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New trucking companies in Hawaii, April 2026

Hawaii is adding about 1 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), -60% versus the prior three months and -85% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 0, 0 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Hawaii added 10 new carriers against 316 currently active, a 3.2% annual entry rate.

The two most recent months are provisional (census lag and MC-docket assignment delay); read trends on the three-month averages.

MonthNew carriersWith ≥1 power unitSingle-truckShare of US
August 2026 (provisional)0000.0%
July 2026 (provisional)0000.0%
June 2026 (undercounted)0000.0%
May 2026 (undercounted)0000.0%
April 20260000.0%
March 20262210.0%
February 20260000.0%
January 20262000.0%
December 20251110.0%
November 20252220.0%
October 20251110.0%
September 20252100.0%
August 20254100.1%
July 20254210.1%
June 20254220.1%
May 20251100.0%
April 20252110.0%
March 20256530.1%
February 20255410.1%
January 20255420.1%
December 20242100.0%
November 20242000.0%
October 20248300.2%
September 20242000.0%

Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Hawaii 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 Hawaii, 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.