2021 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 100 Largest For-Hire Carriers in North America
Up Front
After navigating COVID-19's disruption, trucking now has entered a historically strong business environment.
Find out where the Top 100 are located by North American region.
Small carriers often were hardest hit by COVID, but large fleets faced challenges, too.
Rankings
Rank This Year Rank Last Year Company Revenue (000) Net Income (000) Employees Tractors* Trailers
94
Daylight Transport
275,000 -
97
United Vision Logistics
261,000
est
-
98
Central Freight Lines
256,000
est
-
83
R&R Express
343,110 - 291 504 642
100
Smith Transport
246,000 - 1,136 816 2,250
91
Postal Fleet Services
292,568 -
1 1
UPS Inc.
84,628,000 1,343,000 543,000 15,719 87,954
2 2
FedEx Corp.
78,752,000 3,029,000 500,000 36,598 132,540
3 3
XPO
16,252,000 79,000 102,000 15,500 40,000
4 4
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
9,640,000 506,035 30,364 17,777 35,857
7 5
Schneider
4,552,800 211,700 15,225 9,000 36,900
8 5
Yellow Corp.
4,513,700 -53,500 30,000 13,500 41,900
6 7
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings
4,673,863 410,002 22,900 19,025 57,722
10 8
Old Dominion Freight Line
4,015,129 672,682 19,779 9,288 36,650
9 9
Landstar System
4,132,981 192,106 1,320 10,991 17,061
11 10
Ryder Supply Chain Solutions
3,773,800 233,382 73,300 43,300
5 11
TFI International
6,347,134 275,675 16,753 24,604 49,713
13 12
Hub Group
3,495,644 73,559 5,000 3,600 4,800
12 13
Estes Express Lines
3,559,000 - 19,000 8,043 32,656
15 14
ArcBest
2,940,163 71,100 13,000 4,136 22,776
14 15
Penske Logistics
3,200,000 - 19,954 6,674 21,961
17 16
Werner Enterprises
2,372,178 169,078 12,292 7,861 24,400
18 17
Prime Inc.
2,208,764 326,543 4,839 7,199 14,162
16 18
NFI
2,630,000 - 14,500 4,500 12,500
19 19
R+L Carriers
1,973,000
est
-
75 20
Roadrunner Freight
430,000
est
- 893 1,201
20 21
Saia Inc.
1,822,366 138,340 10,600 5,700 17,400
23 22
Kenan Advantage Group
1,572,138 - 8,600 6,854 12,283
26 23
Daseke Inc.
1,454,100 6,200 4,304 5,052 11,579
21 24
U.S. Xpress Enterprises
1,742,101 17,632 7,998 6,500 13,000
24 25
CRST The Transportation Solution
1,502,737 - 6,631 4,704 13,994
25 26
C.R. England
1,466,947 - 7,150 4,000 6,600
29 27
Universal Logistics Holdings
1,391,083 48,132 7,420 4,798 3,843
30 28
UniGroup
1,320,000 - 850 4,500 2,575
33 29
Forward Air
1,269,573 52,767 3,774 799 6,009
28 30
Sirva Inc.
1,400,000
est
-
34 31
Southeastern Freight Lines
1,256,333 - 8,252 2,847 7,886
36 32
Averitt Express
1,207,587 - 8,550 4,488 14,495
32 33
Anderson Trucking Service
1,274,709 - 2,369 2,706 7,209
27 34
Evans Delivery
1,426,000 - 536 7,500
37 35
Crete Carrier Corp.
