J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call January 18, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Brad Delco - Senior Vice President, Finance

John Roberts - Chief Executive Officer

Shelley Simpson - President

John Kuhlow - Chief Financial Officer

Nick Hobbs - Chief Operations Officer and President, Contract Services

Darren Field - President, Intermodal

Brad Hicks - Executive Vice President, People and President, Highway Services

Conference Call Participants

Chris Wetherbee - Citi

Jon Chappell - Evercore ISI

Scott Group - Wolfe Research

Justin Long - Stephens

Amit Mehrotra - Deutsche Bank

Ravi Shanker - Morgan Stanley

Brian Ossenbeck - J.P. Morgan

Tom Wadewitz - UBS

Jordan Alliger - Goldman Sachs

Brandon Oglenski - Barclays

Allison Poliniak - Wells Fargo

Ken Hoexter - Bank of America

Todd Fowler - KeyBanc Capital Markets

Ari Rosa - Credit Suisse

Bascome Majors - Susquehanna

Jason Seidl - Cowen

Bruce Chan - Stifel

Jeff Kauffman - Vertical Research

Operator

Hello and welcome to today's J.B. Hunt Fourth Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Elliot, and I’ll be your coordinating you call today. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand over to Brad Delco, Senior Vice President of Finance. The floor is yours. Please go ahead.

Brad Delco

Good morning. Before I introduce the speakers, I would like to take some time to provide some disclosures regarding forward-looking statements. This call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as expects, anticipates, intends, estimates or similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements.

These statements are based on J.B. Hunt's current plans and expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause future activities and results to be materially different from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. For information regarding risk factors, please refer to J.B. Hunt's annual report on Form 10-K and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Now, I’d like to introduce the speakers on today's call. This morning I'm joined by our CEO, John Roberts; our President, Shelley Simpson; our CFO, John Kuhlow; Nick Hobbs, COO and President of Contract Services; Darren Field, President of Intermodal; and Brad Hicks, Executive Vice President of People and President of Highway Services.

At this time, I’d like to turn the call to our CEO, Mr. John Roberts, for some opening comments. John?