| 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
Anchorage’s International Airport Adds 5 Carriers
The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport has added five new international cargo carriers to its lineup this year, setting the stage for continued growth.
Ryder Q3 Profit Slides Even as Acquisitions Boost Revenue
Looking forward, Chief Financial Officer John Diez said Ryder expects earnings growth in the fourth quarter as a result of its contractual portfolio.
Mullen Group Q3 Earnings Dip Despite Revenue Growth
The Okotoks, Alberta-based company posted net income of C$38.3 million, or 41 cents a diluted share, for the three months ending Sept. 30.
Knight-Swift Reports Nearly $1.9B in Revenue for Q3
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings experienced a 49.4% decline in earnings year over year during the third quarter of 2024, the company reported Oct. 23.
UPS Sees Profit Growth for First Time in Nearly Two Years
UPS Inc. posted a year-over-year increase in revenue during the third quarter of 2024 despite challenging market conditions, the company reported Oct. 24.
Lynden Transport Selected to Deliver Capitol Christmas Tree
Lynden Transport will carry the Capitol Christmas Tree from Alaska to the nation’s capital later this year.
Walmart Challenges Amazon With Prescription Delivery
Walmart Inc. will start delivering prescriptions to U.S. homes in as little as 30 minutes, a move that’s intended to grab a bigger slice of online spending and compete against Amazon.com Inc.
Consumers Switch to Slower Shipping, Squeezing UPS, FedEx
More people are switching to slower delivery options to save money, and profits at FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. are getting squeezed.
J.B. Hunt Q3 Profit Beats Expectations, Boosts Share Price
Profit at J.B. Hunt Transport Services fell in the third quarter of 2024 but outperformed analyst expectations as intermodal volume rose year over year.
Hub Group: Easo Deal Forms Largest US-Mexico Intermodal Firm
Hub Group will team up with Mexico City-based Easo in a cross-border and intermodal joint venture, the companies said Oct. 8.
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