Best transportation companies for female employees named

Women In Trucking releases annual list

Women In Trucking has released its annual list of the top transportation companies for female employees. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) has released its 2020 list of the top transportation companies for females.

The annual Top Companies for Women to Work for in Transportation list was created by WIT magazine Redefining the Road in 2018 as part of its mission to promote the accomplishments of businesses focused on the employment of females in the trucking industry.

Companies making the list this year were listed alphabetically, beginning with AGT Global Logistics, founded and led by Angela Eliacostas, WIT’s 2018 Influential Woman in Trucking. AGT also made the 2019 list.

Other repeat winners are American Central Transport, Boyle Transportation, Carbon Express, Carter Express, Centerline Drivers, Day & Ross, Dupre Logistics, Fifth Wheel Freight, Kenco, Kenworth, Knichel Logistics, NFI Industries, Odyssey Logistics & Technology, PACCAR Parts, Palmer Trucks, Peterbilt Motor Co., ReedTMS Logistics, Roehl Transport, Ryder System, Schneider, Total Transportation of Mississippi, Transport America, Trimac Transportation and YRC. 

WIT saluted AGT, Kenco and Knichel as top women-owned businesses last year. Other female-owned companies named to the 2020 best places to work list are Aria Logistics, Bennett International Group, Brenny Transportation and Rihm Family Companies. 

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    Senior Editor Kim Link-Wills has written about everything from agriculture as a reporter for Illinois Agri-News to zoology as editor of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. Her work has garnered awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Prior to serving as managing editor of American Shipper, Kim spent more than four years with XPO Logistics.