2014 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 100 largest For-Hire Carriers in the U.S. and Canada
| Rank This Year | Rank Last Year | Company | Revenue (000) | Net Income (000) | Employees | Tractors* | Trailers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | UPS Inc.
|
55,438,000 | 4,372,000 | 395,000 | ||
| 2 | 2 | FedEx Corp.
|
45,100,000 | 2,046,000 | 300,000 | 25,028 | 92,982 |
| 3 | 4 | J.B. Hunt Transport Services
|
5,585,000 | 342,000 | 18,467 | 11,235 | 26,340 |
| 4 | 3 | Con-way Inc.
|
5,473,356 | 99,153 | 29,500 | 11,867 | 32,800 |
| 5 | 5 | Yellow Corp.
|
4,865,400 | -83,600 | 32,000 | 14,500 | 46,500 |
| 6 | 7 | Swift Transportation
|
4,118,195 | 155,422 | 16,900 | 17,961 | 57,310 |
| 7 | 6 | Schneider
|
3,600,000 | - | 16,900 | 11,700 | 31,000 |
| 8 | 69 | Hub Group
|
3,373,898 | 69,110 | 1,982 | 2,624 | 448 |
| 9 | 8 | TFI International
|
3,019,367 | 98,754 | 14,210 | 11,930 | 11,200 |
| 10 | 9 | Landstar System
|
2,644,780 | 146,009 | 1,217 | 8,174 | 12,912 |
| 11 | 10 | Ryder System
|
2,383,063 | - | 14,312 | 4,098 | 6,042 |
| 12 | 11 | Old Dominion Freight Line
|
2,337,648 | 206,113 | 14,073 | 6,296 | 25,052 |
| 14 | 13 | Werner Enterprises
|
2,029,183 | 86,785 | 11,656 | 7,050 | 23,705 |
| 15 | 14 | Sirva
|
1,994,200 | 9,700 | 2,700 | 1,832 | 6,516 |
| 16 | 15 | Estes Express Lines
|
1,948,525 | - | 14,909 | 6,277 | 24,102 |
| 17 | 18 | UniGroup
|
1,700,000 | - | 1,050 | 6,301 | 10,000 |
| 18 | 16 | U.S. Xpress Enterprises
|
1,600,000 | - | 9,700 | 7,996 | 17,000 |
| 19 | 17 | Purolator
|
1,575,391 | - | 12,000 | 493 | 1,292 |
| 20 | 19 | C.R. England
|
1,495,597 | - | 7,352 | 4,498 | 6,400 |
| 21 | 24 | Roadrunner Freight
|
1,361,410 | 48,996 | 3,325 | 3,723 | 3,429 |
| 22 | 21 | Prime Inc.
|
1,300,998 | 163,439 | 4,400 | 5,347 | 9,436 |
| 23 | 23 | Kenan Advantage Group
|
1,286,631 | - | 7,530 | 6,301 | 9,774 |
| 24 | 20 | CRST The Transportation Solution
|
1,269,899 | - | 4,975 | 4,490 | 7,552 |
| 25 | 22 | Saia Inc.
|
1,139,094 | 43,627 | 8,400 | 3,426 | 10,848 |
| 26 | 25 | NFI
|
1,090,000 | 33,975 | 7,631 | 2,304 | 7,391 |
| 27 | 27 | Southeastern Freight Lines
|
1,065,187 | - | 8,030 | 3,318 | 11,042 |
| 28 | 26 | Universal Logistics Holdings
|
1,033,492 | 50,572 | 4,339 | 4,137 | 6,198 |
| 29 | 29 | Averitt Express
|
1,020,000 | - | 4,121 | 12,139 | |
| 30 | 28 | Crete Carrier Corp.
|
1,008,164 | - | 5,524 | 5,300 | 13,614 |
| 31 | 31 | Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings
|
969,237 | 69,282 | 4,600 | 3,991 | 9,181 |
| 32 | 30 | Penske Logistics
|
968,000 | - | 10,000 | 1,598 | 2,816 |
| 33 | 47 | Heartland Express
|
961,525 | 90,821 | 5,220 | 4,878 | 14,372 |
| 34 | 35 | Quality Carriers
|
929,810 | -42,038 | 1,145 | 1,721 | 5,255 |
| 36 | 37 | Atlas World Group
|
844,827 | 7,747 | 700 | 2,140 | 3,922 |
| 37 | 53 | Jack Cooper Holdings
|
825,000 | - | 4,500 | 4,000 | |
| 38 | 38 | Ruan
|
807,507 | - | 5,088 | 3,651 | 6,683 |
| 39 | 36 | Day & Ross
|
796,476 | - | 1,734 | 1,612 | 2,627 |
| 40 | 39 | Trimac Transportation
|
761,000 | - | 3,345 | 1,970 | 4,801 |
| 41 | 32 | Anderson Trucking Service
|
750,204 | - | 1,300 | 2,205 | 5,300 |
| 42 | 74 | KLLM Transport Services
|
743,682 | - | 3,250 | 4,600 | |
| 43 | XPO
|
702,300 | - | 2,259 | |||
| 44 | 41 | Covenant Logistics Group
|
684,549 | 5,244 | 4,202 | 2,688 | 6,861 |
| 45 | 44 | Celadon Group Inc.
