US Trucking Market Overview

Structure of the active US motor carrier market from our FMCSA dataset: how many carriers sit in each fleet-size segment, where they are registered, and how they operate.

Active carriers

2,264,415

Drivers reported

14,700,330

Hazmat carriers

158,159

7.0% of market

With MC authority

733,834

32.4% of market

Carriers by fleet size

Power units come from each carrier's latest MCS-150 / Census filing.

Segment	Carriers	Share	Drivers	Median fleet
11 power unit — owner-operators	1,196,897	52.9%	3,362,378	1
2-52–5 — micro fleets	623,320	27.5%	3,508,782	2
6-106–10 — small fleets	104,231	4.6%	1,001,197	7
11-2011–20	51,367	2.3%	808,183	14
21-5021–50 — mid-size	30,190	1.3%	968,727	30
51-10051–100	10,309	0.5%	675,592	68
101-500101–500 — large	6,301	0.3%	1,144,719	164
500+500+ — enterprise	2,450	0.1%	2,542,658	6,688

Additionally 239,350 active carriers report 0 power units (mostly brokers, forwarders or stale MCS-150 filings) and are excluded from the table above.

Top states by carriers

1,676,163 drivers

331,407

14.6%

1,483,072 drivers

196,940

8.7%

1,360,016 drivers

158,627

7.0%

857,715 drivers

130,213

5.8%

683,373 drivers

109,124

4.8%

470,771 drivers

83,318

3.7%

434,594 drivers

78,494

3.5%

432,217 drivers

76,491

3.4%

325,510 drivers

65,941

2.9%

564,259 drivers

56,936

2.5%

306,792 drivers

55,335

2.4%

439,559 drivers

53,099

2.3%

392,363 drivers

51,420

2.3%

233,276 drivers

50,939

2.2%

253,818 drivers

50,462

2.2%

270,008 drivers

47,776

2.1%

235,399 drivers

44,739

2.0%

199,993 drivers

43,748

1.9%

630,230 drivers

40,075

1.8%

223,698 drivers

35,967

1.6%

Operation type

Interstate

721,814

Intrastate

1,490,527

Intrastate hazmat

46,958

Updated 9/28/2026 · source: FMCSA Census / MCS-150. Search carriers →