North Carolina's 100 Biggest Trucking Fleets (2026)

Nightly aggregation of the FMCSA census puts North Carolina at 54,250 active motor carriers running roughly 341,746 power units combined, and about 50% of those carriers are single-truck owner-operators. Average active fleet size works out to 7.3 trucks.

747 new NC carrier registrations appeared in the last 90 days — and 1,208 registrations carry an FMCSA prior-revocation link, the raw material of chameleon re-registrations.

OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC out of THOMASVILLE tops the NC ranking with 10974 power units on its latest MCS-150. Its complete vetting workup — risk flags, score breakdown, insurance filings, and record timeline — is at https://mclookup.com/carrier/90849.

The list orders every carrier headquartered in NC by self-reported power units, filtered for plausibility (a driver-to-truck ratio between 0.3 and 5.0 screens out data-entry junk like thousand-truck fleets with zero drivers). Showing the top 100 of 10,449 qualifying carriers; every row links to that carrier's full public record.

Yes — this page only surfaces the largest fleets. Any of the 10,449 registered NC carriers can be pulled up by typing its USDOT or MC number into the search bar, which returns the same risk-flag screening, score breakdown, and month-over-month record history.