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167 Logistics and Transportation Companies Made the 2026 Inc. 5000. Here Are the Freight Names Worth Knowing.

Source
FreightWaves
Source link
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/167-logistics-and-transportation-companies-made-the-2026-inc-5000-here-are-the-freight-names-worth-knowing
Published
2026-08-18 23:27:27
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-19 03:29:21
Category
Freight, Shipping & Logistics
Geography
Global, US
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

<p>Every year, Inc. magazine publishes its Inc. 5000, a ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America based on three-year revenue growth, and every year it doubles as a snapshot of where the money and momentum are moving. For 2026, the logistics and transportation category landed 167 companies on the list, and the collective numbers [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com/news/167-logistics-and-transportation-companies-made-the-2026-inc-5000-here-are-the-freight-names-worth-knowing">167 Logistics and Transportation Companies Made the 2026 Inc. 5000. Here Are the Freight Names Worth Knowing.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com">FreightWaves</a>.</p>

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-19 03:29:21
Passed on: logistics_freight_transport, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "freight"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "2 linked geographies"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
1 · Low (11.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (25.5/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Insufficient
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Low (11.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (25.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no confidence-specificity evidence (actor entity, date, quantified value, or concrete verb)
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only
  • Only source-level entity metadata was available.
  • Only source-level geography metadata was available.
  • Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-19 03:29:22.