Werner Enterprises, Inc. (WERN)

Truckload carrier, 8,677 drivers of 12,031. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 79 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A truckload carrier whose filing counts 12,031 associates by kind with 8,677 drivers, so the whole workforce is read at truck transportation with the counts recorded.

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

12,031 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). Stated in words: most associates are based in the U.S., with about 1% in Mexico and Canada.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed 8,677 drivers; 638 mechanics and maintenance associates for the trucking operation; 1,465 office associates for the trucking operation; and 1,251 associates for Werner Logistics, international, driving schools and other non-trucking operations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 12,031 associates as of December 31, 2025: 8,677 drivers (72%), 638 mechanics and maintenance associates, 1,465 office associates in trucking, 1,251 in Werner Logistics, international, driving schools and other non-trucking operations; about 1% based in Mexico and Canada; no U.S. or Canadian associates represented by a collective bargaining unit; most drivers paid per mile.

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

5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it uses artificial intelligence among its cybersecurity mitigations, that attackers use AI too, and that as it implements AI solutions it requires vendors to indemnify for them and to take measures against hallucinations and bias.

• “Our mitigation of these risks includes, without limitation, using certain redundant computer hardware, tools and protocols to monitor and respond to threats, the work of a dedicated internal cybersecurity team, incident and crisis response plans, enterprise-wide information security policies and trainings, and the use of artificial intelligence.”
• “However, the security risks associated with information technology systems have increased in recent years because of the evolving sophistication, activities and methods of cyber attackers, including the use of artificial intelligence.”
• “As we implement artificial intelligence solutions, we limit liability by ensuring that vendors' indemnity obligations extend to artificial intelligence solutions and require such vendors to undertake commercially reasonable measures to prevent hallucinations and bias.”
• “In addition, we take a proactive approach to understand how our data will be used by the artificial intelligence solution to prevent and mitigate competitive concerns.”
• “We strive to align with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity maturity framework and leverage a range of tools, including artificial intelligence, software programs, logs, and data analyses, to detect anomalous activity and identify risks across our systems.”

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 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20243median 4
• Fiscal 20255median 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

• The collector's 8,677 is the driver count; the filing's four parts sum to 12,031 (rule 2).
• The logistics, international and driving school associates stay in the trucking pattern by the site's convention for carriers with brokerage arms.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000793074-26-000071, 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.