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New trucking companies in New York, April 2026

New York is adding about 188 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +38% versus the prior three months and +13% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 84, 42 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months New York added 1,676 new carriers against 19,059 currently active, a 8.8% 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)8469422.2%
July 2026 (provisional)1851751052.5%
June 2026 (undercounted)6154332.0%
May 2026 (undercounted)9375592.3%
April 20262081571332.7%
March 20262111571332.7%
February 2026146106812.2%
January 2026166116982.5%
December 202511883692.3%
November 2025125102872.5%
October 2025139111932.2%
September 2025140113842.3%
August 2025149115922.4%
July 2025144116882.3%
June 2025135108852.3%
May 2025153124932.6%
April 2025154120952.5%
March 20252021651273.0%
February 2025145117892.4%
January 2025134110932.3%
December 202411592682.6%
November 202410181602.3%
October 202412297712.4%
September 202410591712.2%

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

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Last updated 2026-09-08 · first published 2026-09-07. Data sources are listed on each page; see About for methodology.