UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
                       the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

                Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
                     February 27, 2006 (February 24, 2006)


                             FORWARD AIR CORPORATION
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


           Tennessee                      000-22490               62-1120025
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       (State or other            (Commission File Number)    (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction of incorporation)                               Identification No.)

            430 Airport Road
         Greeneville, Tennessee                                   37745
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(Address of principal executive offices)                        (Zip Code)


       Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (423) 636-7000


                                 Not Applicable
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          (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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SECTION 5.  CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT.

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Principal Officers.

     Effective  February 24, 2006, Rodney L. Bell was appointed to the office of
Chief Accounting  Officer of Forward Air Corporation (the "Company").  Mr. Bell,
who is 43 years old and a  Certified  Public  Accountant,  has served in several
capacities with the Company and its subsidiaries  since March 1992. Mr. Bell was
Assistant  Controller  from March  1992  until  being  appointed  Controller  in
February  1995.  He began serving as Vice  President  and  Controller in October
2000, and will continue serving in those capacities.

     There are no family  relationships  between Mr. Bell and any  directors  or
other executive officers of the Company. In addition,  there are no arrangements
or  understandings  between Mr. Bell and any other persons  pursuant to which he
was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer. There have been no transactions since
the  beginning of the  Company's  last fiscal year,  or any  currently  proposed
transaction,  or series of similar transactions,  to which the Company was or is
to be a party,  in which the amount  involved  exceeds  $60,000 and in which Mr.
Bell had, or will have, a direct or indirect material interest.

     The information in this report may contain "forward-looking statements," as
defined in Section 27A of the  Securities  Act of 1933, as amended,  and Section
21E  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act  of  1934,  as  amended.  Forward-looking
statements are  statements  other than  historical  information or statements of
current   condition  and  relate  to  future  events  or  our  future  financial
performance.  Some  forward-looking  statements may be identified by use of such
terms as "believes,"  "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "projects"
or "expects." Such  forward-looking  statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties  and other factors that may cause our actual results,  performance
or achievements to be materially different from any future results,  performance
or achievements  expressed or implied by such  forward-looking  statements.  The
following is a list of factors, among others, that could cause actual results to
differ  materially from those  contemplated by the  forward-looking  statements:
economic  factors  such as  recessions,  inflation,  higher  interest  rates and
downturns in customer business cycles,  our inability to maintain our historical
growth rate because of a decreased  volume of freight moving through our network
or decreased  average  revenue per pound of freight  moving through our network,
increasing  competition and pricing  pressure,  surplus  inventories,  loss of a
major customer,  the  creditworthiness of our customers and their ability to pay
for services  rendered,  our ability to secure terminal  facilities in desirable
locations at  reasonable  rates,  the  inability of our  information  systems to
handle an increased  volume of freight  moving  through our network,  changes in
fuel  prices,  claims  for  property  damage,   personal  injuries  or  workers'
compensation, employment matters including rising health care costs, enforcement
of and changes in governmental  regulations,  environmental and tax matters, the
handling of hazardous materials,  the availability and compensation of qualified
independent   owner-operators   and  freight   handlers   needed  to  serve  our
transportation needs and our inability to successfully  integrate  acquisitions.
As a result of the foregoing,  no assurance can be given as to future  financial
condition,  cash flows or results of  operations.  We undertake no obligation to
update or revise  any  forward-looking  statements,  whether  as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.


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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                      FORWARD AIR CORPORATION


Date: February 27, 2006               By: /s/ Matthew J. Jewell
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                                         Matthew J. Jewell
                                         Senior Vice President, General Counsel
                                         and Secretary


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