Amazon Expands LTL Targeting the Economy Lane

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Amazon Expands LTL Targeting the Economy Lane

TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC QUICK TAKE: INDUSTRY UPDATE

June 10, 2026

■Airfreight & Surface Transportation: Air Amazon Expands LTL Targeting the Economy

Freight & Logistics

& Surface Transportation: Rail Lane■Airfreight

■Airfreight & Surface Transportation:

Trucking

Jason H. Seidl THE TD COWEN INSIGHT

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Amazon expanded LTL from inbound-only to full P&D. Service appears more skewed to

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economy (3–4 day) lanes with intermodal-heavy design & smaller coverage footprint. Market

Elliot Alper share impact potentially incrementally negative for peers down the service hierarchy. LTL sell-

646 562 1403 off reflects positioning to some degree. We continue to favor the TL over the LTL names on

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cycle recovery and capacity restrictions.

Uday Khanapurkar, CFA

646 562 1362 ■Amazon announced expansion of its LTL service from an inbound-only offering to a

uday.khanapurkar@tdsecurities.com full pickup and delivery suite as part of its Supply Chain Services expansion. The retail

behemoth had announced the inbound-only segment of the service last year and only

serviced LTL shipments moving into their own fulfillment centers. The expanded service

would allow a shipper to utilize LTL capacity to ship into any storage facilities as well as to

final distributors/retailers.

■We have previously highlighted that the scale of Amazon's retail capex (notes here

and here) could imply significant capacity and that the chances of them running an

overcapacitized network were material. Amazon recently disclosed its equipment

pool of 80K trailers and 24K intermodal containers placing them as one of the largest