The Largest Private Fleets

Ranked by 2000 fleet total (figures include trucks and tractors)

Rank — Company — 2000 Fleet Total — Trailers

1 — Tyson Foods Inc. pf Springdale — 2,341 — 4,237

2 — Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems LLC* (formerly Treadco Inc.) of Fort Smith — 2,200 — NA

3 — Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs — 185 — 240

4 — George’s Inc. of Springdale — 73# — NA

5 — Peterson Farms Inc. of Decatur — 45 — 75

NR — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville** — 8,960 — 24,300

(NR) — Not rated.

(*) — Wingfoot, which is based in Fort Smith, is a result of the Nov. 1 merger of Treadco Inc. and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Goodyear owns 60 percent of Wingfoot. The Fort Smith company has about 2,000 commercial trucks and about 200 tractors with an undetermined number of trailers.

(**) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. didn’t respond to our inquiries, so we used their numbers from 1999 instead of 2000. # Based on Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration figures.

The lists include tractor-trailer rigs and large commercial trucks but not pickup trucks.

Source: The companies, except for George’s Inc. (See #.)

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