Jerry Moyes is an American businessman who is the founder, former chairman, and CEO of Phoenix-based Swift Transportation, one of the largest trucking companies in the United States.
Moyes is a graduate of Weber State College, where he attended the John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics.
Moyes continues to live a private life at his Glendale, Arizona estate which is estimated to be the most expensive home in the city.
"[4][10] The next year, Moyes bought another truck and began to grow his fleet and business, largely hauling steel imports from California to Arizona.
Despite this large number, Moyes said that he was actually in debt at this time because he was so focused on growth, revenue would go right back into growing the company.
Knight-Swift Transportation is the seventh largest trucking company in the world with $7.5 billion in annual revenue providing hauling and logistics services in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
On September 26, 2006, Ellman sold controlling interest in the Coyotes, Arizona Sting, and its lease of Jobing.com Arena to Moyes, who retained Wayne Gretzky as part-owner and head of hockey operations.
On May 5, 2009, Moyes put the Coyotes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced a plan to sell the club to Jim Balsillie.
Moyes received full ownership in the 2006 deal that left Glendale Arena and its properties to him and looked to sell them the following year.
[19] In the mid-1990s, when Joe Garagiola Sr. was spearheading a group seeking an expansion franchise for Phoenix, Moyes put up $5 million to become a charter investor.
Moyes began talking with Colangelo and bought a stake in his other Arizona sports team the Phoenix Suns, becoming minority owner.
In this plan, he would donate 30 acres for the actual stadium and build the infrastructure around it including parking lots and youth sports fields.