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[All snapshots](/data/geography/archive) ## Analysis · as of August 1, 2026 ### Highlights - California leads all states with 378,789 FMCSA-registered carriers, representing 13.76% of the national total. - The top five states (CA, TX, FL, NY, GA) account for 40.2% of all registered carriers despite representing a fraction of US geography. - Georgia carriers average 57.9 power units per carrier, nearly double California's 34.3, indicating a structurally different fleet composition. - Massachusetts carriers report an average fleet size of 96.9 power units, the highest of any major US state, against only 48,592 registered carriers. - FMCSA registration spans 115 distinct state and jurisdiction codes, including Canadian provinces and non-US territories. The sharpest divergence in this dataset is not between large and small states by carrier count, but between carrier count and fleet scale. Georgia (GA), with 136,276 registered carriers (4.95% of the national total), reports total power units of 7,220,815 and an average fleet size of 57.9 units per carrier. California, which has nearly three times as many carriers at 378,789, averages only 34.3 power units per carrier. That gap suggests California's registry is weighted toward smaller, owner-operator style operations, while Georgia's carrier population skews toward mid-to-large fleets, a pattern consistent with Georgia's role as a Southeast logistics hub anchored by the Atlanta metro and major intermodal infrastructure. Massachusetts presents the most pronounced version of this fleet-size divergence among states with meaningful carrier counts. Its 48,592 carriers report an average of 96.9 power units, more than double Florida's 47.7 and more than 2.8 times California's 34.3. The underlying total power unit figure for Massachusetts is 4,422,614, which is larger than Pennsylvania's 3,702,473 despite Pennsylvania having more than twice the carrier count at 101,777. This likely reflects a concentration of large regional and national fleets domiciled in Massachusetts for regulatory or operational reasons, though the data does not distinguish between operating bases and registration addresses. At the national level, 2,752,490 carriers are registered across 115 jurisdiction codes, with total reported drivers of 16,952,535. The top five states alone account for 40.2% of carrier registrations. The dataset also includes non-US entries such as Canadian provinces (Ontario at 11,000 carriers, British Columbia at 3,879, Alberta at 3,784) and a small number of records associated with codes that appear to correspond to Mexican states and other international jurisdictions, which is consistent with FMCSA's practice of registering foreign carriers authorized to operate in US commerce. Several small-count entries show extreme average fleet sizes that are almost certainly artifacts of data quality issues rather than operational reality. The Yukon Territory (YT) entry, with 35 carriers and 95,110 total power units yielding an average of 2,972.2, and the Virgin Islands (VI) entry with 114 carriers and 50,622 power units at 460.2 average, warrant scrutiny before citation. These figures may reflect data entry anomalies or fleet equipment registered under jurisdiction codes for administrative reasons. The concentration of carrier registrations in coastal and Sunbelt states has been a persistent feature of FMCSA data over the past decade, and the current distribution, with California alone at nearly 14% of all carriers, is consistent with long-running trends in population growth, port activity, and owner-operator formation in high-density metro markets. ### Key Statistics 2,752,490 Total FMCSA-registered motor carriers across all jurisdictions As of 2026-08-01 16,952,535 Total reported drivers across all registered carriers As of 2026-08-01 13.76% California's share of all FMCSA-registered carriers nationally As of 2026-08-01 40.2% Share of total carriers held by the top five states (CA, TX, FL, NY, GA) As of 2026-08-01 96.9 Average power units per carrier in Massachusetts, highest among states with more than 10,000 carriers As of 2026-08-01 57.9 Average power units per carrier in Georgia As of 2026-08-01 7,220,815 Total power units registered to Georgia-based carriers As of 2026-08-01 4,422,614 Total power units registered to Massachusetts-based carriers, exceeding Pennsylvania's 3,702,473 despite roughly half the carrier count As of 2026-08-01 115 Distinct state and jurisdiction codes present in FMCSA carrier registration data, including US territories, Canadian provinces, and other international codes As of 2026-08-01 11,000 Carriers registered under Ontario (ON), the largest non-US jurisdiction by carrier count As of 2026-08-01 23.2 Average power units per carrier in Illinois, among the lowest of major Midwest states As of 2026-08-01 252,688 Total FMCSA-registered carriers in Texas, second nationally at 9.18% of the total As of 2026-08-01 Cite this data AlphaLoops. 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