USA Truck (brokerage division)

USA Truck was founded in 1983 in Van Buren, Arkansas, as a truckload carrier serving the Mid-South and national markets. Over the following decades, it built a reputation as a reliable dry van carrier with strong regional roots in the South Central US and became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ. USA Truck's brokerage division grew alongside the asset operation as a way to extend capacity coverage and serve shipper freight needs beyond what the company's own fleet could handle, particularly for flatbed and overflow dry van freight.

In 2022, Knight-Swift Transportation — one of the largest truckload carriers in North America — acquired USA Truck for approximately $808 million. The acquisition brought USA Truck's fleet, brokerage operations, and South Central US customer relationships under the Knight-Swift umbrella. The USA Truck brand remains in use post-acquisition, particularly among shippers and carriers in the Mid-South who have long-standing relationships with the company under that name. Knight-Swift's backing provides significantly greater financial resources and carrier network scale than USA Truck had as an independent company.

For shippers, USA Truck's brokerage division today operates as part of Knight-Swift's logistics services portfolio, generating an estimated $55 million in annual gross brokerage revenue. The brokerage focuses on dry van truckload and flatbed, with South Central US lanes as a particular strength. Shippers that historically worked with USA Truck account teams may now engage through Knight-Swift's organization, though the USA Truck identity continues to appear in many shipper contexts. Those seeking LTL, reefer, intermodal, or cross-border services should look to other providers.