Comment / Against the odds: Knight-Swift – deal-making fever doesn't subside

It’s hard to call the shots in trucking when it comes to deciding seasonal leaders and laggards stateside nowadays, but there seems to be a new winner, Knight-Swift (“KNX”; $10bn market cap), which almost smashed another record on the stock exchange yesterday.

That was possible mostly thanks to the announcement of the $150m MME deal that spells (LTL) continuity in corporate strategy and leaves very little room to the imagination as to what could be next for a company where the ...