Top 25 Truckload Companies

The rapid development of safety-related technology for trucks will speed autonomous trucking, Ryder's chief technology officer says.

Narrowing gap between spot and contract truckload rates heightens expectations for broader price hikes.

As larger carriers try to limit capacity to improve their pricing power, smaller companies may be rushing to fill the gap.

A mandate many truckload carriers and drivers dread could bring more freight to less-than-truckload competitors, Old Dominion's David Congdon says.

Rattled by the prospect of higher truck rates, shippers are looking at new negotiating strategies to protect savings.

Two of the largest US truckload carriers report rising contract rates. As pressure on pricing slowly builds, shippers want to talk.

Speakers at the SMC3 Jump Start 2017 conference expect truckload and LTL rates to move up, modestly, in 2017.

Landstar's new logistics center in Laredo will handle more than truckload freight as the company expands its cross-border business.

Shippers show they are willing to pay more for dedicated capacity, and J.B. Hunt is happy to oblige.

The prospect of a stronger US economy later in the year has many truck shippers advancing contract talks and freight bids to the first quarter, while carriers "hedge their bets."

Trucking companies that lease equipment to drivers and treat them as owner-operators need to review their practices in light of a decision that classified drivers who leased equipment from Swift Transportation as employees.

Schneider National and heavy-haul flatbed specialist Daseke Inc. plan to go public in 2017, seeking new routes to financing.

As the Obama administration winds down, federal regulators are rolling out some long-awaited trucking safety rules, while Congress legislates driver hours of service. Some groups would like president-elect Trump to block pending rules.

Truck driver pay is beginning to rise as truckload freight demand picks up.

A stronger-than-expected third quarter for the US economy bolstered trucking employment, but trucking hiring is still knocking against a ceiling.

Higher spot-market truck rates and volumes are pushing up the DAT Freight Index at a point in the year when it traditionally would fall.

The much-rumored truckload capacity crunch hasn't been canceled but simply postponed for a year or less by low economic growth, speakers at the 2016 JOC Inland Distribution Conference said.

US shippers surveyed by the JOC, NASSTRAC, and Truckstop.com expect slightly higher freight volumes over the next six months, but mostly flat rates — except truckload rates.

Truckload companies USA Truck and Celadon Group are not waiting for a recovery in the truckload market to materialize and pull them out of the red, instead working to get into the black with a stronger focus on their asset-light brokerage businesses.

Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."

When freight demand is low and rates are hard to maintain, who wants to buy a used truck? That's a problem truckload carriers face as they try to reduce their capacity to bolster pricing.

The largest US truckload carrier cut more than 1,600 tractors from its overal fleet in the past year, but added 130 trucks to its dedicated business, which increased revenue and profit.

Even when volumes rise, lower revenue shows impact of reduced rates and fuel surcharges at publicly owned carriers.

Quarterly net profit dropped at the third-largest trucking operator for the first time since early 2014, thanks to lower truckload and intermodal rates. Dedicated is an exception.

Schneider National, family-owned since 1935, plans a financial lane change in 2017.

Truckload rates have been declining year-over-year for six months, according to one measure, as US shippers hobbled by a slow economy demand transportation savings.

Seasonal adjustments may account, in part, for an unusually strong gain in truck tonnage in "difficult-to-read" August.

Shipments on the truckload spot market increased year-over-year for the first time since December 2014 in August.

Acquiring California-based Gardner Trucking will add more than $400 million to CRST's annual revenue while adding new services and markets.

Jerry Moyes, who built Swift Transportation into the largest US truckload carrier, will retire at the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

US trucking companies kept their hiring engines firing in August.

The long-anticipated, much-discussed truck driver shortage could surface again as a major problem as early as next year.

The controversial mandate requiring electronic logging devices in U.S. trucks by the end of next year will reappear before a federal court next month, jeopardizing the fate of the rule itself, and the so-called “capacity crunch” it was expected to generate.

In its first acquisition in 78 years, Kottke Trucking expanded its business 60 percent, gaining drivers, freight, scale and density.

Does an uptick in trucking jobs indicate the trucking market is stabilizing?

Small carriers may have gained more revenue than their larger counterparts last year, reversing a recent trend. Can they do it again in 2016?

Strong hiring may have led to a new peak in trucking's hiring cycle. Is it downhill from here?

Despite an uptick in volume in July, trucking executives see a long road ahead before truckload rates rise.

The fifth-largest U.S. truckload carrier is cutting some shippers loose as they seek deep rate cuts in a soft market.

Swift Transportation's efforts to control capacity weren't enough to stave off a decline in earnings.