3PL Companies in USA: an overview
Armstrong & Associates, a supply chain research firm, estimates that US third-party logistics (3PL) providers earned $323.4 billion in gross revenue in 2025, up 5.0% on the year. Domestic transportation management, which includes freight brokerage, was the largest segment at $128.3 billion, followed by international transportation management at $85.9 billion, value-added warehousing and distribution at $72.7 billion, and dedicated contract carriage at $32.0 billion. The firm puts total US logistics costs at 8.3% of GDP in 2025 and global 3PL revenue at about $1.3 trillion.
Armstrong's 2026 ranking of US-based 3PLs by 2025 gross logistics revenue is led by Amazon's third-party seller services at $172.2 billion. C.H. Robinson ranks second at $14.8 billion, followed by GXO Logistics at $13.2 billion, J.B. Hunt at $11.3 billion and Expeditors at $11.1 billion. Total Quality Logistics, a privately held freight broker founded in Cincinnati in 1997, is ninth at $7.4 billion. RXO, Lineage, Penske Logistics, Echo Global Logistics, Hub Group, NFI and GEODIS's North American business also rank in the top 25.
The companies on this list follow different models. Freight brokers such as C.H. Robinson, TQL, RXO, Echo and Arrive Logistics arrange truckloads with outside carriers. Contract logistics firms such as GXO, Ryder, Penske Logistics, GEODIS, NFI and Kenco run warehouses and dedicated fleets for shippers. Expeditors and Flexport handle international freight forwarding, ShipBob and Radial fulfil ecommerce orders, and Lineage runs temperature-controlled warehouses. GXO and RXO were both separated from XPO, and in October 2026 C.H. Robinson agreed to buy RXO in a deal expected to close in the first half of 2027.