What’s Left of the 2026 NASCAR Truck Silly Season?

We’ve reached the halfway point of the offseason, and the puzzle pieces of the 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series lineup are beginning to fall in place. Just over 50 days remain until the series returns to the high banks of Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 13, and while there are a handful teams and drivers that largely have their contracts set in stone (McAnally-Hilgemann Racing for example), there are far more that yet to finalize their plans.

The remaining rides will gradually be filled over the next two months, and the puzzle will be 100% complete by the time Speedweeks begins.

Here are the teams that currently have a help-wanted sign on the window that they are looking to remove come February.

Kaulig Racing

The biggest organizational change over the offseason came from Kaulig Racing, as the team shuttered its long-time NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series program in order to run five full-time trucks with returning manufacturer RAM in 2026.

Three of Kaulig’s five trucks have been filled by Daniel Dye (No. 10), Brenden Queen (No. 12) and Justin Haley (No. 16), which leaves the Nos. 14 and 25 up for grabs.

The No. 25 will feature a revolving rotation of drivers as a part of Ram’s Free Agent Program. The program will showcase drivers from a variety of motorsport disciplines each weekend, so a wide net will be cast in terms of potential names that will make an appearance behind the wheel. The mystery will be ongoing throughout the season, as the driver of the No. 25 won’t be revealed until the Monday before an upcoming race.

The No. 14, meanwhile, is rumored to be based on the results of a competition-style show.

Spire Motorsports

With drastic mid-season and off-season changes in the Spire Motorsports camp, its 2026 lineup will look quite different compared to years past.

After expanding to four full-time trucks last year, only to shutter the No. 07 midway through the 2025 season, Spire will truncate to two trucks for 2026, using the Nos. 7 and 77.

The No. 71 previously driven by Rajah Caruth is currently no more, as he will move up to the O’Reilly Series for 2026. Spire’s No. 7 truck featured a mix of both Chevrolet Cup Series drivers and development drivers in 2025, while Corey LaJoie finished out the year in the No. 77 after Andres Perez departed to Niece Motorsports midseason.

It seems reasonable to believe that Spire will have at least one truck (the No. 7) split between a variety of part-time drivers in the new year, just as it’s done in years past. The question then turns to the No. 77: will LaJoie return to the team for either a part- or full-time schedule, or will he move on? And if he doesn’t return, will the No. 77 have a full-time driver or another part-time rotation?

Ty Majeski is taking the reins of ThorSport Racing’s flagship No. 88 truck in 2026 following Matt Crafton’s full-time retirement, but not much else is known about the new year for Ford’s larger Truck team.

As a 10-year veteran of ThorSport and a two-time series champion, it seems likely that Ben Rhodes will be back in the No. 99, but nothing has been finalized at the moment. Likewise, there is currently no word surrounding Jake Garcia and if he will be back in the No. 13.

And with Majeski’s departure from the No. 98, who will get the nod to fill that vacancy, if the truck returns at all? Luke Fenhaus and Luke Baldwin ran 12 and five races, respectively, for ThorSport in 2025, so they could be potential candidates for promotion.

The next question is if the team will stay at its current size or get smaller in the wake of Crafton’s departure. The team had four full-time trucks in 2025 along with a No. 66 that ran all but five races, so it remains to be seen if ThorSport will find the sponsorship and drivers to keep the No. 66 running next season.

Halmar Friesen Racing

As long as Stewart Friesen is medically cleared to race, expect to see him in the No. 52 at Daytona in February.

Beyond Friesen and the No. 52, HFR has run a part-time No. 62 on sporadic occasions, and it hopes to give that second truck a full-time schedule for 2026.

Wesley Slimp, Cole Butcher and Mike Christopher Jr. made starts in the No. 62 for 2025. They could be candidates for the seat in 2026, and it’s uncertain if HFR will seek a second full-time driver or if it will roll with a rotation of part timers as it did in 2025.

