New trucking companies in Colorado, April 2026
Colorado is adding about 106 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +35% versus the prior three months and +10% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 59, 35 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Colorado added 982 new carriers against 11,274 currently active, a 8.7% 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) | 59 | 55 | 35 | 1.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 111 | 105 | 59 | 1.5% |
| June 2026 (undercounted) | 39 | 36 | 16 | 1.3% |
| May 2026 (undercounted) | 64 | 55 | 44 | 1.6% |
| April 2026 | 98 | 84 | 69 | 1.3% |
| March 2026 | 120 | 94 | 86 | 1.5% |
| February 2026 | 100 | 87 | 77 | 1.5% |
| January 2026 | 100 | 90 | 74 | 1.5% |
| December 2025 | 70 | 59 | 50 | 1.3% |
| November 2025 | 65 | 56 | 45 | 1.3% |
| October 2025 | 71 | 59 | 46 | 1.1% |
| September 2025 | 85 | 74 | 62 | 1.4% |
| August 2025 | 88 | 76 | 61 | 1.4% |
| July 2025 | 81 | 70 | 50 | 1.3% |
| June 2025 | 91 | 76 | 53 | 1.6% |
| May 2025 | 93 | 79 | 63 | 1.6% |
| April 2025 | 102 | 88 | 68 | 1.7% |
| March 2025 | 99 | 88 | 73 | 1.4% |
| February 2025 | 89 | 67 | 54 | 1.5% |
| January 2025 | 83 | 74 | 54 | 1.4% |
| December 2024 | 56 | 46 | 35 | 1.3% |
| November 2024 | 69 | 58 | 39 | 1.6% |
| October 2024 | 66 | 56 | 41 | 1.3% |
| September 2024 | 83 | 72 | 49 | 1.7% |
Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Colorado 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 Colorado, 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.