FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Pennsylvania motor carriers

• 78,821Registered carriers
• 165,295Inspections on file
• 13,026Reportable crashes
• 235Fatal crashes
• 29,898Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 6,011Hazardous materials inspections
• 357Hazmat carriers
• 1,071Passenger carriers

The census registers 78,821 motor carriers in Pennsylvania, 357 of them carrying hazardous materials and 1,071 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 165,295, 29,898 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 13,026 reportable crashes, 235 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol in PA
• Crash Indicator in PA
• Driver Fitness in PA
• Hazardous Materials Compliance in PA
• Hours-of-Service Compliance in PA
• Unsafe Driving in PA
• Vehicle Maintenance in PA

Carriers by fleet size in Pennsylvania

• 1 power unit 39,383
• 2 to 5 power units 26,914
• 6 to 20 power units 7,146
• 21 to 100 power units 1,906
• 101 to 1,000 power units 306
• 1,000 or more power units 86

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 43,944
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 33,012
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 1,865

Towns the carriers are based in

Philadelphia (5,586) · Pittsburgh (2,332) · Allentown (1,310) · Reading (1,040) · Harrisburg (1,002) · York (960) · Lancaster (870) · Erie (659) · Easton (611) · Bethlehem (557) · Mechanicsburg (518) · Bensalem (494) · Hazleton (478) · West Chester (449) · Chambersburg (441) · Scranton (437) · Carlisle (433) · Lebanon (407) · Levittown (406) · Norristown (377) · Pottstown (376) · Wilkes Barre (344) · New Castle (340) · Ephrata (327) · Warminster (320)

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.