Trucking leads / Rhode Island
New trucking companies in Rhode Island
Every motor carrier based in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island at download.
New Rhode Island carriers in numbers
116 motor carriers based in Rhode Island registered with the FMCSA in the 90 days to October 28, 2026, and 32 of them in the last 30 days. That is 0.3% of all new registrations in the same 90 days, the 45th-largest count of any state.
At the 90-day pace Rhode Island adds about 9 new carriers a week (the 90-day count divided by 13 weeks), and the last 30 days ran behind that pace.
Of the 466 active Rhode Island carriers registered since October 1, 2025, 100% list a phone number and 100% an email address on their registration, close to the national rates of 100% and 100%, and 18% of the Rhode Island carriers also give a separate cell phone.
Most Rhode Island carriers in the file are small: 65% report one power unit or none, against 69% across the country. 60% registered as authorized for hire, 42% filed for an MC docket and 7.9% carry hazmat.
Providence is the only Rhode Island city with 15 or more new carrier registrations in the last 90 days: 25 of the state's 116.
Among Rhode Island carriers that checked a cargo type in the last 90 days, the most common were general freight (52), building materials and construction (32) and household goods (7).
Rhode Island against the national file
| Measure | Rhode Island | National |
|---|---|---|
| Registered, last 30 days | 32 | 11,218 |
| Registered, last 90 days | 116 | 39,891 |
| With a phone | 100% | 100% |
| With an email | 100% | 100% |
| With a cell phone | 18% | 17% |
| Authorized for hire | 60% | 73% |
| One power unit or none | 65% | 69% |
| MC docket on file | 42% | 40% |
| Hazmat | 7.9% | 6.9% |
Counts of 30 and 90 days are registrations; shares cover active carriers registered since October 1, 2025.
Cities with the most new Rhode Island carriers
| City | Last 90 days | Share of state |
|---|---|---|
| Providence | 25 | 21.6% |
Cities with 15 or more registrations in the last 90 days, by physical address.
Cargo checked by new Rhode Island carriers
| Cargo | Carriers | Share of checks |
|---|---|---|
| General freight | 52 | 44% |
| Building materials and construction | 32 | 27% |
| Other | 20 | 17% |
| Household goods | 7 | 6% |
| Machinery, large objects | 7 | 6% |
Registrations in the last 90 days. A carrier can check several cargo types.
How buyers work the Rhode Island file
Insurance agents
278 of the 466 active Rhode Island carriers registered since October 1, 2025 are authorized for hire. When those Rhode Island 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 37 that marked hazmat face the higher tiers.
Factoring companies
194 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island factoring list starts.
Dispatch services
303 Rhode Island carriers report one power unit or none, the single-truck operators a dispatch service works for. Sorting the Rhode Island file by registration date puts the newest of them first.
ELD and fleet software
The interstate carriers among Rhode Island's 466 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 Rhode Island's new carriers checked most often in the last 90 days (52 carriers), which tells a dealer which trailers to show first.
The newest Rhode Island 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.