Knight-Swift leadership shift: what it means for Canadian drayage and
Kevin P. Knight, co-founder and longtime CEO of Knight-Swift Transportation, is stepping down after the 2017 merger that created the continent's largest trucking conglomerate. David Vander Ploeg takes the chair. For dock-level ops at Canadian ports and inland facilities, this leadership transition signals a recalibration of fleet deployment strategy and rate discipline that will ripple through Q1 2025 drayage bookings.