|
680,963 | 23,314 | 1,331 | 3,790 | 8,385 |
| 47 | 45 | Forward Air
|
652,481 | 54,497 | 3,537 | 1,517 | 3,017 |
| 48 | 43 | Stevens Transport
|
642,138 | 86,285 | 2,835 | 2,710 | 3,615 |
| 49 | 46 | AAA Cooper Transportation
|
580,371 | - | 4,500 | 2,450 | 6,000 |
| 50 | 51 | Contrans Group
|
555,715 | 28,577 | 1,400 | 2,600 | |
| 51 | 52 | USA Truck
|
555,005 | -9,110 | 2,750 | 2,248 | 6,054 |
| 52 | 48 | Canada Cartage
|
541,800 | - | 3,800 | 2,246 | 2,589 |
| 53 | 49 | Mullen Group
|
537,858 | - | 2,170 | 1,325 | 3,329 |
| 54 | 50 | TransX Group of Companies
|
533,061 | - | 2,630 | 1,540 | 4,280 |
| 55 | 60 | Suddath
|
500,000 | 7,000 | 2,000 | 330 | 692 |
| 56 | 63 | Bison Transport
|
365,911 | - | 1,738 | 1,402 | 4,000 |
| 57 | 54 | Mercer Transportation
|
483,161 | - | 315 | 2,183 | |
| 58 | 59 | Western Express
|
463,453 | - | 2,962 | 2,419 | 5,650 |
| 59 | 57 | Shevell Group
|
450,105 | - | 3,515 | 2,140 | 4,475 |
| 60 | Daseke Inc. (TFI)
|
447,000 | - | 1,990 | 2,055 | 3,800 | |
| 61 | 64 | Pitt Ohio
|
429,800 | - | 2,851 | 1,070 | 3,134 |
| 62 | 55 | Dart Transit Co.
|
426,320 | - | 411 | 1,886 | 6,799 |
| 63 | 62 | Groupe Robert
|
410,719 | - | 3,300 | 1,370 | 3,000 |
| 64 | 65 | P.A.M. Transport
|
402,813 | 5,915 | 3,034 | 1,837 | 5,170 |
| 65 | United Vision Logistics
|
400,325 | 19,512 | 291 | 1,505 | 1,668 | |
| 66 | 73 | Dayton Freight Lines
|
386,000 | - | 3,361 | 1,167 | 2,750 |
| 67 | 68 | Roehl Transport
|
384,007 | - | 2,290 | 2,058 | 5,148 |
| 68 | 80 | Cowan Systems
|
377,428 | - | 1,878 | 1,748 | 3,795 |
| 69 | 67 | Mesilla Valley Transportation
|
376,000 | - | 1,700 | 1,200 | 4,500 |
| 70 | 75 | Graebel Moving and Workplace Solutions
|
363,100 | 158 | 2,271 | 618 | 963 |
| 71 | 71 | Acme Truck Line
|
356,157 | - | 3,200 | 2,007 | 2,257 |
| 72 | 72 | Transport America
|
347,465 | - | 1,945 | 1,515 | 4,450 |
| 73 | 70 | Comcar Industries
|
346,403 | - | 2,679 | 1,986 | 4,401 |
| 75 | 78 | United Road Services
|
333,464 | - | 2,100 | 1,740 | 1,325 |
| 76 | 83 | OnTrac Inc.
|
332,331 | - | 1,697 | 445 | |
| 77 | 88 | Bennett Family of Cos.
|
327,857 | - | 727 | 1,179 | 1,422 |
| 78 | 76 | Challenger Motor Freight
|
325,502 | - | 1,800 | 1,440 | 2,900 |
| 79 | 82 | Epes Carriers Inc.
|
320,000 | 17,700 | 1,446 | 1,115 | |
| 80 | 81 | California Cartage Co.
