Taking steps to increase its available over-the-road capacity, global e-commerce bellwether Amazon recently announced that its trucking subsidiary, Amazon Freight has upped its North American dry van fleet trailer count to 80,000.
The company said this marks an expansion from its previous trailer count, of 70,000 less than a year ago.
“Reaching 80,000 trailers is a testament to our commitment to building infrastructure that scales with our customers’ ambitions,” said Ari Silkey, General Manager of Amazon Freight. “Every trailer Amazon adds to the fleet represents another opportunity for a business to move their freight reliably and efficiently.”
What’s more, the company explained that this expansion comes at a time when supply chains remain under pressure from shifting consumer demand patterns, ongoing capacity constraints, and the perpetual challenge of balancing cost with service quality.
As for the shipper benefits, this expansion provides, the company noted how more trailers mean greater flexibility during peak seasons, as well as faster response times for urgent shipments, and also the confidence that comes from working with a carrier who has invested heavily in the infrastructure needed to support long-term growth.
When Amazon Freight said in June 2025 that it had 70,000 dry van trailers, it also noted that it has more than 24,000 intermodal containers as well.
It explained that these milestones are about building out its capacity so Amazon Freight customers have the scalability and flexibility to meet their freight needs.
The need for Amazon to increase its trailer count follows research recently issued by ShipMatrix, a subsidiary of SJ Consulting, which showed that, for 2025, market share for Amazon Logistics, increased to 9.9%, coming in at 6.7 billion packages.
ShipMatrix explained that is a byproduct of FedEx and UPS showing less interest in delivering low-value B2C (business-to-consumer) parcels, as well as Amazon’s ongoing online sales growth, the glide down of Amazon volume in UPS’s network, and also from the initial phase of its rollout of deliveries to 4,000 U.S.-based rural communities, focused on consumers not in close proximity to physical stores.
