Once upon a time, carriers could be easily categorized by length of haul or by amount of freight moved in the trailers. Now, however, it is impossible to neatly place companies into these broad groups. Carriers no longer limit themselves to regional or long haul, full truckload or less-than-truckload.
Mergers, acquisitions and the desire to diversify their businesses now present a carrier landscape in which a company that was once primarily a truckload carrier is now a broker, a marketplace, a...