Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. (CVLG)
Truckload carrier, 2,900 drivers and 1,800 non-drivers. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 105 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
4,700
Leading staffing pattern
Truck Transportation
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing counts 2,900 drivers and 1,800 non-driver personnel and keeps 110 contractor drivers apart, so the carrier is read whole with the driver share counted.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 9% people work and 68% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The filing describes truckload, dedicated and warehousing operations in the United States and no operations abroad (recorded as 1, flagged).
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 2,900 drivers and approximately 1,800 non-driver personnel.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Truck Transportation | 100% | The filing counts 2,900 drivers (a) and 1,800 non-driver personnel in dispatch, brokerage, warehousing and offices that are not counted apart, so the carrier is read whole at truck transportation with its brokerage and warehousing inside, flagged. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,900 drivers and 1,800 non-driver personnel; 110 independent contractor drivers with their own tractors, not counted; 2,315 tractors and 6,611 trailers; no collective bargaining agreement.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Truck Transportation, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- FedEx Freight Holding Company, Inc. (FDXF, 40,000 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (KNX, 37,100 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- XPO Logistics, Inc. (XPO, 37,000 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT, 31,750 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL, 20,591 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Schneider National, Inc. (SNDR, 19,000 employees)20% now, 27% by 2028
- Saia, Inc. (SAIA, 14,500 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- ArcBest Corp (ARCB, 14,000 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says AI and other emerging technologies may become significant to its brokerage, dispatch, routing and delivery operations, and names errors and cyber risks from AI.
- “Cybersecurity." In addition, the adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") and other emerging technologies may become significant to operating results in the future, including in areas such as brokerage, dispatch, routing, pickup, and delivery appointments, and other areas where automation is possible.”
- “While AI and other technologies may offer substantial benefits, they may also introduce additional risk, including those relating to errors or inaccuracies in work product developed through the use of AI and privacy, intellectual property, and legal and regulatory risks.”
- “Furthermore, the use of AI by bad actors may make cyberattacks more difficult to anticipate or detect, and we may be unable to implement adequate preventive or curative measures in the case of such an attack.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4,700 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,100 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,900 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 3,007 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 3,000 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,500 | 2021-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,900 | 2020-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,100 | 2019-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 3,500 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,600 | 2017-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,600 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,600 | 2015-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,385 | 2014-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 4,289 | 2013-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 4,022 | 2012-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 3,950 | 2011-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 4,065 | 2010-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 4,344 | 2009-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,144 | 2008-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,817 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 4,655 | 2006-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 4,936 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 5,138 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 4,894 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | not read | 2002-04-01 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 5,750 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | not read | 2000-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | not read | 1999-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | not read | 1998-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | not read | 1997-02-12 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector took the driver count alone; rule 2 sums the 2,900 drivers and 1,800 non-driver personnel to 4,700.
- The 110 independent contractor drivers are not counted (rule 8).
- The warehousing and managed freight work inside the non-driver count is not counted apart, so the carrier is read whole.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes U.S. operations only; it states no count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-006086, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. employ?
- 4,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Truck Transportation; by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 9% people work and 68% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 2 and 3 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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