1.2% of the network carrying a wildly disproportionate share of the freight.

VMT and mileage by state →

06 Reference

All States at a Glance

One row per state across every dataset. The detail pages above break each of these columns out properly — this is the quick lookup.

50 states

State	Carriers	Drivers	Power Units	Fatal Crashes (2024)	Truck Fatal (2024)	Alcohol Fatal (2024)	VMT (M) (2024)	Hwy Miles (2024)	Interstate Mi (2024)
California	329,183	955,311	782,814	3,583	355	637	325,959	177,607	2,456
Texas	194,323	802,104	762,063	3,774	647	822	308,461	326,028	3,478
Florida	157,089	683,517	588,786	2,931	322	357	249,474	124,581	1,495
North Carolina	54,382	243,872	237,621	1,509	184	184	131,008	108,827	1,433
Georgia	108,030	521,124	466,582	1,312	181	181	122,216	127,308	1,247
New York	129,633	536,213	510,076	1,036	113	71	120,869	116,320	1,786
Ohio	52,249	392,422	368,994	1,077	153	285	116,036	122,970	1,582
Illinois	56,097	409,724	404,465	1,085	130	228	104,290	146,034	2,186
Michigan	78,128	322,073	314,678	1,011	100	196	99,661	122,056	1,239
Pennsylvania	82,425	452,319	450,623	1,060	144	195	95,194	121,430	1,864
Virginia	25,488	146,591	138,307	867	110	197	88,511	75,649	1,119
Indiana	47,229	244,224	239,134	785	135	160	88,231	97,401	1,320
Missouri	26,777	194,763	187,366	882	125	195	81,807	132,993	1,385
New Jersey	49,709	214,240	199,664	638	62	118	79,460	38,778	432
Tennessee	25,965	308,407	306,304	1,093	157	223	78,904	95,945	1,202
Alabama	35,666	144,369	138,074	895	128	210	72,904	99,025	1,004
Arizona	32,025	169,864	164,791	1,118	118	178	70,451	76,079	1,168
Wisconsin	65,649	274,443	263,117	529	69	104	69,226	115,926	878
South Carolina	25,196	101,312	101,194	948	124	266	62,042	78,432	851
Massachusetts	39,783	239,141	220,965	349	29	79	62,013	36,931	566
Washington	51,050	331,649	296,166	674	67	165	60,555	78,909	763
Minnesota	76,171	298,261	265,092	431	70	107	59,181	142,488	913
Maryland	44,281	160,822	145,986	552	60	143	57,049	32,669	494
Louisiana	12,514	60,847	57,196	705	86	188	55,109	66,515	945
Colorado	50,640	212,025	211,199	642	90	185	55,068	89,955	952
Kentucky	43,380	140,157	133,039	663	79	142	49,168	79,678	998
Oklahoma	27,549	111,837	110,378	594	99	102	46,456	115,560	983
Mississippi	12,707	57,153	56,606	678	92	42	41,554	78,398	831
Arkansas	11,088	126,159	127,642	547	85	141	39,372	99,200	768
Oregon	28,917	100,434	106,235	491	67	133	37,399	79,052	729
Utah	23,993	114,828	109,593	251	41	56	36,160	49,505	943
Iowa	26,864	131,219	134,518	324	52	70	33,817	115,063	789
Kansas	19,154	100,797	120,087	314	58	86	31,670	138,993	877
Connecticut	21,658	86,115	82,551	285	29	87	30,947	21,472	347
New Mexico	11,445	39,012	42,470	378	75	22	28,645	72,243	999
Nevada	10,621	64,428	61,482	378	35	80	28,433	47,564	635
Nebraska	29,160	132,579	135,034	223	53	62	21,900	95,295	483
Idaho	13,907	57,433	60,040	219	43	56	20,046	59,240	612
West Virginia	11,151	38,995	38,097	238	36	49	17,214	39,138	556
Maine	14,237	43,612	47,995	167	28	45	15,161	22,862	367
Montana	9,048	32,055	33,728	193	30	74	13,865	74,705	1,192
New Hampshire	6,140	29,682	29,354	120	12	35	13,854	16,269	225
Hawaii	5,485	25,207	23,819	97	2	28	10,647	4,628	55
South Dakota	6,459	31,045	30,442	134	30	46	10,450	81,825	679
North Dakota	6,604	39,328	41,826	84	23	18	10,030	88,565	571
Delaware	5,069	21,712	21,339	121	11	25	9,937	6,695	41
Wyoming	6,864	23,558	24,892	102	20	20	9,720	31,689	913
Rhode Island	4,292	22,745	20,890	48	4	13	7,656	6,559	70
Vermont	2,364	11,340	11,301	53	4	21	7,208	14,229	320
Alaska	6,592	27,081	29,133	63	9	12	5,503	17,654	1,080
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Rules That Go With These Numbers

Data Sources

FMCSA Company Census. Motor carrier registrations, driver counts, and power units from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Rebuilt daily from the MCS-150 filings carriers are required to keep current. Fleet size is whatever the carrier typed into that form, and a few hundred filings carry a phone number or a zip code in the box, so we leave a filing out of the driver and power unit totals when it declares more than 150,000 of either, which is more than FedEx or UPS runs, or more than 1,000 of one against fewer than one for every 10 of the other. Carrier, hazmat and interstate counts are counts of filings, so nothing is dropped from those. FMCSA publishes its own national totals from the same snapshot, 2,122,441 carriers, 9,508,489 drivers and 8,544,650 vehicles as of 2026-08-28, at A&I Registration Statistics.

FMCSA Crash File (MCMIS) — Police-reported crashes involving commercial vehicles, as filed by the states. Rebuilt daily; the most recent year is incomplete because reports keep arriving for months afterwards.

FMCSA Vehicle Inspection File — Roadside inspections, violations, and out-of-service orders. Rebuilt daily. The violation ranking comes from FMCSA's companion violation file, a rolling snapshot of roughly the last three years.

NHTSA FARS — Fatal crash statistics from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, published through USDOT/BTS. Currently FARS 2024 (initial release — numbers may still be revised). Updated annually.

FHWA Highway Statistics — Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), highway mileage, and interstate mileage from the Federal Highway Administration. Published annually, about eighteen months in arrears.

All figures are US federal government data in the public domain. We total them by state and present them as filed. The single exception is the one named above: carrier census filings that declare an impossible fleet size are left out of the totals, and nothing else is adjusted.

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