TRICON Garage

Kaden Honeycutt will replace Corey Heim in the No. 11, while Tanner Gray and Gio Ruggiero will reprise their roles in the Nos. 15 and 17, respectively, for 2026. That leaves the No. 1 — which seems likely to be another revolving door of Toyota drivers and Toyota prospects, based on its past setup — and No. 5 driven by Toni Breidinger as the question marks for TRICON Garage heading into 2026.

Breidinger’s trucks have featured a multitude of high-profile sponsors including Dave and Buster’s, Coach, Celsius and Raising Cane’s, and while she struggled in her first full-time Truck season, she would probably have a spot on the team as long as those sponsors returned. If TRICON and Breidinger move on, however, the team would need to find sponsorship to keep the No. 5 running.

The other point of intrigue is reigning series champion Heim. He seems poised at the moment to run a part-time Cup schedule with 23XI Racing and a part-time O’Reilly schedule, which could leave him open to run part-time Truck starts with TRICON in 2026. And given how well he performed last year, it would be beneficial for TRICON if it could bring him back for even one race.

Niece Motorsports

In the 2025 season, Niece Motorsports ran three full-time trucks and one part time. All that’s known about the team’s 2026 is that Tyler Reif, Conner Jones and Parker Eatmon will be running part-time schedules in the team’s No. 42 and that Landen Lewis will be running part time as well, with the truck number unknown.

Matt Mills, who drove full-time for Niece in the No. 42 last year, will switch numbers if he returns to the team in 2026: at the moment, his status is unknown.

Andres Perez finishing the year by running the final eight races of 2025 in Niece’s No. 44, while Bayley Currey finished the year in Niece’s No. 45 after running a total of 16 races for the team. Their statuses are also unknown.

If Mills, Perez and Currey reprise their roles on the team for 2026, its lineup for the upcoming season is rather straightforward. If they don’t, Niece’s lineup for 2026 is wide open.

Team Reaume, formerly Reaume Brothers Racing, ran three full-time trucks in 2025, and NASCAR’s resident movie star Frankie Muniz is confirmed to reprise his role in the No. 33 for 2026.

That leaves Reaume’s Nos. 2 and 22 open for 2026. Sixteen different drivers made starts between the two trucks in 2025, and while we’ll likely see a fair share of those 16 drivers in the 2026 rotation, the only driver that we know of for sure is team owner Josh Reaume, barring a surprise retirement.

Similar to Reaume, Freedom Racing Enterprises is co-owned by driver Spencer Boyd, who raced the full 2025 season in the team’s No. 76. Their plans for next year are unknown, but expect Boyd to be behind the wheel if the team reprises its role in the upcoming season.

Rounding out the full-time 2025 teams with uncertain plans for 2026 is Young’s Motorsports, which ran a full-time No. 02 and a part-time No. 20 in 2025. Nathan Byrd ran 15 races for the team in 2025, while Stefan Parsons ran the second-most with five. It’s unknown who will be in the truck for 2026, but it’ll likely be another revolving door of the drivers, as the team last had a full-time driver in 2020. That’s assuming, of course, the team is back at all.

Part-Time Teams

The majority of part-time Truck teams with unannounced plans consist of owner-drivers like Norm Benning, Timmy Hill, Clay Greenfield, Akinori Ogata and Justin Carroll. Their 2026 racing plans boil down to whether or not they can find the proper funding to compete.

Henderson Motorsports, however, is a different story. The team ran nine races in 2025 — eight with longtime driver Parker Kligerman and one with Patrick Emerling. Sadly, team owner Charlie Henderson died in June, but the team ran the remaining four races after his death with his family at the helm.

With 2025 in the rearview mirror, the question now turns to the future of Henderson for 2026 and beyond and if the team will survive long term without its namesake owner. The team has attempted the season opener at Daytona International Speedway for five consecutive years, so now it’s a game of waiting to see if the famous No. 75 turns laps at The World Center of Racing in February.

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