2020 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 100 Largest For-Hire Carriers in North America
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Fleets have been overcoming unprecedented challenges to keep essential freight moving during the pandemic.
See the locations of the headquarters for each of the Top 100 for-hire carriers in North America.
COVID-19 has transformed 2020 into a tumultuous year for trucking, but the Top 100 list remains stable, at least for now.
Rankings
| Rank This Year | Rank Last Year | Company | Revenue (000) | Net Income (000) | Employees | Tractors* | Trailers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | UPS Inc.
|
74,094,000 | 4,440,000 | 495,000 | 19,851 | 107,542 |
| 2 | 2 | FedEx Corp.
|
68,869,000 | 2,359,000 | 475,000 | 29,813 | 113,218 |
| 3 | 3 | XPO
|
16,648,000 | 379,000 | 100,000 | 15,500 | 40,000 |
| 4 | 4 | J.B. Hunt Transport Services
|
9,165,258 | 516,000 | 29,106 | 17,972 | 35,093 |
| 5 | 7 | Schneider
|
5,000,000 | 147,000 | 15,650 | 9,000 | 35,100 |
| 6 | 6 | Yellow Corp.
|
4,871,200 | -104,000 | 30,000 | 14,100 | 43,700 |
| 7 | 5 | Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings
|
4,843,950 | 310,178 | 23,800 | 19,520 | 58,315 |
| 8 | 9 | Old Dominion Freight Line
|
4,109,111 | 615,518 | 21,159 | 9,296 | 37,539 |
| 9 | 8 | Landstar System
|
4,084,577 | 227,720 | 1,333 | 10,243 | 17,067 |
| 10 | 11 | Ryder System
|
3,968,754 | 226,209 | |||
| 11 | 10 | TFI International
|
3,903,828 | 233,891 | 16,700 | 15,844 | 25,505 |
| 12 | 12 | Hub Group
|
3,668,117 | 107,171 | 5,000 | 3,900 | 4,920 |
| 13 | 13 | Estes Express Lines
|
3,260,000 | - | 19,000 | 7,485 | 38,617 |
| 14 | 14 | ArcBest
|
2,988,310 | 39,985 | 13,000 | 4,137 | 23,639 |
| 15 | 16 | Penske Logistics
|
2,600,000 | - | 19,475 | 4,634 | 17,626 |
| 16 | 15 | Werner Enterprises
|
2,463,701 | 166,944 | 12,736 | 8,033 | 24,145 |
| 17 | 18 | Prime Inc.
|
2,288,397 | 307,504 | 4,900 | 7,416 | 14,116 |
| 18 | 19 | NFI
|
2,140,000 | - | 12,600 | 4,550 | 12,500 |
| 19 | 23 | R+L Carriers
|
1,972,000 | - | |||
| 20 | 17 | Roadrunner Freight
|
1,847,862 | -340,937 | 3,600 | ||
| 21 | 25 | Saia Inc.
|
1,786,735 | 113,719 | 10,400 | 4,779 | 16,376 |
| 22 | 27 | Kenan Advantage Group
|
1,758,645 | - | 9,400 | 6,977 | 11,225 |
| 23 | 21 | Daseke Inc. (TFI)
|
1,737,000 | -307,400 | 5,946 | 2,334 | |
| 24 | 20 | U.S. Xpress Enterprises
|
1,707,361 | -3,043 | 8,572 | 6,900 | 15,500 |
| 25 | 24 | CRST The Transportation Solution
|
1,559,000 | - | 6,778 | 5,808 | 14,513 |
| 26 | 26 | C.R. England
|
1,545,199 | - | 8,153 | 4,309 | 6,604 |
| 27 | 28 | Universal Logistics Holdings
|
1,511,998 | 37,586 | 6,541 | 5,343 | 4,428 |
| 28 | 22 | UniGroup
|
1,500,000 | - | |||
| 29 | 31 | Forward Air
|
1,410,395 | 87,099 | 5,652 | 1,353 | 7,178 |
| 30 | 29 | Sirva
|
1,400,000 | - | |||
| 31 | 30 | Southeastern Freight Lines
|
1,384,438 | - | 8,839 | 3,385 | 10,666 |
| 32 | 32 | Averitt Express
|
1,319,000 | - | 9,007 | 5,319 | 14,905 |
| 33 | 33 | Anderson Trucking Service
|
1,274,459 | - | 2,294 | 2,780 | 7,209 |
| 34 | 34 | Evans Delivery
|
1,240,000 | - | 430 | 6,200 | 550 |
| 35 | 35 | Crete Carrier Corp.
|
1,200,000 | - | 6,500 | ||
| 36 | 36 | Purolator
|
1,166,279 | - | 11,000 | 465 | 1,329 |
| 37 | 46 | Day & Ross
|
1,130,700 | - | 5,000 | 4,000 | 8,000 |
| 38 | 45 | Quality Carriers
|
1,090,684 | - | |||
| 39 | 37 | Lynden
|
1,075,000 | - | 3,039 | 998 | 2,679 |
| 40 | 39 | Ruan
|
1,002,045 | - | 5,900 | 3,704 | 9,661 |
| 41 | 40 | KLLM Transport Services
|
936,000 | - | 3,600 | 5,400 | |
| 42 | 41 | Atlas World Group
|
906,400 | 96,000 | 754 | 1,228 | 3,864 |
| 43 | 42 | Covenant Logistics Group
|
894,528 | 8,477 | 5,550 | 3,021 | 6,739 |
| 44 | 44 | Central Transport International
|
856,000 | - | |||
| 45 | 43 | Pitt Ohio
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855,982 | - | 5,680 | 2,055 | 5,836 |
| 46 | 48 | Marten Transport
|
843,271 | 61,071 | 4,087 | 3,212 | 5,464 |
| 47 | 47 | Cardinal Logistics
|
805,000 | - | 4,220 | 3,055 | 8,700 |
| 48 | 49 | PS Logistics
|
747,339 | - | 3,664 | ||
| 49 | 51 | Stevens Transport
|
737,294 | 85,210 | 2,750 | 1,950 | 3,290 |
| 50 | 50 | AAA Cooper Transportation
|
718,000 | - | 5,000 | 2,552 | 6,958 |
| 51 | 54 | United Road Services
|
713,000 | - | 1,837 | 2,368 | 1,200 |
| 52 | 52 | Western Express
|
683,535 | - | 3,250 | 3,050 | 8,080 |
| 53 | 54 | Dayton Freight Lines
|
679,000 | - | 4,949 | 1,955 | 4,600 |
| 54 | 53 | Mullen Group
|
664,550 | - | 3,768 | 1,978 | 5,139 |
| 55 | 56 | Bennett Family of Cos.