|
318,000 | - | 1,000 | ||
| 81 | 84 | Maverick USA
|
315,014 | 18,674 | 1,777 | 1,405 | 1,971 |
| 82 | 87 | Evans Delivery
|
310,000 | - | 200 | 2,250 | 525 |
| 83 | 85 | A. Duie Pyle
|
293,000 | - | 2,235 | 731 | 1,702 |
| 84 | 86 | Cassens Transport
|
289,794 | - | 1,430 | 1,203 | 1,303 |
| 85 | 91 | Koch Cos.
|
274,705 | - | 955 | 824 | 4,279 |
| 86 | 90 | Fastfrate Group
|
274,633 | - | |||
| 87 | 92 | Towne Air Freight
|
265,000 | - | 1,060 | 1,600 | |
| 88 | Dependable Supply Chain Services
|
257,000 | - | 1,850 | 374 | 1,231 | |
| 89 | 89 | John Christner Trucking
|
256,426 | 9,417 | 211 | 878 | 1,188 |
| 90 | 96 | Superior Bulk Logistics
|
250,700 | 8,900 | 1,414 | 1,176 | 2,037 |
| 91 | Trans-System
|
246,002 | - | 898 | 876 | 1,100 | |
| 92 | 97 | Groendyke Transport
|
239,000 | - | 1,368 | 955 | 1,800 |
| 93 | Arnold Transportation
|
237,000 | - | 1,429 | 1,399 | 4,265 | |
| 94 | Calyx Transportation Group
|
223,323 | - | 373 | 488 | 750 | |
| 95 | 98 | Paschall Truck Lines
|
222,685 | - | 1,450 | 1,130 | 2,600 |
| 96 | 93 | Wheaton World Wide Moving
|
221,000 | 6,413 | 183 | 740 | 1,143 |
| 97 | 95 | Quantix Supply Chain Solutions
|
220,000 | 30,000 | 1,000 | 725 | 50 |
| 98 | 99 | Brown Integrated Logistics
|
218,779 | - | 1,107 | 1,002 | 4,800 |
| 99 | Bridge Terminal Transport
|
218,244 | - | 262 | |||
| 100 | Falcon Transport
|
217,510 | - |
Top For-Hire Carriers on this list are common and contract freight carriers operating in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Companies are ranked on the basis of annual revenue. To be included in the Top 100 or any of the sectors, please send contact information to tteditor@ttnews.com. We will contact you via phone or e-mail to get information about your company prior to publication of the next Top 100 list.
* Tractor count includes company-owned, lease-to-own and owner-operator tractors.
On the Bubble
Marten Transport Q4 Profit Halves on Freight Market Weakness
Profit at Marten Transport more than halved in the fourth quarter of 2024 as ongoing weakness in the freight environment hurt revenues and margins.
Saia Reports Earnings Dip Amid Investments for Q4
Saia Inc. closed out 2024 with lower fourth-quarter earnings amid efforts to reinvest in the operations of the business, but it set a revenue record for the full year, the company said Feb. 3.
ArcBest Sees Profit, Revenue Declines in Q4 2024
The Fort Smith, Ark.-based logistics company posted net income of $29 million, or $1.24 a diluted share, for the three months ending Dec. 31.
UPS Posts 1.5% Revenue Growth; Shares Fall on Amazon Deal
UPS Inc. experienced revenue and earnings growth despite a tougher freight market in the fourth quarter of 2024, the parcel delivery company reported Jan. 30.
Trimac Buys Flatbed Specialist Watt & Stewart
Trimac Transportation acquired flatbed and specialized haulage carrier Watt & Stewart for an undisclosed sum.
Covenant Logistics Q4 Profit Slides on Helene, Higher Costs
Covenant reported a profit of $6.7 million or earnings per diluted share of 24 cents in Q4, just over half the $12.8 million or 47 cents per diluted share profit posted in Q4 2023.
Bay and Bay Expands Flatbed Operations
Minnesota carrier aims to meet the growing needs of existing shippers, particularly in industries requiring transportation of construction materials, machinery and equipment.
Knight-Swift Closes 2024 Preparing for Upturn
The Phoenix-based truckload motor carrier reported a revenue decline of 3.5% in the fourth quarter amid efforts to improve the business ahead of the expected up cycle.
TFI Chassis Buys Mickey Truck Bodies Land in North Carolina
A portfolio of 41 Mickey Truck Bodies property tracts in High Point, N.C., has been flipped for $35.52 million to TFI Chassis Portfolio.
J.B. Hunt Ends 2024 With Slight Revenue Decline
The Lowell, Ark.-based carrier ended the year slightly behind where it was during the prior fourth quarter amid efforts to reinvest and improve operations, the company reported Jan. 16.
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