[2] The company was initially called Express-1 Expedited Solutions and listed on American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol XPO.

[13] Some notable acquisitions include: 3PD, Inc. (August 2013), Pacer International, Inc. (March 2014), Norbert Dentressangle SA (April 2015) and Con-way Inc. (October 2015).

[18] In 2019, XPO Logistics released a mobile game simulating freight operations for the Tour de France.

[24] XPO spun off its brokerage and other services—managed transportation, global forwarding and last-mile logistics—business to a separate company named RXO, Inc. in November 2022.

[30] XPO dropped "Logistics" from its name in December 2022 and remains solely an LTL carrier, which allows multiple customers to transport goods in the same truck.

[22] In March 2022, XPO sold its North American intermodal business to Illinois-based STG Logistics for $710 million.

[32] In April 2023, XPO announced the hire of Dave Bates as chief operating officer of North American LTL.

[40][41] XPO provides dedicated truckload, LTL, truck brokerage, managed transportation, last mile and freight forwarding in Europe.