Preview Preview: 7,000 carriers of roughly 4.5 million registered — a deliberate mix of currently active carriers and ones deactivated within the past year. Coverage is expanding. Sourced from the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census. Data as of 2026-09-06.

Trucking carriers based in District of Columbia

How District of Columbia carriers fare at the roadside, measured against every other state, from federal inspection and crash records.

248Roadside inspections rolling three-year window
2,044Crashes on file 1.5% involved a fatality
2,283Power units across 6 carriers on file

The largest carriers we hold in District of Columbia

CarrierPower units DriversInspections Out of service
WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY 18642581 20.0%
WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY 2171000 230.0%
FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 912 1020.0%
SORENSON TRANSPORTATION COMPANY INC 5548 1753.4%
THE JOY COMPANIES INC 4178 3818.4%
SUPER CONCRETE 1519

Compare with another state

The twelve highest out-of-service rates on file.

What these numbers are, and what they are not

These are rates, not totals. CarrierWatch holds a systematic sample of the federal carrier register rather than all of it, so a count of carriers here describes what we hold, not what District of Columbia has. A rate — inspections that ended out of service, divided by inspections — is a property of the carriers measured and does not depend on how many of the state we sampled, which is why it is the figure on this page.

The rate is inspection-weighted, so a few large carriers with many inspections move it more than many small ones. It is a description of the vehicles and drivers actually stopped in this state — and where we hold fewer than 500 inspections we publish no rate at all.

An out-of-service order means an inspector found a condition serious enough to stop the vehicle or driver until it was fixed. A crash on a carrier's record is not a finding of fault. Ratings and inspections come from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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