Western Railroad Discussion > Truckload Operating Results for 2017

Listed below is a thumbnail sketch of the operating results of the major truckload carriers for 2017.

COVENANT TRANSPORT
REVENUE
2017 $705million
2016 670.7 million
INCOME
2017 $55.4 million
2016 16.8 million

HEARTLAND EXPRESS
REVENUE
2017 $607.3
2016 612.9
INCOME
2017 $75.2 million
2016 56.4

J B HUNT
REVENUE
2017 $7.2 billion
2016 6.6 billion
INCOME
2017 $ 385.3 million
2016 112.3 million

KNIGHT-SWIFT
REVENUE
2017 $2.43 billion
2016 1.03 billion
INCOME
2017 $ 200 million
2016 148.5 million

MARTEN TRANSPORTATION
REVENUE
2017 $ 698.1 million
2016 671.1 million
INCOME
2017 $90.3 million
2016 33.5 million

WERNER
REVENUE
2017 $2.11 billion
2016 2.0 billion
INCOME
2017 $202.9 million
2016 79.1 million

SCHNEIDER
REVENUE
2017 $ 4.32 billion
2016 4.05 billion
INCOME
2017 $ 389.9 MILLION
2016 156.9 MILLION

Dale Smith

Not hard to see who's "king of the hill" here, and we should know who's the biggest rail user.

The Heartland Express numbers were disappointing to me because that's a more or less local firm, based
in North Liberty (Iowa City area), IA. AFAIK they don't use rail.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/18 08:00 by ntharalson.

Interesting how the players keep evolving, merging, acquiring, etc. Logistics Management's Top 50 providers (out last December) showed:

TL, from largest on down, from 1 through 10:

Swift, Schneider, JB Hunt, Landstar, Prime, Werner, US Express Enterprises, CRST, Crete, CR England.

LTL, from largest on down, 1 through 10:

FedEx, XPO, Old Dominion, YRC, UPS, Estes, ABF, YRC Regional, R+L, Saia.

I would provide the link but think you need to be a subscriber so don't want to violate any copyright issues. But interesting statistics nonetheless. Most are intermodal users, or have been. We'll see as driver-ELD/equipment shortages and railroad service issues all play out.

Bruce

Soon we will see Amazon Trucking.