2020 Essential Management and Operating Information for the 100 Largest Private Carriers in North America
Up Front
Fleets are changing practices for the long run while responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

See the headquarters locations for each of the Top 100 private carriers in North America.

The fleets on this year’s Top 100 list have shown resilience amid financial and logistical challenges.
Rankings
Current Rank Company Tractors
1
PepsiCo North America Beverages
9,100
2
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United
1,437
3
Reyes Beer Division
1,340
4
Reyes Coca Cola Bottling
931
5
Swire Coca-Cola USA
838
6
Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution
795
7
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
721
8
Anheuser-Busch Cos.
687
9
Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast
677
10
Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages
611
11
Coca-Cola Beverages Florida
598
12
Columbia Distributing
452
13
Pepsi Bottling Ventures
355
14
Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
287
15
JJ Taylor Distributing
205
16
Breakthru Beverage Group
183
17
Nestle Waters North America
182
18
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. High Country
155
19
Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr. Pepper Bottling Co.
150
20
Odom Corp.
141
21
Chesterman Co.
137
22
Clark Beverage Group
125
23
Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
118
24
Virginia Eagle Distributing
100
25
Upstate Niagara Cooperative
91
26
North Florida Sales
89
27
Republic National Distributing Co.
84
28
Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
75
29
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Hickory, N.C.
71
30
Gulf Distributing
64
31
Pepsi MidAmerica
61
32
Pepsi Cola Newburgh Bottling Co.
60
33
Canada Dry Potomac Corp.
53
34
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of New York
52
35
Brown Bottling Group
48
35
Long Beverage
48
37
Western Wyoming Beverages
47
38
Anheuser-Busch Sales of Washington
45
39
Quality Beverage
40
40
Birrell Bottling Co
34
41
Anheuser-Busch Distribution of New York
33
41
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Corbin
33
43
Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of New Haven
30
44
Shore Point Distributing
28
45
Lane Sales
27
46
Corwin Beverage Co.
26
47
Anheuser-Busch Sales of Hawaii
23
47
House of Schwan
23
49
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. (Virginia)
22
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Private Carrier News
Business, Technology, Private

Amazon Scraps Planned Merchant Fee

Amazon.com Inc. is scrapping a planned fee on merchants that don’t use its shipping services, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg.

Spencer Soper | Bloomberg News
September 20, 2023
Business, Equipment, For-Hire, Private

Experts: Freight Environment Unlikely to Improve Much Soon

Executives across multiple segments of the trucking industry expect the freight environment to take considerable time to improve substantially.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
September 20, 2023
Business, Fuel, For-Hire, Private

Love’s Travel Stops No. 1 on Happiest Employees List

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, a family-run chain of truck stops founded nearly 60 years ago, topped storied firms like IBM, Nike and Apple in a new ranking of employee well-being.

Matthew Boyle | Bloomberg News
September 20, 2023
Business, Technology, Logistics, Private

Amazon to Hire 250,000 for Holidays, Boost Wages

Amazon.com Inc. will hire 250,000 employees this holiday shopping season and boost average pay for logistics personnel as it seeks to recruit and retain workers amid a labor shortage.

September 19, 2023
Business, Technology, Private, TCA

Walmart Now Offers Late-Evening Delivery, Pickup

Walmart is now offering express home delivery until 10 p.m. on orders placed by 9:30 p.m. so that “last-minute needs are delivered to your doorstep just in time,” the company said.

Leada Gore | al.com
September 12, 2023
Business, Technology, Logistics, Private

Amazon Service Lets Merchants Deliver to Physical Stores

Amazon.com Inc. is offering a new service that will let its 2 million merchant partners deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses.

Spencer Soper | Bloomberg News
September 12, 2023
Government, Business, Private

Kroger and Albertsons to Sell 413 Stores to C&S

Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. agreed to sell 413 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers in a divestiture designed to help win antitrust approval for their $24.6 billion merger.

September 8, 2023
Government, Business, Private

Kroger, Albertsons In Talks to Sell Stores to C&S, SoftBank

Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. are selling some of their stores in an effort to win regulatory approval for their $25 billion merger, according to people familiar with the matter.

September 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Logistics, Private

Amazon, Shopify Open Amazon Logistics Resources to Sellers

Amazon .com Inc. and Shopify Inc. have struck a deal to allow merchants who pay for Shopify’s e-commerce tools to use Amazon’s logistics network.

Matt Day | Bloomberg News
August 31, 2023
Business, Logistics, Private

Tyson Foods Reorganizes, Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

Tyson Foods will centralize areas such as transportation and warehousing under fresh meats head Brady Stewart in the food giant’s latest effort to restore profits.

Gerson Freitas Jr. | Bloomberg News
August 30, 2023