Car Shipping Companies,From the Federal Register
Every carrier below holds an active FMCSA registration, declares motor vehicles as its cargo and reports the trucks it runs. Browse by state or city, read each company's USDOT record, and use the five checks before you hand anyone your keys. No rankings, no paid placement, no reviews.
Source: FMCSA Motor Carrier Census, snapshot September 24, 2026. Ordered by reported fleet.
- Listed carriers
- 5,173
- of 5,830 registrations
- With interstate authority
- 2,616
- may haul across state lines
- City pages
- 1,897
- each with carriers based there and within 30 miles
- Largest fleet
- 965 trucks
- Hansen & Adkins Auto Transport Inc, Los Alamitos, CA
Browse by state
Listed carriers based in each state, and the cities with their own page.
The 25 largest auto transporters in the US
Largest by power units reported on each carrier's own MCS-150 filing, drivers as the tiebreak. Fleet size tells you capacity and reach; it says nothing about how a car is treated on the deck.
| # | Carrier | Based in | Fleet | USDOT | Since | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hansen & Adkins Auto Transport Inc | Los Alamitos, CA | 965 trucks | 568253 | 1994 | Satisfactory |
| 2 | Car Transport Inc | Burleson, TX | 309 trucks | 248283 | 1984 | Satisfactory |
| 3 | Crown Auto Carriers Inc | Highland, IN | 300 trucks | 3479368 | 2020 | Not rated |
| 4 | Allstate Auto Transport And Shipping Llc | Deal, NJ | 293 trucks | 1873567 | 2009 | Not rated |
| 5 | Redbird Carriers And Fastrack Auto Transport | Saint Louis, MO | 265 trucks | 251582 | 1984 | Satisfactory |
| 6 | Professional Auto Transport Inc | Jurupa Valley, CA | 257 trucks | 1130314 | 2003 | Not rated |
| 7 | Extreme Auto Transport | Duluth, GA | 246 trucks | 1415704 | 2005 | Satisfactory |
| 8 | Centurion Auto Transport | Jacksonville, FL | 239 trucks | 471614 | 1992 | Not rated |
| 9 | Supreme Auto Transport Inc | Longmont, CO | 207 trucks | 912923 | 2000 | Satisfactory |
| 10 | Advanced Auto Transport Inc | Lake Elmo, MN | 205 trucks | 752871 | 1998 | Satisfactory |
| 11 | Uz Auto Trans Inc | Denver, CO | 190 trucks | 1954980 | 2009 | Satisfactory |
| 12 | H And S Car Carriers Inc | Nahunta, GA | 181 trucks | 972702 | 2001 | Satisfactory |
| 13 | Profleet | Jacksonville, FL | 180 trucks | 1297747 | 2004 | Not rated |
| 14 | Deluxe Auto Carriers Inc | Jurupa Valley, CA | 172 trucks | 1326050 | 2005 | Not rated |
| 15 | Atg | Ogden, UT | 136 trucks | 894046 | 2000 | Not rated |
| 16 | Mid-Western Car Carriers Inc | Kansas City, MO | 128 trucks | 244002 | 1984 | Satisfactory |
| 17 | Na Auto Transport | Kansas City, MO | 124 trucks | 3185588 | 2018 | Not rated |
| 18 | Sec Auto Transport Inc | Shelbyville, TN | 113 trucks | 2291805 | 2012 | Not rated |
| 19 | Crown Auto Transport Inc | Yulee, FL | 109 trucks | 712850 | 1997 | Satisfactory |
| 20 | Aw Transport | Homer Glen, IL | 100 trucks | 1958758 | 2009 | Not rated |
| 21 | Vision Auto Transport Inc | Miami, FL | 95 trucks | 2257988 | 2011 | Not rated |
| 22 | Brothers Auto Transport Llc | Wind Gap, PA | 92 trucks | 621208 | 1995 | Satisfactory |
| 23 | Masney Auto Transport Inc | Winter Garden, FL | 89 trucks | 326786 | 1988 | Satisfactory |
| 24 | Adcock Transport | Manheim, PA | 85 trucks | 540755 | 1993 | Satisfactory |
| 25 | Rafael Auto Transport Llc | Oakdale, PA | 77 trucks | 3677616 | 2021 | Not rated |
Cities with the most auto transporters
Where the trucks are based, by city. A city page lists the carriers registered there and every listed carrier within 30 miles, with distance.
