Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (KNX)
Truckload carrier, 37,100 employees, 71% drivers. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 10 of the 47 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
37,100
Leading staffing pattern
Truck Transportation
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- 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 its full-time people by kind of work (a), drivers, technicians and terminal staff, all of it 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
37,100 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). About 1,600 driving associates are in Mexico; the filing states no U.S. count.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our full-time employee headcount was comprised of: Company driving associates (including driver trainees) 26,200, Technicians and other equipment maintenance personnel 1,600, Corporate and terminal leadership and support personnel 9,300, Total 37,100.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Truck Transportation | 100% | A truckload carrier whose filing counts 26,200 driving associates, 1,600 technicians and 9,300 corporate and terminal staff (a), all inside the one trucking pattern as BLS counts a carrier's people. |
What the filing says about the workforce: A full-time headcount of 37,100: 26,200 company driving associates including trainees, 1,600 technicians and maintenance personnel, 9,300 corporate and terminal leadership and support; about 1,600 Trans-Mex driving associates in Mexico represented by a union; independent contractors 7.9% of the fleet by tractor count.
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
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. Three sentences: AI's possible significance to brokerage, dispatch, routing and delivery appointments in the future, its risks of errors and inaccuracies, and AI used by bad actors in cyberattacks.
- “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 | 37,100 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 35,300 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 34,800 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 28,500 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 27,900 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 22,900 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 23,800 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 22,800 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 25,400 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 21,900 | 2017-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 21,000 | 2016-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 21,274 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 19,600 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 17,600 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 17,400 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 18,000 | 2011-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Independent contractors (7.9% of the fleet by tractor count) are not employees and are left out (rule 8).
- No U.S. count: about 1,600 driving associates are in Mexico.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001492691-26-000016, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings 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 Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. employ?
- 37,100 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings 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 Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings 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 2, 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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