Full truckload carriers

FTL carriers are those who haul large amounts of homogenous cargo, generally enough to fill an entire semi-trailer or container. Fleets in the FTL sector can be either privately owned, for example by a large manufacturer who needs to distribute their goods, or available on a for-hire basis. For-hire carriers generally offer additional logistics and transportation services, such as intermodal transport options. The largest U.S. FTL carrier by market vale was Old Dominion, who in 2019 reported total operating revenue across all operating segments of over four billion U.S. dollars. Other prominent FTL carriers are J.B. Hunt and Knight-Swift, who reported over 9.1 billion U.S. dollars and 4.7 billion U.S. dollars in revenue for 2019 respectively.

Less-than-truckload carriers

Conversely, LTL carriers transport shipments that are larger than parcels, but not large enough to fill a full trailer. Many LTL carriers will transport multiple shipments simultaneously to optimize their operations. The largest LTL carrier is FedEx Freight, who in 2019 reported over 7.4 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from LTL shipments. Following FedEx, the next largest carriers are Old Dominion, XPO Logistics and YRC Freight, all of which generated somewhere between three and four billion U.S. dollars in revenue in that year from LTL shipments.

Couriers

Finally, the courier sector is comprised of carriers of non-palletized and light goods, such parcels. Three main companies dominate this sector in the United States: the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS. Revenues in this sector appear higher than for FLT and LTL: FedEx Express reported just over 27.6 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from package delivery for their 2020 fiscal year, while UPS reported close to 46.5 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from domestic package delivery in 2019. However, not all this revenue can be directly attributed to the courier sector of the trucking industry.

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