Check an auto transporter in five steps
The register tells you who is licensed. These five questions tell you whether the company in front of you is the one on the register.
- 1
Match the USDOT number to the company
Ask which company's trucks will carry the car, then open that USDOT number on the FMCSA record. The legal name, the registered address and the authority status should match what you were told. A broker quoting you has a different record from the carrier that shows up.
- 2
Check the authority is active and the MC number matches
Active operating authority is the licence to haul for hire across state lines. An inactive MC number, or one the company cannot produce, means the load would move without it.
- 3
Ask for the cargo insurance certificate
The certificate names the carrier, the insurer, the per-vehicle limit and the deductible. Your car is covered while it is on the truck only under that policy; nothing inside the car is.
- 4
Read the fleet line against the promise
A carrier reporting three trucks cannot run a dedicated truck to you next Tuesday and also be in three other states. Fleet size is self-reported, so treat it as a claim to test with a question, not as a guarantee.
- 5
Treat the inspection report as the contract
Existing damage is recorded at pickup on the bill of lading. Photograph the car beside the driver, check the report before you sign, and compare the car with it at delivery before signing again.
How this directory is built
The FMCSA Motor Carrier Census is the public record of every company that files to operate commercial trucks in the United States. We keep carriers with an active status that declare motor vehicles as cargo on their MCS-150 and whose legal or trading name says what they do: auto transport, car hauling, vehicle shipping, auto carriers and the like. The motor-vehicle flag on its own is ticked by more than two hundred thousand filers, from dealerships to tow yards, which is why the name test matters.
Of the 5,830 registrations that pass, 656 report no trucks and no drivers. Those are dormant filings or entities that arrange rather than haul, so they are counted but not listed. Each carrier is placed on the map by the centroid of its ZIP code from the Census Bureau's gazetteer, which is how the city pages know who works within 30 miles.
Fleet and driver counts are self-reported on the filing and are sanity-checked against each other: a fleet many times larger than the driver count is a typo, and those carriers are ordered by drivers instead. Safety ratings are shown where FMCSA has assigned one; most small carriers have never been reviewed, so "not rated" is the norm, not a warning.
The snapshot is dated September 24, 2026. Authorities are granted and revoked every week, so the FMCSA record linked from every row is the live source; this directory is the map to it.
Car shipping companies: questions people ask
How many car shipping companies are there in the United States?
Our September 24, 2026 copy of the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census holds 5,830 active carriers that declare motor vehicles as cargo and carry an auto-transport name; 5,173 of them report at least one truck or driver and are listed here. Brokers, who own no trucks, are registered separately and are not in this count.
Which state has the most auto transporters?
Florida, with 1,449 listed carriers, followed by California (654) and Texas (547). The pattern follows the traffic: states with big ports, big dealer networks and seasonal population flows have the most trucks based in them.
Is this a ranking of the best car shipping companies?
No. It is the federal register filtered to auto transporters and ordered by reported fleet size. Nobody pays to appear, nothing is re-ranked, and we have not used any of these companies. A large fleet is capacity, not a recommendation; read the FMCSA record behind the USDOT number before you book.
Why is the company that quoted me not on this list?
Most car-shipping quotes come from brokers, who hold broker authority rather than carrier authority and file no fleet, so they are not in the carrier census. The truck that arrives belongs to a carrier that should be on the register. Ask the broker for that carrier's USDOT number once a truck is assigned and look it up.
How do I check whether a car shipper is licensed and insured?
Open its USDOT number on the FMCSA record and check that operating authority is active and the legal name matches. Then ask the carrier, not the broker, for its cargo insurance certificate showing the per-vehicle limit and deductible. The five steps on this page walk through it.