2009 Top 100 For-Hire
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A Word From the Publisher rucking shifted into While many companies are reverse in 2008. Facing hunkering down and waiting for the worse economic an economic turnaround, others downturn in decades, are using the slowdown to motor carriers moved to expand their capabilities. Treduce freight hauling capacity more Landstar System, with two than any time since the industry was recent acquisitions, continued its deregulated in 1980, based on push to become a more com- Transport Topics’ annual review of the plete provider of transportation Top 100 For-Hire Carriers. and logistics services. While many believe that trucking Regional truckload carrier will recover quickly once the recession Knight Transportation dipped a ends, it’s not at all clear when that will toe into the drayage business at happen or how strong the recovery Howard S. Abramson the Port of Los Angeles and Port will be for manufacturing, construc- of Long Beach and launched a tion and retail distribution – business sectors that driver training school. generate the most demand for trucking services. Dart Transit expanded its business into Mexico. A variety of factors, ranging from the inexorable Companies with little or no debt are in especially aging of truck drivers to rising prices for new trac- good positions to ride out the downturn. tors, could make it difficult for many trucking firms Lana Batts, a consultant for Transport Capital to quickly add new capacity, some industry observers Partners and a former president of the Truckload have said. Carriers Association offered this perspective. While the composition of the 2009 Top 100 For- “I believe two things are certain,” she said. “The Hire Carriers list isn’t much different than a year ago strong will get stronger and the big will get bigger. – there were no major closures among the Top 100 – There will be prosperity for those carriers who are there is a sense that this year will be remembered as left standing. The real question is: Who is going to be a turning point for many companies. standing?” YRC Worldwide, for example, which put together The sharp slide in auto sales and the restructuring the nation’s largest less-than-truckload freight carrier of U.S. automakers hasn’t discouraged Jeff Hurley, group over the past five years and even extended its who heads up automotive operations for CEVA business into China, reversed course and moved to Logistics. downsize both its national and regional freight net- Hurley said he sees opportunities for new business works. The company also struck a deal with the coming from foreign-owned plants being built in Teamsters union to cut wages in return for a 10% mostly Southern states and from the use of “shared stake in the business. assets,” such as when multiple manufacturers use the J.B. Hunt Transport Services, a name that personi- same warehouse or crossdock facility. fied the nonstop growth of over-the-road truckload “When things are not as robust, there is an oppor- services in the 1980s and early 1990’s trimmed its tunity to insert new ideas,” Hurley said. tractor count by more than 1,200 power units in 2008 and now derives more than 80% of its revenue from intermodal and dedicated contract carriage. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES The 2009 TRANSPORT TOPICS Top 100 is a project of Transport Topics Publishing Group and features data com- piled from annual reports of publicly owned companies and directly from management of privately owned firms. In some cases, revenue estimates were used to determine sector rankings. Senior Features Writer Daniel P. Bearth coordinated the project with assistance from Karen Villar. Cover design is by George Dively, director of art and production. The design is by Patrick Donlon, assistant director of art and production. Page 3 RANK RANK REVENUE % NET INCOME % OPERATING UNITS 2008 2007 COMPANY (000) CHANGE (000) CHANGE EMPLOYEES EQUIPMENT (DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES) 1 UPS Inc. 51,486,000 3.6 3,003,000 686.1 426,000 18,470 company tractors UPS Package Operations (air and ground package delivery) 1 Atlanta 49,692,000 382,000 425,300 73,222 company package UPS Supply Chain Solutions (transportation management, air, ocean, rail NYSE: UPS cars, vans, straight trucks and ground freight forwarding, customs brokerage, supply chain design, D. Scott Davis, Chairman and motorcycles contract carriage, service parts distribution and repair, returns manage- and CEO 21,246 trailers ment, assembly and distribution, vehicle routing, dispatch and tracking David Abney, Chief 37,000 air cargo containers systems) Operating Officer 263 aircraft UPS Freight (regional and interregional LTL, truckload, dedicated contract carriage, refrigerated intermodal) www.ups.com UPS Capital Corp. (equipment leasing, trade finance, freight payment and insurance) UPS Mail Innovations (mail processing) Mail Boxes Etc./The UPS Store (franchiser of retail shipping, postal and business service stores) UPS Professional Services (management consulting) UPS Air Cargo (air freight) 2 FedEx Corp.1 35,497,000 -6.5 98,000 -91.3 248,000 15,000 company tractors FedEx Express (air and ground package and freight delivery) 22,000 owner-operator 2 Memphis, Tenn. 37,953,000 1,125,000 254,000 FedEx Ground (commercial and residential ground package delivery) tractors, straight trucks and NYSE: FDX FedEx Freight (regional and national LTL) vans 43,000 company Frederick Smith, Chairman FedEx Truckload Brokerage (freight brokerage) straight trucks and vans and CEO FedEx Custom Critical (air and ground expedited, vehicle hauling) 670 aircraft FedEx Trade Networks (air and ocean freight forwarding, customs bro- www.fedex.com kerage) FedEx Office (copying, printing, packing, Internet, sign and banner serv- ices) FedEx Global Supply Chain Services (supply chain consulting, trans- portation management, order fulfillment, warehousing and distribution, inventory management) FedEx Services (sales and marketing, information technology support) 3 DHL USA2 14,994,000 4.7 NA NA NA 1,546 company tractors DHL Express (international air and ground package delivery) 2,683 straight trucks and 3 Plantation, Fla. 14,322,000 NA NA DHL Global Forwarding (air and ocean freight forwarding) vans 750 trailers (Deutsche Post DHL) DHL Supply Chain (supply chain consulting, transportation management, Ken Allen, Global CEO warehousing and distribution, assembly and packaging, returns manage- John Gilbert, CEO, DHL ment, order fulfillment, commercial and residential delivery, service parts Supply Chain Americas distribution) Exel Transportation Services (intermodal, freight brokerage) www.dhl-usa.com 4 YRC Worldwide3 8,940,401 -7.1 (974,392) NA 55,000 25,262 company tractors YRC Inc. (national and international LTL and TL, expedited, cross-border and straight trucks 4 Overland Park, Kan. 9,621,316 (638,381) 63,000 services, includes operations of Yellow Transportation and Roadway 82,477 trailers Nasdaq: YRCW merged in 2009) William Zollars, Chairman YRC Reimer (regional and interregional LTL, cross-border services) and CEO New Penn Motor Express, Holland, Reddaway (regional and interregion- al LTL and TL, expedited, cross-border services) www.yrcw.com YRC Glen Moore (dry van TL) YRC Logistics (transportation management, warehousing and distribu- tion, air and ocean freight forwarding, freight brokerage, LTL freight serv- ice in China) YRC Worldwide Technologies (information technology) 1 FedEx Corp. revenue and net income are for 12 months ended May 31, 2009, and May 31, 2008. 2 DHL USA revenue includes North, South and Central America. 3 YRC Worldwide equipment excludes USF Glen Moore. All numbers for 2007 are printed in blue. 4 — 2009 TRANSPORT TOPICS TOP 100 FOR-HIRE CARRIERS This Transport Topics 100 PDF is sponsored by R. L. Polk & Co. and Innovative Computing Corporation RANK RANK REVENUE % NET INCOME % OPERATING UNITS 2008 2007 COMPANY (000) CHANGE (000) CHANGE EMPLOYEES EQUIPMENT (DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES) 5 Ryder System 6,203,743 -5.5 199,881 -21.3 24,100 51,900 company tractors Ryder Fleet Management Solutions (equipment leasing and rental, contract mainte- 5 Miami 6,565,995 253,861 23,500 68,300 company straight nance, emergency roadside assistance, used truck sales — includes assets of Gordon NYSE: R trucks Truck Leasing and Edart Leasing, acquired in August 2008 and February 2009, respec- Gregory Swienton, Chairman and vans tively) and CEO 39,900 trailers Ryder Supply Chain Solutions (supply chain consulting, transportation manage- ment, warehousing and distribution, freight brokerage, trade services — includes www.ryder.com assets of Transpacific Container Terminal Ltd. in Canada and CRSA Logistics Ltd. in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China, acquired in December 2008) Ryder Dedicated Contract Carriage (dedicated contract carriage) 6 Con-way Inc. 5,036,817 14.8 66,961 -54.1 26,600 11,311 company tractors Con-way Freight (regional and interregional LTL) 6 San Mateo, Calif. 4,387,363 145,952 27,100 111 owner-operators Con-way Truckload (dry van truckload — includes operations of Contract Freighter NYSE: CNW tractors Inc. acquired in August 2007) Douglas Stotlar, CEO 103 straight trucks Con-way Multimodal (freight brokerage, intermodal — established in August 2008) 34,200 trailers Menlo Worldwide Logistics (supply chain consulting, transportation management, www.con-way.com dedicated contract carriage, warehousing and distribution, freight brokerage) Road Systems (trailer manufacturing) 7 Penske Truck Leasing 4,000,000 -2.4 NA NA 19,000 62,600 company tractors Penske Truck Leasing Co. (equipment leasing and rental, contract maintenance, 7 Co. 4,100,000 NA 20,000 94,750 straight trucks used truck sales) Reading, Pa. 56,400 trailers Penske Logistics (supply chain consulting, transportation management, dedicated (Penske Corp., Penske contract carriage, warehousing and distribution, air and ocean freight forwarding) Automotive Group and General Electric Co.) Roger Penske, Chairman Brian Hard, President, Penske Truck Leasing Vince Hartnett, President, Penske Logistics www.GoPenske.com 8 J.B. Hunt Transport 3,731,943 6.9 200,593 -5.9 14,667 9,067 company tractors J.B.