Ohio's 100 Biggest Trucking Fleets (2026)

Nightly aggregation of the FMCSA census puts Ohio at 52,089 active motor carriers running roughly 439,355 power units combined, and about 44% of those carriers are single-truck owner-operators. Average active fleet size works out to 9.9 trucks.

832 new OH carrier registrations appeared in the last 90 days — and 1,070 registrations carry an FMCSA prior-revocation link, the raw material of chameleon re-registrations.

FIRST STUDENT INC out of CINCINNATI tops the OH ranking with 32760 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/354406.

The list orders every carrier headquartered in OH 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 14,639 qualifying carriers; every row links to that carrier's full public record.

Yes — this page only surfaces the largest fleets. Any of the 14,639 registered OH 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.