A sofa ordered online may spend part of its journey in a steel box riding on a freight train. J.B. Hunt describes itself as one of North America's largest transport and logistics companies, and it arranges that kind of trip for shippers across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Its core business is intermodal, meaning freight that switches between road and rail. Railroads pull its containers between terminals, and its own tractors usually handle pickup and delivery at each end, work called drayage. Around this it runs truck fleets dedicated to single customers, a brokerage that books outside truckers, home and business deliveries, and a truckload service hauling full trailers by road.
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