Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information

We have two reportable segments – Truckload Transportation Services (“Truckload”) and Value Added Services (“VAS”).

The Truckload segment consists of two operating units, One-Way Truckload and Specialized Services, that are aggregated because they have similar economic characteristics and meet the other aggregation criteria described in the accounting guidance for segment reporting. One-Way Truckload is comprised of the following operating fleets: (i) the regional short-haul (“Regional”) fleet transports a variety of consumer nondurable products and other commodities in truckload quantities within geographic regions across the United States using dry van trailers; (ii) the medium-to-long-haul van (“Van”) fleet provides comparable truckload van service over irregular routes; and (iii) the expedited (“Expedited”) fleet provides time-sensitive truckload services utilizing driver teams. Specialized Services provides truckload services dedicated to a specific customer, generally for a retail distribution center or manufacturing facility, including services for products requiring specialized trailers such as flatbed or temperature-controlled trailers. Revenues for the Truckload segment include a small amount of non-trucking revenues which consist primarily of the portion of shipments delivered to or from Mexico where we utilize a third-party capacity provider.

The VAS segment generates the majority of our non-trucking revenues through four operating units that provide non-trucking services to our customers. These four VAS operating units are as follows: (i) truck brokerage (“Brokerage”) uses contracted carriers to complete customer shipments; (ii) freight management (”Freight Management”) offers a full range of single-source logistics management services and solutions; (iii) the intermodal (“Intermodal”) unit offers rail transportation through alliances with rail and drayage providers as an alternative to truck transportation; and (iv) Werner Global Logistics international (“WGL”) provides complete management of global shipments from origin to destination using a combination of air, ocean, truck and rail transportation modes.

We generate other revenues related to third-party equipment maintenance, equipment leasing and other business activities. None of these operations meets the quantitative reporting thresholds. As a result, these operations are grouped in “Other” in the tables below. “Corporate” includes revenues and expenses that are incidental to our activities and are not attributable to any of our operating segments. We do not prepare separate balance sheets by segment and, as a result, assets are not separately identifiable by segment. Inter-segment eliminations in the table below represent transactions between reporting segments that are eliminated in consolidation. VAS segment revenues for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2012, have been revised to conform with the current presentation.

The following table summarizes our segment information (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended  September 30,						Nine Months Ended  September 30,
	2013			2012			2013			2012
Revenues
Truckload Transportation Services	$	412,673		$	420,003		$	1,234,442		$	1,270,381
Value Added Services	96,455			83,213			270,150			245,839
Other	3,368			2,872			7,495			9,410
Corporate	1,021			1,139			2,667			3,633
Subtotal	513,517			507,227			1,514,754			1,529,263
Inter-segment eliminations	(1,789		)	(723		)	(3,491		)	(2,571		)
Total	$	511,728		$	506,504		$	1,511,263		$	1,526,692
Operating Income
Truckload Transportation Services	$	27,101		$	36,659		$	85,158		$	113,097
Value Added Services	4,193			3,779			12,295			12,067
Other	949			402			3,477			1,761
Corporate	340			965			2,707			1,395
Total	$	32,583		$	41,805		$	103,637		$	128,320