Statistics · FMCSA data as of November 7, 2026

How many trucking companies are in the US?

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2,217,311 motor carriers with a physical address in the 50 states and DC hold an active USDOT registration, according to FMCSA’s Company Census File as of November 7, 2026. Counts by state, fleet size, operation and cargo, refreshed with each FMCSA snapshot.

The short answer

FMCSA’s Company Census lists 2,217,311 active USDOT-registered carriers with a US physical address. That is broader than “trucking companies” in everyday speech: it includes private fleets that haul their own goods (36.4% of the total), bus and passenger carriers, and carriers registered for intrastate operation only (68.9%). Counting only carriers with an active operating authority, the for-hire companies that haul other people’s freight across state lines, gives 661,425 (29.8%).

Most of them are small. 52.9% report a single power unit, and fleets of more than 100 power units make up 0.4%; the largest trucking companies page ranks them. Each figure counts one active USDOT number; an active registration does not prove a company is operating today. The glossary explains the terms.

By state

Trucking companies by state.

Active carriers by physical-address state, with new USDOT registrations in the 30 days before the November 7, 2026 snapshot.

Active trucking companies and new registrations by state
#	State	Active carriers	Share of US	New in 30 days	With email
1	California	329,286	14.9%	1,007	56.6%
2	Texas	194,535	8.8%	1,249	86.6%
3	Florida	157,509	7.1%	873	77.3%
4	New York	129,952	5.9%	468	75.0%
5	Georgia	108,034	4.9%	479	77.8%
6	Pennsylvania	82,728	3.7%	500	85.4%
7	Michigan	78,196	3.5%	216	62.4%
8	Minnesota	76,450	3.4%	275	65.6%
9	Wisconsin	65,725	3.0%	161	68.6%
10	Illinois	56,086	2.5%	416	88.5%
11	North Carolina	54,284	2.4%	351	88.5%
12	Ohio	52,269	2.4%	366	88.2%
13	Washington	51,142	2.3%	175	82.0%
14	Colorado	50,653	2.3%	158	74.8%
15	New Jersey	49,875	2.2%	444	90.6%
16	Indiana	47,213	2.1%	211	68.4%
17	Maryland	44,357	2.0%	197	82.0%
18	Kentucky	43,426	2.0%	147	62.1%
19	Massachusetts	39,963	1.8%	204	94.3%
20	Alabama	35,633	1.6%	104	75.5%
21	Arizona	32,029	1.4%	168	82.9%
22	Nebraska	29,149	1.3%	67	59.7%
23	Oregon	28,901	1.3%	70	71.8%
24	Oklahoma	27,569	1.2%	123	72.8%
25	Iowa	26,832	1.2%	81	70.9%
26	Missouri	26,749	1.2%	160	84.0%
27	Tennessee	25,943	1.2%	183	84.5%
28	Virginia	25,375	1.1%	184	90.2%
29	South Carolina	25,120	1.1%	137	88.3%
30	Utah	23,989	1.1%	81	72.5%
31	Connecticut	21,777	1.0%	135	87.3%
32	Kansas	19,155	0.9%	76	80.7%
33	Maine	14,242	0.6%	36	67.8%
34	Idaho	13,911	0.6%	56	80.8%
35	Mississippi	12,668	0.6%	108	88.0%
36	Louisiana	12,492	0.6%	57	86.4%
37	New Mexico	11,427	0.5%	51	73.3%
38	West Virginia	11,186	0.5%	45	72.4%
39	Arkansas	11,068	0.5%	48	82.1%
40	Nevada	10,607	0.5%	65	89.6%
41	Montana	9,044	0.4%	36	83.5%
42	Wyoming	6,852	0.3%	35	76.7%
43	Alaska	6,595	0.3%	16	84.5%
44	North Dakota	6,591	0.3%	25	85.4%
45	South Dakota	6,441	0.3%	19	83.1%
46	New Hampshire	6,166	0.3%	31	87.3%
47	Hawaii	5,538	0.2%	37	91.4%
48	Delaware	5,063	0.2%	26	91.7%
49	Rhode Island	4,293	0.2%	27	88.8%
50	Vermont	2,366	0.1%	9	86.3%
51	District of Columbia	857	0.0%	12	89.7%

Composition

Fleet size and cargo.

Power units as reported on each carrier’s MCS-150, and the cargo categories carriers declare. A carrier can list several cargo categories.

Using these figures

The counts update with each FMCSA census snapshot we publish. To cite them: “Trucking Lists analysis of the FMCSA Company Census File (data.transportation.gov, dataset az4n-8mr2), snapshot of November 7, 2026, https://truckinglists.com/trucking-company-statistics.” How the data is built explains the selection: active registrations, one row per USDOT number, physical-address states only.

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How many trucking companies are in the US?

The short answer

Trucking companies by state.

Fleet size and cargo.

Fleet size

Most common cargo

Operation

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