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 Rhode Island

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

454Roadside inspections rolling three-year window
392Crashes on file 2.0% involved a fatality
1,133Power units across 50 carriers on file

The largest carriers we hold in Rhode Island

CarrierPower units DriversInspections Out of service
NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY 676584 80.0%
TEXTRON INC 8647 100.0%
R J CARBONE CO & ROBERT J CARBONE 3624 4117.1%
RHODY TRANSPORTATION & WAREHOUSING INC 2730 1010.0%
RAMBONE DISPOSAL SERVICES INC 2318
FRANK DUPUIS COMPANY 2018 40.0%
MARWELL TRUCKING INC 1817 1625.0%
MCLAUGHLIN & MORAN INC 1732
QUALITY BEEF CO INC 1716 2347.8%
GREYLAWN FOODS INC 169 6616.7%
TOURTELLOT & CO INC 1617 342.9%
PHILS BOTTLED GAS SERVICE CO INC 1515 425.0%
CENTRAL PAPER COMPANY INC 1321 7614.5%
SUNSHINE OIL CO INC 1210 250.0%
L & D JOHNSON ENTERPRISES INC 113
CONTRACTORS SUPPLY INC 1011 1050.0%
M SOLOMON CASKET CO 1010 585.2%
THE HENRY GONSALVES CO 109 714.3%
NORTH SMITHFIELD FENCE INC 96
TEKNOR APEX COMPANY 88 1100.0%

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 Rhode Island 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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