New trucking companies in Georgia, April 2026
Georgia is adding about 366 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +24% versus the prior three months and +10% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 170, 113 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Georgia added 3,442 new carriers against 35,869 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) | 170 | 161 | 113 | 4.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 357 | 332 | 204 | 4.8% |
| June 2026 (undercounted) | 145 | 141 | 97 | 4.7% |
| May 2026 (undercounted) | 190 | 153 | 120 | 4.8% |
| April 2026 | 350 | 274 | 238 | 4.6% |
| March 2026 | 414 | 339 | 289 | 5.3% |
| February 2026 | 335 | 277 | 246 | 5.0% |
| January 2026 | 351 | 303 | 268 | 5.2% |
| December 2025 | 268 | 220 | 188 | 5.2% |
| November 2025 | 264 | 225 | 188 | 5.2% |
| October 2025 | 290 | 255 | 224 | 4.7% |
| September 2025 | 308 | 254 | 214 | 5.1% |
| August 2025 | 325 | 267 | 228 | 5.2% |
| July 2025 | 343 | 292 | 238 | 5.4% |
| June 2025 | 289 | 242 | 200 | 5.0% |
| May 2025 | 322 | 278 | 225 | 5.4% |
| April 2025 | 321 | 280 | 237 | 5.3% |
| March 2025 | 376 | 310 | 249 | 5.5% |
| February 2025 | 298 | 260 | 204 | 5.0% |
| January 2025 | 290 | 251 | 187 | 5.0% |
| December 2024 | 202 | 166 | 128 | 4.6% |
| November 2024 | 208 | 170 | 131 | 4.7% |
| October 2024 | 234 | 190 | 147 | 4.7% |
| September 2024 | 213 | 176 | 138 | 4.5% |
Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Georgia 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 Georgia, 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.