For the third quarter, the company earned $16.3 million, or 44 cents a share, compared with $12.6 million, or 34 cents a share, a year ago.
Sales for the company, which competes with Pacer International and C.H. Robinson Worldwide, rose about 60 percent to $760.4 million.
Revenue at the intermodal segment, which involves the transportation of freight using multiple modes of transportation, grew 19 percent.
Analysts had expected earnings of 46 cents a share, on sales of $775.3 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. (Reuters)