Trucking leads / Iowa
New trucking companies in Iowa
Every motor carrier based in Iowa that registered with the FMCSA, with phone, email, MC docket, fleet size and cargo, refreshed every six hours.
Counts refreshed October 29, 2026 from the live file. The subscription covers every state; filter to Iowa at download.
New Iowa carriers in numbers
310 carriers from Iowa joined the FMCSA register in the last 90 days (to October 28, 2026); 80 of those registered in the last 30 days. Iowa holds 0.8% of the country's 90-day total, 32nd place among the states.
At the 90-day pace Iowa adds about 24 new carriers a week (the 90-day count divided by 13 weeks), and the last 30 days ran behind that pace.
Contact fill for Iowa: 100% of its 1,453 active carriers registered since October 1, 2025 carry a phone, 100% an email and 16% a second cell number, against 100%, 100% and 17% for the country as a whole.
73% of Iowa's new carriers are authorized for hire (73% nationally), 67% report one power unit or none, and 5.6% marked hazardous materials. In the Iowa file, 40% have an MC docket number.
The largest groups of new Iowa carriers in the last 90 days are in Des Moines (24) and Cedar Rapids (16). Together the 2 cities with 15 or more registrations account for 40 of the state's 310.
Among Iowa carriers that checked a cargo type in the last 90 days, the most common were general freight (137), grain, feed, hay (69) and building materials and construction (38).
Iowa against the national file
| Measure | Iowa | National |
|---|---|---|
| Registered, last 30 days | 80 | 11,218 |
| Registered, last 90 days | 310 | 39,891 |
| With a phone | 100% | 100% |
| With an email | 100% | 100% |
| With a cell phone | 16% | 17% |
| Authorized for hire | 73% | 73% |
| One power unit or none | 67% | 69% |
| MC docket on file | 40% | 40% |
| Hazmat | 5.6% | 6.9% |
Counts of 30 and 90 days are registrations; shares cover active carriers registered since October 1, 2025.
Cities with the most new Iowa carriers
| City | Last 90 days | Share of state |
|---|---|---|
| Des Moines | 24 | 7.7% |
| Cedar Rapids | 16 | 5.2% |
Cities with 15 or more registrations in the last 90 days, by physical address.
Cargo checked by new Iowa carriers
| Cargo | Carriers | Share of checks |
|---|---|---|
| General freight | 137 | 44% |
| Grain, feed, hay | 69 | 22% |
| Building materials and construction | 38 | 12% |
| Agricultural / farm supplies | 36 | 11% |
| Other | 34 | 11% |
Registrations in the last 90 days. A carrier can check several cargo types.
How buyers work the Iowa file
Insurance agents
1,058 of the 1,453 active Iowa carriers registered since October 1, 2025 are authorized for hire. When those Iowa carriers haul general freight interstate in trucks of 10,001 pounds or more, 49 CFR 387.9 sets their minimum liability at $750,000; the 82 that marked hazmat face the higher tiers.
Factoring companies
576 Iowa carriers in the file have an MC docket, the operating authority a for-hire carrier files for to haul for others across state lines. MC docket plus for-hire is where the Iowa factoring list starts.
Dispatch services
969 Iowa carriers report one power unit or none, the single-truck operators a dispatch service works for. Sorting the Iowa file by registration date puts the newest of them first.
ELD and fleet software
The interstate carriers among Iowa's 1,453 registrations since October 1, 2025 are inside the 18-month new entrant monitoring period set by 49 CFR 385.307.
Truck and trailer dealers
General freight is the cargo Iowa's new carriers checked most often in the last 90 days (137 carriers), which tells a dealer which trailers to show first.
The newest Iowa registrations
| Carrier | City | Registered | Trucks | Phone | |
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Calling and emailing new carriers
Most new carriers are owner-operators, and the phone on their registration is often a personal mobile. The TCPA and the National Do Not Call Registry apply to sales calls and texts: scrub every list first, dial by hand, and do not use autodialers, prerecorded or AI voices, or texts without consent. Email falls under CAN-SPAM (a working opt-out and your postal address in every message). Mail is the lowest-risk first touch. This is not legal advice; the Terms set the rules for using the file, and the calling rules guide explains the TCPA and Do Not Call rules in more detail.