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 North Dakota

How North Dakota carriers fare at the roadside, measured against every other state, from federal inspection and crash records.

19.9%Put out of service of 980 inspections
980Roadside inspections rolling three-year window
787Crashes on file 4.3% involved a fatality
1,535Power units across 40 carriers on file

North Dakota ranks 4 of 45 rated states by out-of-service rate, worst first — 60% higher than the national figure.

The largest carriers we hold in North Dakota

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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 North Dakota 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.

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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