J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT)

Trucking and intermodal carrier, no unions. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 13 of the 57 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 31,750 employees, 21,554 of them company drivers, by segment and by kind of work (a), all in trucking, so one pattern carries the whole workforce.

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: 18% 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

31,750 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country.

The filing: “We put forth our best effort to support initiatives that benefit our people and reflect our company values of integrity, respect, innovation, safety, and excellence. 5 As of December 31, 2025, we had 31,750 employees, which consisted of 21,554 company drivers, 8,481 office personnel, 1,374 maintenance technicians, and 341 delivery and material assistants.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 31,750 employees: 21,554 company drivers, 8,481 office personnel, 1,374 maintenance technicians and 341 delivery and material assistants; 2,350 independent contractors drive their own tractors and are not counted; no employees represented by unions.

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)18% now, 23% by 2028
• Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (KNX, 37,100 employees)18% now, 23% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its risk factors: AI-powered phishing among cyber attacks, and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, including its own efforts to incorporate it, as amplifying cyber, legal and operational risks.

• “Increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks such as ransomware and AI-powered phishing scams could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of these systems, disrupt network and terminal operations, delay freight movements, or result in data loss or exfiltration.”
• “A significant disruption, failure or security breach in our information technology systems could have a material adverse effect on our business, which could include operational disruptions, loss of confidential information, external reporting delays or errors, legal claims, or damage to our business reputation. 11 An inability to develop, adopt, and integrate new or enhanced technologies, inclu...”
• “The rapid evolution and adoption of artificial intelligence(AI) and any efforts we may make to incorporate it into our business may amplify cyber, legal, and operational risks.”
• “AI adoption may introduce or amplify risks, including inaccurate or biased outputs that are difficult to detect, governance and model-risk challenges, privacy and intellectual property concerns, and evolving legal disclosure obligations.”
• “AI can also increase cybersecurity exposure as threat actors leverage AI to enhance social-engineering and intrusion techniques.”

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 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 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.

Limits of this reading

• Independent contractors (2,350) are left out under rule 8.
• One pattern: the segment counts (a) place 83% of employees in the driving segments and the rest in shared office and maintenance roles.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-005294, 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.