For 25 years or longer, operating ratio (the ratio of operating expenses to operating revenue) has been a common measure of profitability and efficiency in the truckload transportation industry.

Operational performance ratios measure how different aspects of a company's finances are performing. The fixed-asset turnover ratio, operating cycle ratio and revenue per employee ratio each provide a ...

Saia’s operating ratio worsened to 91.9% in Q4 2025, according to earnings releases, a level even less desirable than what the carrier posted in Q1 when profitability is typically subdued. Excluding ...

In order to operate, your business must sell goods or services, buy equipment, pay its bills and receive payment from customers. Operating efficiency ratios provide numerical feedback about how ...

Earnings Call Insights: Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) Q3 2025 Kevin Freeman, President and CEO, opened by stating, "Old Dominion's third quarter financial results reflect continued softness in the ...

It is no secret that the transportation sector had a very tough time last year, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak. Railroads, being one of the most important corners of this widely-diversified sector, ...

According to cotton farmers on the High Plains, the weather makes no judgments, raining or hailing with equal fury on the just and the unjust. Based on responses to requests for information for this ...

The soft freight scenario in the United States is a major headwind to railroad operators as a bulk of its revenues is derived from freight. The dismal scenario with respect to rail freight traffic in ...

Heartland Express is keying in on cost cutting to improve its operating ratio and stem a run of quarters in the red. The North Liberty, Iowa-based company posted a loss in the fourth quarter of 2024 ...

CSX Corporation reported its fourth quarter and full year 2014 results on January 13 after market close. The railroad's fourth quarter revenue grew 5% driven by broad-based volume growth but unaided ...