Knight Transportation, Inc is a truckload carrier offering dry van, refrigerated, and brokerage services to customers through a network of service centers located throughout the United States. The principal types of freight the company transports includes consumer staples, retail, paper products, packaging/plastics, manufacturing, and import/export commodities. The company’s fleet consists primarily of over-the-road Volvo 670s and large sleeper long-nose 379 and 387 Peterbilt tractors.
Changed name to Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. from Knight Transportation Inc., 1/1/2020.
U.S. trucking companies Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation said they have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that gives the combined company an enterprise value of $6 billion.
The company will be named Knight-Swift Transportation and have $5 billion in annual revenues. It will retain its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where both companies are currently based, with some 23,000 tractors, 77,000 trailers, and 28,000 employees.