New trucking companies in Maryland, April 2026
Maryland is adding about 157 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +21% versus the prior three months and +14% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 71, 39 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Maryland added 1,468 new carriers against 13,704 currently active, a 10.7% 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) | 71 | 63 | 39 | 1.9% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 124 | 117 | 66 | 1.7% |
| June 2026 (undercounted) | 61 | 58 | 34 | 2.0% |
| May 2026 (undercounted) | 86 | 77 | 54 | 2.2% |
| April 2026 | 148 | 118 | 97 | 1.9% |
| March 2026 | 184 | 159 | 134 | 2.4% |
| February 2026 | 140 | 114 | 106 | 2.1% |
| January 2026 | 164 | 137 | 116 | 2.4% |
| December 2025 | 128 | 110 | 88 | 2.5% |
| November 2025 | 99 | 85 | 71 | 1.9% |
| October 2025 | 130 | 113 | 96 | 2.1% |
| September 2025 | 133 | 117 | 94 | 2.2% |
| August 2025 | 105 | 86 | 70 | 1.7% |
| July 2025 | 116 | 97 | 78 | 1.8% |
| June 2025 | 108 | 83 | 66 | 1.9% |
| May 2025 | 147 | 119 | 88 | 2.5% |
| April 2025 | 141 | 112 | 93 | 2.3% |
| March 2025 | 166 | 133 | 100 | 2.4% |
| February 2025 | 106 | 91 | 71 | 1.8% |
| January 2025 | 129 | 109 | 79 | 2.2% |
| December 2024 | 89 | 77 | 55 | 2.0% |
| November 2024 | 101 | 86 | 67 | 2.3% |
| October 2024 | 99 | 89 | 74 | 2.0% |
| September 2024 | 94 | 77 | 61 | 2.0% |
Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Maryland 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 Maryland, 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.