New trucking companies in Virginia, April 2026
Virginia is adding about 158 new for-hire carriers a month (average of the three complete months to April 2026), +31% versus the prior three months and +21% versus a year earlier. The provisional count for August 2026 is 72, 35 of them single-truck operations. Over the last 12 months Virginia added 1,521 new carriers against 14,265 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) | 72 | 65 | 35 | 1.9% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 145 | 139 | 84 | 1.9% |
| June 2026 (undercounted) | 70 | 64 | 36 | 2.2% |
| May 2026 (undercounted) | 102 | 85 | 65 | 2.6% |
| April 2026 | 162 | 128 | 103 | 2.1% |
| March 2026 | 159 | 127 | 116 | 2.0% |
| February 2026 | 152 | 129 | 113 | 2.3% |
| January 2026 | 153 | 126 | 104 | 2.3% |
| December 2025 | 105 | 85 | 65 | 2.0% |
| November 2025 | 103 | 86 | 72 | 2.0% |
| October 2025 | 142 | 124 | 103 | 2.3% |
| September 2025 | 156 | 135 | 109 | 2.6% |
| August 2025 | 126 | 105 | 85 | 2.0% |
| July 2025 | 139 | 123 | 93 | 2.2% |
| June 2025 | 137 | 113 | 88 | 2.3% |
| May 2025 | 126 | 111 | 88 | 2.1% |
| April 2025 | 122 | 107 | 94 | 2.0% |
| March 2025 | 144 | 124 | 94 | 2.1% |
| February 2025 | 126 | 103 | 80 | 2.1% |
| January 2025 | 131 | 115 | 91 | 2.2% |
| December 2024 | 94 | 85 | 72 | 2.1% |
| November 2024 | 91 | 76 | 60 | 2.1% |
| October 2024 | 100 | 83 | 67 | 2.0% |
| September 2024 | 106 | 92 | 76 | 2.2% |
Browse the carriers themselves, with authority and insurance status, on USDOT Index: Virginia 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 Virginia, 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.