1,171,000
est
- 6,500
22 36
Purolator
1,646,117 - 10,882 462 1,649
31 37
Day & Ross
1,319,498 - 8,000 4,200 8,600
38 38
Quality Carriers
1,090,684
est
-
39 39
Lynden
960,000 - 2,595 877 2,428
35 40
Ruan
1,222,782 - 5,500 3,413 9,468
41 41
KLLM Transport Services
917,000 - 3,400 6,300
49 42
Atlas World Group
806,000 8,000 637 994 3,803
46 43
Covenant Logistics Group
838,561 -42,718 5,550 2,579 5,114
43 44
Central Transport International
871,000
est
- 3,580 8,675
48 45
Pitt Ohio Transportation Group
828,407 - 5,697 2,028 5,871
42 46
Marten Transport
874,374 69,500 4,140 3,331 5,395
45 47
Cardinal Logistics
849,000 - 4,250 3,012 8,007
40 48
PS Logistics
957,000 - 3,036 3,500 5,900
58 49
Stevens Transport
688,000 92,460 2,750 1,950 3,290
53 50
AAA Cooper Transportation
702,000 - 4,500 2,679 7,474
52 51
United Road Services
713,000
est
- 1,837 2,470 2,591
51 52
Western Express
721,500 - 3,416 3,000 7,900
55 53
Dayton Freight Lines
669,000 83,000 4,949 1,761 4,695
60 54
Mullen Group
601,288 - 3,539 2,042 5,079
54 55
Bennett International Group
693,196 - 1,031 3,285 2,186
57 56
Bison Transport
642,930 - 3,676 2,137 5,823
47 57
OnTrac Inc.
832,000
est
-
61 58
Trimac Transportation
600,000 - 3,100 2,500 2,900
61 59
Suddath
600,000
est
- 2,200
56 60
Heartland Express
645,262 70,806 3,780 2,630 8,000
66 62
Hirschbach Motor Lines
532,531 - 1,282 1,786 3,415
70 63
Mercer Transportation Co.
495,272 - 266 2,234 2,234
59 64
Canada Cartage System
628,127 - 4,332 2,880 2,700
63 65
Cowan Systems
575,872 - 2,406 2,322 7,022
67 66
Two Men and a Truck Movers
524,929
est
- 11,396
65 67
USA Truck (DB Schenker)
551,138 4,746 2,032 2,065 6,263
71 68
P.A.M. Transport
486,825 17,827 2,653 2,013 6,944
68 69
Jack Cooper Holdings
507,000
est
- 3,753 1,424 1,434
69 70
A. Duie Pyle Inc.
504,000 - 3,341 1,347 2,456
50 71
LaserShip Inc./OnTrac Inc.
725,000
est
-
74 72
TMC Transportation
450,000
est
-
73 73
Roehl Transport
450,302
est
- 2,702 2,040 5,481
80 74
Dart Transit Co.
377,600
est
-
44 75
10 Roads Express
851,957
est
- 3,500 5,000
79 76
Maverick USA
389,182
est
- 2,125 1,582 2,582
78 78
Mesilla Valley Transportation
399,317 - 1,970 2,015 5,800
86 79
Koch Cos.
328,936 3,028 1,045 973 5,652
72 80
IMC Cos.
450,577 - 2,244
85 81
Red Classic
332,458 - 1,296 655 3,362
84 83
John Christner Trucking
338,873 - 207 839 1,244
82 84
Challenger Motor Freight
345,000 - 1,220 1,582 3,375
76 85
Foodliner/Quest Liner
416,796 - 1,564 1,569 3,030
88 86
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics
314,000
est
- 2,200 1,700 350
92 87
Melton Truck Lines
292,125 - 1,614 1,390 2,428
77 88
Fastfrate Group
400,000 - 2,800 1,152 1,622
81 89
ContainerPort Group
350,000 - 408
90 90
Dupré Logistics
294,058 6,464 1,125 770 1,700
89 91
TransAm Trucking
297,000
est
-
64 92
Heniff Transportation Systems
562,000
est
- 2,157 7,147
95 93
Trans-System Inc.
274,000 - 1,036 1,004 1,833
93 94
Hansen & Adkins Auto Transport
283,137
est
6,622 955 1,224 945
87 96
Quantix Supply Chain Solutions
324,922 -25,231 1,686 1,180 2,521
99 98
PGT Trucking
253,727 - 695 1,138 1,825
96 99
Groendyke Transport
273,125
est
-
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