2017 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 100 largest For-Hire Carriers in North America
Up Front
The nation’s top for-hire carriers are taking steps to shore up capacity in anticipation of increasing demand for freight hauling and a tighter market for drivers.
Find out where the carriers are by regions in North America.
Find out what carriers are doing to prepare for what looks like increased demand for freight hauling this year and next.
Rankings
Rank Company Revenue (000)
1 Roadrunner Freight 720,000
2 Forward Air 570,800
3 Dicom Transportation Group 320,700
4 XPO 253,500
5 LoadOne 97,000
6 Bolt Express 31,839
7 Landstar System 20,130
Extras
About Us: Transport Topics' Top 100 For-Hire Carriers
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On the Bubble

Wheaton World Wide Moving ($209 million), Based in Indianapolis, Wheaton offers domestic and international household goods moving and storage services, along with transportation of high-value products, furniture and store fixtures through Wheaton Van Lines, Bekins Van Lines and Clark & Reid brands.
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For-Hire News
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

UPS Expands Cargo Services in India to Seize Airfreight Boom

UPS Inc. opened a second airport cargo-handling facility in India to capture soaring pandemic-driven demand for airfreight.

Ragini Saxena | Bloomberg News
July 19, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire, Top 100

Trucking Faces Pressure to Prepare for Holidays Early

Supply chain pressures are forcing trucking to get an early start to the holiday shipping season despite a shift of underlying conditions within the industry.

Connor D. Wolf | Staff Reporter
July 18, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

Averitt Announces Pay Increases for Drivers

Cookeville, Tenn.-based Averitt Express announced July 13 it was raising pay for its less-than-truckload drivers as well as providing a new guaranteed weekly minimum for its regional and flatbed drivers and a shorter waiting period in receiving benefits coverage for its new hires.

Dan Ronan | Senior Reporter
July 13, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire, Top 100

XPO Names New Tech Brokerage Company RXO

XPO Logistics’ new tech-enabled brokerage platform that is set to begin operations in the fourth quarter will be called RXO, the company announced July 12.

Dan Ronan | Senior Reporter
July 12, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

J.B. Hunt Expedites Overseas Delivery of New Containers

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. has expedited overseas delivery of new containers as part of its commitment to grow intermodal capacity, the company announced June 30.

June 30, 2022
Business, Technology, Fuel, Logistics, For-Hire

Hyliion, Cummins Collaborate on Hypertruck ERX

Hyliion Inc. announced it is collaborating with Cummins Inc. to bring Hyliion’s natural gas extended range powertrain to North American trucking on schedule.

Roger Gilroy | Senior Reporter
June 30, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

FedEx Predicts Profit Growth Under Three-Year Plan

FedEx Corp. expects to grow earnings per share as much as 19% annually over the next three years by targeting “high-value” customers and squeezing more efficiency out of its networks.

Thomas Black | Bloomberg News
June 29, 2022
Business, Technology, Logistics, Autonomous, For-Hire

J.B. Hunt, Waymo Add Wayfair to Autonomous Trucking Program

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and Waymo added the home goods company Wayfair to its autonomous trucking program, the companies announced June 28.

June 28, 2022
Government, Business, Safety, For-Hire

Supreme Court Declines to Hear C.H. Robinson Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a federal appellate court decision involving a personal injury suit alleging that freight broker C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. was negligent in connection with a serious injury from an accident in 2016 involving a carrier it hired.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
June 28, 2022
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

Roadrunner Adds Five New Direct Lanes to LTL Network

Roadrunner grew its nationwide metro-to-metro service network for less-than-truckload shipments with the addition of five direct lanes, the company announced June 23.

June 28, 2022
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