Transport Topics’ annual ranking of the largest for-hire carriers in the United States and Canada, which began as a modest addition to a Special Report on Finance in the Aug. 21, 1989 edition, took on a new look as the Transport Topics 100 in 1999 and became the Top 100 a few years later.
Whatever they are called, the list has always featured insightful reporting by Transport Topics’ Senior Features Writer Daniel P. Bearth on the state of the trucking business, as reflected in this July 23, 2001 edition.