dollars and had operations across the United States, Canada and Mexico, although their size decreased following the 2008 recession.Īlso in 1990, four cousins employed by Swift - two sets of brothers who shared the surname Knight – left to found their own freight trucking company, Knight Transportation. By 2009, Swift reported revenue of 2.5 billion U.S. At this time Swift Transportation became a publicly listed company, and used the money raised to expand their operations by purchasing rival companies. The company grew over the following decades, until by 1990 it was a 125 million U.S. Knight-Swift can trace its origins back to 1966, when Swift Transportation was founded to transport steel and cotton between Los Angeles and Phoenix.
