GREENWICH, Conn. , Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XPO (NYSE: XPO), a leading provider of freight transportation in North America, today reported certain preliminary LTL segment operating metrics for November 2023. LTL tonnage per day decreased 0.4%, as compared with November 2022, attributable to a year-over-year increase of 3.8% in shipments per day and a decrease of 4.1% in weight per shipment. Actual results for November 2023 may vary from the preliminary results reported above.

Mario Harik, chief executive officer of XPO, said, “We’re continuing to make good progress on a number of fronts in the fourth quarter despite the soft freight market. November was our eighth consecutive month of year-over-year growth in shipments per day at a 3.8% increase. And our yield ex-fuel growth is tracking ahead of expectations for the quarter, with continued strength heading into 2024.”

Harik continued, “There’s a strong correlation between these operating gains and our strategy to become the industry’s best service provider. By enhancing our service quality, we’re increasing our yield and can capture more profitable share when industry tonnage rebounds. Through the first two months of this quarter, we continued to improve our damage frequency to a new company record."

About XPO

XPO, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) is one of the largest providers of asset-based less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation in North America, with proprietary technology that moves goods efficiently through its network. Together with its business in Europe, XPO serves approximately 50,000 customers with 563 locations and 38,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., USA. Visit xpo.com for more information, and connect with XPO on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

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These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to a material difference include the risks discussed in our filings with the SEC, and the following: the effects of business, economic, political, legal, and regulatory impacts or conflicts upon our operations; supply chain disruptions, the global shortage of certain components such as semiconductor chips, strains on production or extraction of raw materials, cost inflation and labor and equipment shortages; our ability to align our investments in capital assets, including equipment, service centers, and warehouses and other network facilities, to our customers’ demands; our ability to implement our cost and revenue initiatives; the effectiveness of our action plan, and other management actions, to improve our North American LTL business; our ability to benefit from a sale, spin-off or other divestiture of one or more business units; our ability to successfully integrate and realize anticipated synergies, cost savings and profit improvement opportunities with respect to acquired companies; goodwill impairment, including in connection with a business unit sale or other divestiture; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; fuel price and fuel surcharge changes; the expected benefits of the spin-offs of GXO Logistics, Inc. and RXO, Inc. on the size and business diversity of our company; our ability to develop and implement suitable information technology systems and prevent failures in or breaches of such systems; our indebtedness; our ability to raise debt and equity capital; fluctuations in fixed and floating interest rates; our ability to maintain positive relationships with our network of third-party transportation providers; our ability to attract and retain qualified drivers; labor matters; litigation; risks associated with our self-insured claims; governmental or political actions; and competition and pricing pressures. We caution that our operating results for November 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for future periods.

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