New trucking companies in Alabama, April 2026
Alabama is adding about 112 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +27% versus the prior three months and +31% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 40, 28 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Alabama added 1,016 new carriers against 10,624 currently active, a 9.6% annual entry rate.
The two most recent months are provisional (census lag and MC-docket assignment delay); read trends on the three-month averages.
| Month | New carriers | With ≥1 power unit | Single-truck | Share of US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 (provisional) | 40 | 37 | 28 | 1.1% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 97 | 93 | 50 | 1.3% |
| June 2026 (undercounted) | 34 | 33 | 19 | 1.1% |
| May 2026 (undercounted) | 48 | 41 | 33 | 1.2% |
| April 2026 | 118 | 98 | 82 | 1.6% |
| March 2026 | 109 | 91 | 70 | 1.4% |
| February 2026 | 109 | 100 | 84 | 1.6% |
| January 2026 | 89 | 79 | 63 | 1.3% |
| December 2025 | 82 | 70 | 58 | 1.6% |
| November 2025 | 93 | 85 | 66 | 1.8% |
| October 2025 | 96 | 89 | 73 | 1.5% |
| September 2025 | 101 | 94 | 79 | 1.7% |
| August 2025 | 81 | 73 | 51 | 1.3% |
| July 2025 | 104 | 89 | 62 | 1.7% |
| June 2025 | 84 | 71 | 60 | 1.4% |
| May 2025 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 1.2% |
| April 2025 | 78 | 65 | 48 | 1.3% |
| March 2025 | 96 | 81 | 68 | 1.4% |
| February 2025 | 83 | 78 | 61 | 1.4% |
| January 2025 | 80 | 67 | 48 | 1.4% |
| December 2024 | 56 | 48 | 34 | 1.3% |
| November 2024 | 45 | 39 | 31 | 1.0% |
| October 2024 | 87 | 68 | 57 | 1.7% |
| September 2024 | 50 | 45 | 36 | 1.1% |
Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Alabama carriers.
May 2026 and June 2026 are undercounted. FMCSA moved carrier registration to a new system on 2026-05-14 and stopped writing the MC docket into the census for several weeks. This series counts carriers that carry a docket, so those months show roughly half their true entries; the underlying registration rate did not change. The headline averages on this page skip them, and the monthly table marks them. Treat any average spanning the cutover as a floor rather than a measurement.
Method
Active carriers in the FMCSA Company Census with a physical address in Alabama, an MC docket, and a USDOT number issued in the month shown. Older months understate entries slightly because carriers that have since gone inactive are excluded. Source: FMCSA via data.transportation.gov (public domain), reloaded monthly.
Last updated 2026-09-08 · first published 2026-09-07. Data sources are listed on each page; see About for methodology.