2018 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 100 largest For-Hire Carriers in North America
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Rankings
Rank Company Revenue (000)
1 Bison Transport 12,028
2 CalArk 13,007
3 Spee-Dee Delivery Service 14,600
4 Fletes y Materiales Forsis 31,400
5 Transportes Leon-Mexico 35,700
6 Transportes del Valle 43,200
7 Servicio de Transportacion Jaguar 44,000
8 Autotransportes de Carga El Duero / Fletes El Duero 44,200
9 Transportes de Carga FEMA 55,800
10 Transportes Comandos del Norte 63,200
11 Peninsula Truck Lines 66,476
12 Anderson Trucking Service 67,189
13 Dependable Highway Express 73,600
14 Landstar System 89,041
15 Transportadora Hercel / Transportadores Unidos (Grupo Transportes) 90,600
16 TransX Group of Companies 91,419
17 Midwest Motor Express 105,100
18 Standard Forwarding 110,000
est
19 Fastfrate Group 123,764
20 Forward Air 163,932
21 Ward Trucking 166,000
est
22 Transportes Julian de Obregon 173,700
23 Oak Harbor Freight Lines 204,947
24 Transportes Castores de Baja California 221,100
25 Daylight Transport 229,000
est
26 Autotransportes de Carga Tresguerras 231,500
27 Central Freight Lines 266,000
28 Day & Ross Freight 278,374
29 A. Duie Pyle Inc. 309,600
30 New England Motor Freight 400,500
31 Roadrunner Freight 464,000
32 AAA Cooper Transportation 548,000
33 Pitt Ohio Transportation Group 555,907
34 Dayton Freight Lines 558,200
35 TFI International 748,175
36 Central Transport 754,000
37 Averitt Express 768,957
38 Southeastern Freight Lines 1,040,423
39 Saia Inc. 1,378,510
40 R+L Carriers 1,580,000
41 ABF Freight 1,993,314
42 Estes Express Lines 2,740,000
43 UPS Inc. 2,998,000
44 Old Dominion Freight Line 3,358,112
45 XPO 3,600,000
46 Yellow Corp. 4,891,000
47 FedEx Freight 6,904,000
Extras
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For-Hire News
Business, For-Hire

Roadrunner Opens Service Center in Atlanta

Roadrunner opened a new less-than-truckload service center in Atlanta, the longhaul freight carrier announced April 10.

Connor D. Wolf | Staff Reporter
April 10, 2024
Business, Technology, Autonomous, For-Hire

Kodiak Forms Autonomous Truck Council With Walmart, UPS

Kodiak Robotics launched an advisory council to bolster its efforts to commercialize autonomous trucks with the help of trucking industry leaders, the company announced March 27.

Connor D. Wolf | Staff Reporter
April 8, 2024
Government, Business, Logistics, For-Hire, TCA

Penske Sues Sacramento Over Environmental Plan

Penske Truck Leasing Co. has sued the city of Sacramento, Calif., alleging the city's environmental plan will harm the company's large North Sacramento facility.

Theresa Cliff | The Sacramento Bee
April 4, 2024
Government, Business, Logistics, For-Hire

UPS to Become the Primary Air Cargo Provider for USPS

UPS will become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service after FedEx said it wasn’t able to reach an agreement on mutually beneficial terms to extend its contract.

Michelle Chapman | Associated Press
April 1, 2024
Government, Business, Technology, For-Hire

Work Continues on Establishing PC-12 Oil Category

PC-12 will replace the current API CK-4 and FA-4 engine oils, but there are still hurdles ahead of the finish line.

Michael Freeze | Features Editor
March 29, 2024
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

UPS Sees Sales, Profit Growth Coming Out of ‘Difficult’ 2023

UPS Inc. expects sales and profit to grow over the next three years as the courier overcomes soft demand for package delivery coming out of the pandemic.

Kiel Porter | Bloomberg News
March 26, 2024
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

Amazon Delivery Rival Pandion Secures Funding for Expansion

E-commerce logistics startup Pandion — which helps retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue compete with Amazon’s delivery — has secured $41.5 million in fresh funds to expand its operation.

Spencer Soper | Bloomberg News
March 22, 2024
Business, For-Hire

FedEx Plans $5 Billion Buyback of Shares

FedEx Corp. plans to buy back $5 billion of its shares as cost-cutting efforts have helped boost the courier’s profits as fiscal third-quarter earnings beat expectations.

March 21, 2024
Government, Business, Technology, Logistics, For-Hire

Aerolane Seeks to Use Freighter Planes to Pull Cargo Gliders

Aerolane is testing a business plan to pull cargo gliders with small freighter planes.

Thomas Black | Bloomberg News
March 19, 2024
Business, Equipment, Logistics, For-Hire

PS Logistics Buys Yordy Transport, Boosts Flatbed Ops Again

Diamond State Trucking & Logistics is to buy Morton, Ill.-based flatbed carrier Yordy Transport for an undisclosed sum, parent company PS Logistics said.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
March 14, 2024
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