Atlanta-based UPS leads list of top 50 logistics companies
United Parcel Service, based here in Atlanta, is number one logistics company in the United States, according to industry trade magazine Transport Topics. A logistics company arranges transportation for shippers. As a trucking accident trial attorney, I often find it necessary to decipher the varying roles of an array of companies, including logistics companies.
According to Transport Topics, the top 50 logistics companies in the United States include:
1. UPS Supply Chain Solutions
2. DHL Exel Supply Chain
3. J. B. Hunt Transport Services
4. Ceva Logistics
5. Schenker Inc.
6. Schneider National Inc.
7. Caterpillar Logistics Services
8. Ryder Systems
9. Pacer International
10. APL Logistics
11. C.H. Robinson Worldwide
12. Greatwide Logistics Services
13. Swift Transportation Co.
14. Penske Logistics
15. Werner Enterprises
16. Ruan Transortation Management Systems
17. NFI Interactive Logistics
18. AmeriCold Logistics
19. UTi Worldwide
20. Expeditors International of Washington
21. Kuehne + Nagel Contract Logistics
22. YRC Logistics
23. Ozburn-Hessey Logistics
24. Genco Supply Chain Solutions
25. Menlo Worldwide Logistics
26. TranForce Inc.
27. Jacobson Cos.
28. New Breed Logositics
29. Total Logistics Control
30. Cardinal Logistics Management
31. Kenco Logistic Services
32. U.S. Xpress Enterprises
33. Ingram Micro Inc.
34. Logistic Insight Corp.
35. 3PD Inc.
36. ATC Logistics & Electronics
37. England Logistics
38. Maersk Logistics
39. FedEx Corp.
40. Hub Group/Unyson Logistics
41. NYK Logistics
42. DSC Logistics
43. BDP International
44. Saddle Creek Corp.
45. Landstar System
46. Averitt Express
47. Kane Is Able Inc.
48. Livingston International Inc.
49. FMI International
50. TransGroup Worldwide Logstics
Kudos to my friend Michael Leizerman, an attorney in Toledo, Ohio, for bringing this to my attention through his excellent blog.
Ken Shigley is a trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia who has been listed as a "Super Lawyer" (Atlanta Magazine), among the "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine), and in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (Martindale), and is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He served as chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Litigation Institute, is on the National Advisory Board for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, and is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs for the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. Mr. Shigley has extensive experience representing parties in trucking and bus accidents, products liability, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, spinal cord injury, brain injury and burn injury cases. Currently he is Secretary of the 40,000 member State Bar of Georgia.This post is subject to our ethical disclaimer.
