Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.

Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. is an American freight transportation and third-party logistics provider headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its network serves the continental United States, Canada, and cross-border corridors into Mexico. The company combines asset-based trucking with freight brokerage, managed transportation, and outsourced warehouse operations to support customers with time-sensitive shipments and broader supply chain requirements.

Transportation and supply chain operations

The business operates across four core reporting segments: Expedited, Dedicated, Managed Freight, and Warehousing. Expedited transportation centers on two-person driver teams moving time-critical, high-value, and security-sensitive freight over long distances. Dedicated operations provide contracted fleet capacity through multi-year customer agreements, including solo-driver delivery, plant shuttles, and yard switching.

Managed Freight extends the company's capacity through non-asset brokerage, carrier sourcing, and Transportation Management System implementations. Warehousing operations cover outsourced distribution facilities, inventory management, cross-docking, and container transloading. Together, these activities allow customers to combine transportation capacity with coordination of freight movements and distribution operations.

Covenant serves retail and e-commerce, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, automotive, industrial manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and agriculture. Its transportation capabilities include temperature-controlled freight, high-security shipments, and cross-border drayage. Specialized businesses within the group also support regulated defense freight and agricultural transportation.

Development of the business

Founded in 1986, the company developed from a long-haul expedited carrier into a diversified transportation and logistics enterprise. Its acquisition of Landair in 2018 expanded dedicated carriage and warehouse management capabilities. A restructuring and rebrand during 2020–2021 established the Covenant Logistics Group identity and brought fleet operations under the Covenant Logistics brand.

Subsequent acquisitions broadened the group's specialized services, including AAT Carriers in 2022 and Lew Thompson & Son Trucking and Sims Transport Services in 2023. Covenant remains an active public operating company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CVLG.