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How much freight do the top 470 shippers in the U.S. control?

by Andrew Cox
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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How much freight do the top 470 shippers in the U.S. control?

In a recent whitepaper (“How much freight do the top 100 shippers in the U.S. Control?”; March 6), we examined how much freight the top 100 shippers account for in the U.S. This whitepaper is a follow-on to that report, and we would suggest reading it first.

We then assumed that the top 100 shippers in the U.S. spend 5% of their revenue on transportation. Next, we used the chart below from Goldman Sachs and SJ Consulting that breaks down the North American logistics market in 2018. As one can see, the $743 billion trucking market, including both for-hire and private fleets, accounted for 62% of total transportation spend. Therefore, we assumed that, of the 5% of revenue that top 100 shippers spend on transportation, 62% was spent on trucking. When one runs through those assumptions, the bottom line is that the top 100 shippers in the U.S. account for 23% of total trucking spend.

Instead, after some consideration, we thought it would be interesting to reexamine some of our key assumptions and see how the end results differed, if at all. Namely, we used the Fortune 1000 (as opposed to the Fortune 500) and questioned our assumption that all Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) sectors that regularly move freight spend 5% of their revenue on transportation.

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Andrew Cox

Andrew is research analyst on the Freight Intel Group and a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he graduated magna cum laude. Andrew started as an intern with FreightWaves in October 2018 and joined full-time upon graduation. He co-hosts the freight finance podcast "Great Quarter, Guys" on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. EST.

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