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Founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt in 1961.1
The company was founded in 1961. By 1983, J.B. Hunt became a publicly held company and has grown into the 4th largest trucking firm in the U.S.
In 1989, J.B. Hunt Transport began partnering with railroads to offer intermodal service. The initial partnership was with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway later part of the BNSF Railway, and has since grown to other Class I railroads including Norfolk Southern, CSX, CN, and KCS. The company's operations are distributed in four business segments (intermodal transport, contract services, logistics and truckload shipping), providing delivery services in the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico. About two-thirds of the company's revenues and profits come from intermodal.
The company introduced a dedicated service in 1993.
On February 7, 2017, J. B. Hunt became a NASDAQ-100 company.
On February 22, 2024, J.B. Hunt entered into a multi-year agreement with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. As part of this deal J.B. Hunt acquired all of Wal-Mart's intermodal trailing equipment. This acquisition of roughly 15,500 trailers brings J.B. Hunt's total Intermodal trailing equipment count up to 118,171 intermodal boxes.
In 2024, J.B. Hunt purchased 20 hydrogen trucks from Nikola Corporation.
In 2025, J.B. Hunt, with BNSF Railway and Mexican company GMXT, launched a service called Quantum de Mexico for rail intermodal freight deliveries between the U.S. and Mexico.
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