Trucking companies in Oklahoma: two metros, the oil patch and the state licenses carriers need

This report is for Oklahoma shippers, oil and gas operators and manufacturers choosing a carrier, drivers comparing employers, and B2B sellers whose customers are trucking companies: truck and trailer dealers, insurers, fuel suppliers, shops and compliance services. The Oklahoma City and Tulsa reports cover each metro in detail.

Oklahoma trucking at a glance

US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023, NAICS 484 (Truck Transportation), state of Oklahoma:

Oklahoma's average trucking pay ranks tenth highest of the 50 states and DC in the same file.

Three markets in one state

The two metro figures are the Census Bureau's metro-area totals; the rest of the state is the statewide total less both (it includes two establishments not assigned to a county).

The Census Bureau published Rogers County's employee count but flagged it as high-noise (the noise it adds for confidentiality moved the value by 5% or more), so we leave it out. Oklahoma County alone has a third of the state's trucking jobs (33.1%) at 24.4 per establishment. Outside the metros, Carter, Grady and Woodward counties each have 40 to 51 establishments.

What Oklahoma carriers haul

Specialized freight, which NAICS illustrates with bulk-liquid, dump, livestock and farm-products trucking locally and refrigerated, bulk-liquid and hazardous-material trucking long-distance, adds up to 662 establishments and 7,240 jobs. Specialized long-distance pays the most, $70,737 on average.

The two largest classes aren't published. The 100-or-more band (35) is the published total less the smaller bands, leaving three establishments with 500 or more employees. In broader bands: 1,588 establishments have 1 to 19 employees and 183 have 20 to 99.

CBP counts establishments with paid employees, not companies. Owner-operators without payroll aren't in it, and an oil company's or a ranch's own trucks are counted in oil and gas or agriculture.

Oklahoma's state licenses

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) Transportation Division issues two intrastate licenses for trucking:

The OCC's example of an unrestricted property license carries a $750,000 liability limit. One practical change for list builders: the OCC says it no longer provides motor carrier lists, so the federal register is the place to build an Oklahoma carrier list.

The federal register

FMCSA's Company Census File (29 October 2026) has 27,551 active USDOT registrations with an Oklahoma physical address. Without bus operators, 15,385 are for-hire and 10,188 run private fleets only, a large private share.

Only 44.3% of for-hire records are current under the federal 24-month update rule (49 CFR 390.19). New for-hire registrations still active rose from 1,157 in 2025 to 1,249 in 2026 through 29 October.

The largest fleets outside Oklahoma City

Statewide, the largest current for-hire record is Gemini Motor Transport in Oklahoma City (2,322 power units), covered in the Oklahoma City report. Outside that metro, the largest active for-hire records updated since October 2024, with drivers at least half the power units, are:

Three of the largest names describe oilfield work: a welding and machine shop in Healdton, a nitrogen pumping service in Seiling and a crude transport company in Pauls Valley. The largest private fleets in the state file include Cudd Pressure Control in Newcastle (837 power units), ONE Gas in Tulsa (594) and Kirby-Smith Machinery in Oklahoma City (444). No SEC-listed company in the trucking SIC codes is headquartered in Oklahoma.

How to vet an Oklahoma carrier

1. Read the SAFER record in FMCSA's Company Snapshot for operation type, fleet, inspections and crashes, and note the MCS-150 date.
2. For loads inside Oklahoma, ask for the OCC license and check the stamp on the truck. For loads leaving the state, an intrastate-only USDOT number won't do: 9,603 Oklahoma for-hire carriers are registered that way.
3. Match insurance to the cargo. Federal minimums are $750,000 for general freight, $1,000,000 for oil and most hazardous materials, and $5,000,000 for hazardous substances in bulk tanks (49 CFR 387.9).
4. For oilfield work, ask what equipment the carrier runs (winch trucks, vacuum trucks, tankers) and which operators it hauled for last.
5. Call the OCC with license questions. It asks verifiers to contact its Transportation Division by email or at 405-521-2251, since it no longer publishes carrier lists.

Prospecting Oklahoma trucking companies

For a step-by-step on turning this into a list, see how to build a prospect list.

Illustrative example. The dealer, prices and close rate are invented; the carrier count is from FMCSA's October 2026 file.

Red Dirt Truck Sales (reddirttrucks.example) sells used day cabs and winch trucks with in-house financing. It targets for-hire carriers outside the two metros with 2 to 10 power units and a current MCS-150: 1,350 carriers with 4,811 power units. If 2% buy one truck a year at an average $68,000, that's 27 trucks and $1.84 million of sales. The approach is through the owner, who usually drives too, so calls go out early morning or after dark. Bebop can find carriers like these from a description and research each one before the call.

Hi [first name], it's [your name] at Red Dirt Truck Sales in [town]. I'll keep it short.

I saw [company] runs [number] trucks out of [city]. We've got two [model] day cabs on the lot with fresh inspections, and we finance in-house for owner-operators.

If one of your trucks is due for replacement this year, can I send you photos and numbers today?

Oklahoma sources

Next step: see the metro with Oklahoma's second-largest carrier cluster in the report on trucking companies in Tulsa.