|
650,846 | - | 1,029 | 1,810 | 2,186 |
| 56 | 62 | Bison Transport
|
633,817 | - | 3,688 | 2,185 | 5,711 |
| 57 | 61 | OnTrac Inc.
|
618,000 | - | |||
| 58 | 66 | Trimac Transportation
|
610,000 | - | 3,000 | 2,120 | 3,400 |
| 59 | 59 | Suddath
|
600,000 | - | 2,200 | ||
| 60 | 57 | Heartland Express
|
596,815 | 72,967 | 4,050 | 2,630 | 8,000 |
| 61 | 69 | Black Horse Carriers
|
561,000 | - | 4,040 | 1,958 | 4,500 |
| 62 | 73 | Hirschbach Motor Lines
|
550,530 | - | 1,141 | 1,887 | 3,503 |
| 63 | 58 | Mercer Transportation
|
543,651 | - | 301 | 2,383 | 2,600 |
| 64 | 67 | Canada Cartage
|
535,800 | 5,800 | 3,269 | 2,736 | 3,019 |
| 65 | 63 | Cowan Systems
|
533,012 | - | 2,397 | 2,279 | 6,782 |
| 66 | 70 | Two Men and a Truck Movers
|
524,929 | - | 11,396 | ||
| 67 | 64 | USA Truck
|
522,631 | -4,698 | 2,098 | 1,990 | 6,092 |
| 68 | 65 | P.A.M. Transport
|
514,177 | 7,900 | 2,666 | 2,130 | 7,081 |
| 69 | 60 | Jack Cooper Holdings
|
507,000 | - | 3,753 | ||
| 70 | 75 | A. Duie Pyle
|
491,100 | - | 3,281 | 1,209 | 2,285 |
| 71 | 74 | LaserShip Inc./OnTrac Inc.
|
452,000 | - | |||
| 72 | 72 | TMC Transportation
|
450,000 | - | |||
| 73 | 76 | Roehl Transport
|
438,659 | - | 2,702 | 2,040 | 5,481 |
| 74 | 68 | Dart Transit Co.
|
424,000 | - | 2,362 | ||
| 75 | 71 | 10 Roads Express
|
390,445 | - | |||
| 76 | 77 | Maverick USA
|
389,182 | - | 2,125 | 1,582 | 2,582 |
| 77 | 78 | Transport Investments
|
384,719 | - | 200 | ||
| 78 | 79 | Mesilla Valley Transportation
|
383,950 | - | 1,662 | ||
| 79 | 83 | Koch Cos.
|
351,081 | - | 1,224 | 1,164 | 5,540 |
| 80 | 80 | IMC Logistics
|
347,395 | - | 2,012 | ||
| 81 | 81 | Red Classic
|
342,100 | - | 1,275 | 577 | 2,918 |
| 82 | Salmon Cos.
|
341,073 | - | 824 | 1,104 | ||
| 83 | 89 | John Christner Trucking
|
338,873 | - | 207 | 839 | 1,244 |
| 84 | 95 | Challenger Motor Freight
|
335,000 | - | 1,200 | 1,570 | 3,550 |
| 85 | 82 | Foodliner/Quest Liner
|
334,103 | - | 1,315 | 1,317 | 2,340 |
| 86 | 86 | RoadOne IntermodaLogistics
|
314,000 | - | 2,200 | 1,700 | 350 |
| 87 | 85 | Melton Truck Lines
|
305,717 | - | 1,868 | 1,457 | 2,407 |
| 88 | Fastfrate Group
|
301,520 | - | 1,530 | 1,116 | 1,350 | |
| 89 | 86 | ContainerPort Group
|
300,000 | - | 400 | ||
| 90 | Dupré Logistics
|
297,582 | - | 1,313 | 750 | 1,471 | |
| 91 | 84 | TransAm Trucking
|
297,000 | - | |||
| 92 | 90 | Heniff Transportation Systems
|
293,000 | - | |||
| 93 | 86 | Trans-System
|
290,000 | - | 1,051 | 1,026 | 1,849 |
| 94 | 93 | Hansen & Adkins Auto Transport
|
283,137 | 6,622 | 955 | 1,224 | 945 |
| 95 | 97 | Martin Transportation Systems
|
276,978 | - | 2,357 | 1,264 | 2,417 |
| 96 | 95 | Quantix Supply Chain Solutions
|
276,000 | - | 1,100 | ||
| 97 | FFE Transportation Services
|
275,000 | - | 1,511 | 1,000 | 1,450 | |
| 98 | 98 | PGT Holdings
|
273,828 | - | 680 | 1,090 | 1,800 |
| 99 | Groendyke Transport
|
273,125 | - | ||||
| 100 | 99 | Superior Bulk Logistics
|
269,000 | - |
About the Rankings...
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.
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