Federal carrier census August 2026 // CDL driver recruiting

We find qualified drivers for your trucks.

Sourced from all 636,924 active US carriers.

We source and screen CDL-A drivers for your lanes, verify the license, the record and the interest, and hand you a short list. You call them and hire.

6,845,769
drivers on file
8,248,432
power units tracked
8,385
new carriers, July 2026

Opens the live Carrier Intelligence dashboard for your market: carrier counts, fleet mix, largest fleets, new registrations. Want the deeper read on your lanes? The free region report is one form away.

636,924 active interstate carriers in the federal census 8,385 new carriers registered in July 2026 91% of carriers run 10 trucks or fewer ~$8,500 avg DIY cost per driver hire 45+ days avg time-to-seat hiring in-house 1-2% of raw applications become hires without screening 2 min median application-to-screening-call time 636,924 active interstate carriers in the federal census 8,385 new carriers registered in July 2026 91% of carriers run 10 trucks or fewer ~$8,500 avg DIY cost per driver hire 45+ days avg time-to-seat hiring in-house 1-2% of raw applications become hires without screening 2 min median application-to-screening-call time
The Math

Your empty seat is doing math against you.

You did not get worse at hiring. The market got harder to see. 636,924 carriers pull from the same driver pool, and 91% of them are small fleets chasing the same lanes. Job boards sell you access to applicants. They do not tell you where drivers actually are, what nearby fleets offer, or which markets are already picked over. So you post, wait 45 days, and pay around $8,500 a hire to find out.

100 raw applicationswhat you start with
1-2 hiresindustry DIY conversion

DIY fleets convert 1-2% of raw applications into seated drivers. Specialized screening pipelines report 3-7%. Industry figures, not ours: we would rather show you the real number for your region.

What an empty seat costs you

-$51,960
per month in freight those seats are not running. Your inputs, plain arithmetic: seats x weekly revenue x 4.33 weeks. Change the numbers to match your operation.
The System

The Driver Market Engine.

Job boards sell access. Recruiters sell promises. We built a different machine: it reads your market from the carrier census first, then recruits into what the data says is actually there. Four stages, and you only ever see the last one.

01

Sourcing

Every campaign starts with a census read of your region: carrier density, fleet mix, and hiring pressure around your lanes. Then a dedicated sourcing campaign runs across our driver-outreach channels, matched to your freight, your lanes, and your home-time reality. It runs around the clock.

CENSUS READLANE MATCH24/7 ACTIVE
02

Screening

Every applicant completes a DOT-style application: CDL class, three-year employment history, endorsements, violations, med card status. Hard disqualifiers exit here, before anyone spends a minute on them.

CDL-A VERIFIED3-YR HISTORYMED CARDMVR FLAGS
03

Voice Interview

A recorded screening call within minutes of applying. Work history, driving record, availability, and English proficiency consistent with FMCSA 391.11(b)(2). The call itself is a filter: a driver who answers the phone and holds a conversation is a driver who shows up.

2 MIN MEDIAN CALLBACKRECORDED391.11(b)(2)
04

Delivery

Interview-ready candidates land in your own pipeline workspace with everything attached: application answers, call summary, recording, and compliance data structured for your DQ file. Your team does the hiring. Nothing gets lost in an inbox.

DQ-FILE READYPSP / MVR DATAYOUR WORKSPACE
Commercial driver license style headshot of a CDL-A driver
SAMPLE CANDIDATE FILE // TDS-4471
CDL-A VERIFIED 9 YRS OTR, 2 CARRIERS MVR: CLEAN, NO MAJORS MED CARD CURRENT VOICE SCREEN RECORDED 08:42 391.11(b)(2) PASS
INTERVIEW-READY.

This is what lands in your pipeline. Not a resume. A screened file with the call recording attached, before your recruiter spends a minute.

What We See

The market, straight from the census.

These are not brochure numbers. This site runs on a snapshot of the federal carrier census, regenerated when the data updates. Here is what it shows across carriers right now.

Active interstate carriers by state, top 10

CA62,592
TX51,182
IL33,149
PA32,379
FL29,108
GA26,663
OH25,432
NJ23,642
NC21,999
NY18,737

SOURCE: FMCSA COMPANY CENSUS, ACTIVE INTERSTATE CARRIERS WITH 1+ POWER UNITS. SYNC AUGUST 2026.

Signals we act on

91%
of active carriers run 10 trucks or fewer. The driver war is small fleet against small fleet, and most of them are recruiting blind.
8,385
new interstate carriers registered in July 2026 alone. Every one of them wants your drivers.
$6,000-12,000
walks out the door with every driver who quits, before you count the empty seat. Industry figure, vendor-published.

The full dashboard is free.

Every state, fleet-size mix, largest fleets, DOT lookups. The data we run campaigns on, published.

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What We Do

One engine. Every way you hire.

However your operation brings drivers on, the machine behind it is the same: a census read of your market, a managed sourcing campaign, screened applicants, and interview-ready CDL-A candidates delivered to your desk.

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Our Standards

We do not take every carrier.

No campaign can place drivers into a job they do not want. We run a limited number of campaign slots, so before we take one of yours, three things get checked against your market. If we do not think we can fill your seats, we say so on the first call.

GATE 01

Pay that holds up in your region

If your pay sits under what fleets your size offer nearby, no sourcing campaign fixes that. We check your numbers against your market first and tell you what we find.

GATE 02

Equipment drivers will accept

Drivers ask about the truck before they ask about the pay. If the equipment costs you every candidate, we would rather tell you that than run a campaign into it.

GATE 03

Home time you actually honor

If the policy on paper is not the policy in the truck, drivers find out by week three and quit. That churn burns your money and our name, so we pass.

Your Region Report

See your market before you spend a dollar on it.

Tell us what you run and we build your region report: who is hiring around your lanes, how many carriers you actually compete with, and where the drivers are. Within one business day.

01

Carrier density and fleet mix for your region, pulled from the same census snapshot this site runs on.

02

Hiring pressure around your lanes: how many fleets are recruiting against you right now.

03

An honest read on your seats: whether we think we can fill them, and what we would check first. No cost, and no pitch until you ask for one.

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