Haul● U.S. Carrier Activity Monitor · Updated weekly
New trucking companies, tracked every week.
A live national view of who's entering and leaving the public FMCSA register — new carrier registrations, carriers marked inactive, and reactivations, refreshed every Monday and broken out by state. “Inactive” is a registration-status change, not a confirmed business closure.
Since monitoring began Jun 12, 2026 · 30-day window.
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New registrations by week
New carrier registrations per ISO week (Mon–Sun). The most recent complete week is highlighted; the current week and any partially-observed week are shown lighter and dashed because they're still accruing — they never anchor a week-over-week claim. Latest complete week (Sep 7, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026): 3,391 registrations.
Where new carriers are registering
New registrations by the carrier's registered physical-address state, for the stated window. Formation concentrates in the largest freight and border states.
Show data table
| State | New registrations |
|---|---|
| Texas | 2,138 |
| California | 1,827 |
| Florida | 1,510 |
| Georgia | 817 |
| New York | 757 |
| Pennsylvania | 719 |
| Ohio | 696 |
| Illinois | 662 |
| New Jersey | 641 |
| North Carolina | 557 |
| Minnesota | 548 |
| Michigan | 395 |
New registrations by operation type
How newly-registered carriers describe their operation on the FMCSA register. Interstate vs. intrastate is self-reported at registration and can change later.
Net registration flow this window
For the 30-day window, new registrations and reactivations together outweighed carriers marked inactive. A status change in the public record is a registration event; it does not confirm that a company has stopped operating. For the carrier-by-carrier feed, see carriers going inactive.
Where status changes to inactive were recorded
Show data table
| State | Marked inactive |
|---|---|
| California | 2,370 |
| Texas | 2,200 |
| Florida | 1,298 |
| Georgia | 942 |
| Pennsylvania | 807 |
| New Jersey | 789 |
| North Carolina | 782 |
| Illinois | 771 |
| Ohio | 706 |
| New York | 446 |
| Indiana | 424 |
| Virginia | 400 |
Carriers whose public-register status changed to inactive during the window, by state. These counts are far smaller than new registrations and spread thin — no single state shows a concentrated cluster. For a state ranking that lines up entries, exits, crashes and authority actions side by side, see trucking activity by state.
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How HaulReport measures this
HaulReport captures a snapshot of the public FMCSA Company Census register each day and compares consecutive snapshots, counting the differences — new registrations, status changes, and reactivations — over a defined period. The figures here cover the 30-day window Aug 17, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026, with the weekly chart drawn from a deeper run of capture. Because the record is a public registration database, it reflects filing and registration activity, not operational outcomes: a status change is a record event, and registration data can lag real-world activity. For the carrier-by-carrier feeds, see new trucking companies and carriers going inactive; for method and sources, see methodology and data sources.
Frequently asked questions
- How many new trucking companies registered in the U.S. this week?
- The latest complete week on record shows 3,391 new carrier registrations. Across the 30-day window (Aug 17, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026), HaulReport's daily FMCSA difference capture recorded 17,939 carriers newly appearing in the public FMCSA Company Census register. A census appearance does not by itself confirm active operating authority. Figures are bound to the stated week or window and update as the capture advances.
- What does it mean when a carrier is listed as inactive?
- It means the carrier's status in the public FMCSA register changed to inactive during the window. That is a registration/authority-status change — it is not a determination that the company has ceased operating, filed for bankruptcy, or gone out of business. Carriers also move back to active: 2,537 were reactivated in the same window.
- How current is this, and when do week-over-week numbers appear?
- The monitor refreshes weekly from HaulReport's daily capture of the public FMCSA register, which began on Jun 12, 2026. Week-over-week change is shown only once two complete weeks have been observed, so we never publish a trend we can't verify.
- Where does this data come from?
- Public FMCSA Company Census records (dataset az4n-8mr2). HaulReport compares daily snapshots of the register and counts new registrations, status changes, and reactivations. We aggregate the public record; we do not set or verify the underlying registrations.