Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL)
LTL trucking, drivers and dock workers. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 34 of the 85 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
20,591
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%
A trucking company whose filing counts its full-time employees by role, so one truck transportation pattern carries all of them.
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
20,591 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). No count by country is stated; the filing describes a motor carrier regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The filing: “Department of Energy (the "DOE") that reset each week and are one of many components that we use to determine the overall price for our transportation services. 4 Human Capital Employee Profile As of December 31, 2025, we employed 20,591 active full-time employees, none of which were represented under a collective bargaining agreement.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Truck Transportation | 100% | By (a): the filing counts its 20,591 full-time employees by role, 10,320 drivers, 3,465 platform workers, 666 fleet technicians and 6,140 in sales, administrative and other roles, all the work of a less-than-truckload carrier that BLS counts in truck transportation; the sales and administrative count includes service center staff and is not a corporate count (rule 6). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 20,591 active full-time employees, none represented under a collective bargaining agreement: 10,320 drivers (5,305 linehaul and 5,015 pickup and delivery), 3,465 platform, 666 fleet technicians, 6,140 sales, administrative and other; 3,439 active drivers came through the company's own driver training program; over 26% of drivers have a million safe miles or more.
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
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it continually seeks to upgrade its technology including cloud-based technology and AI, names AI and machine learning among the technologies that make protective measures harder to anticipate, and says AI and other emerging technologies could alter service delivery and operations across its industry.
- “We continually seek to upgrade and enhance our technological capabilities, including our use of cloud-based technology and artificial intelligence ("AI").”
- “The rapid ongoing evolution and increased adoption of emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning may make it more difficult to anticipate and implement protective measures to recognize, detect, and prevent the occurrence of any of these events.”
- “AI and other emerging technologies have the potential to alter the delivery of services and business operations across our industry.”
- “We currently incorporate AI solutions into our business, and these applications may become more important over time.”
- “If the content, analyses, or recommendations that AI applications assist in producing are or are alleged to be deficient, inaccurate or biased or to violate intellectual property rights of third parties, our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows may be adversely affected.”
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 20247median 4
- Fiscal 20257median 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 | 20,591 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 21,895 | 2025-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 22,902 | 2024-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 23,471 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 23,663 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 19,779 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 20,105 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 21,279 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 19,183 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 17,543 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 17,931 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 16,443 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 14,073 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 13,016 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 12,022 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 11,179 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 9,608 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 10,864 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 11,573 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 10,762 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 9,736 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 8,497 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7,513 | 2004-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 6,895 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 6,106 | 2002-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 5,909 | 2001-03-16 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 5,559 | 2000-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 5,287 | 1999-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 4,486 | 1998-03-11 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 3,948 | 1997-03-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The count is of active full-time employees; no part-time count is stated.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-067161, 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 Old Dominion Freight Line, 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 Old Dominion Freight Line, 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 Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. employ?
- 20,591 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Old Dominion Freight Line, 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 Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 7 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 7 and 7 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 19, 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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