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Summary of Revenue by Segment and Business Line (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 893,448	$ 805,859
Intermodal [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	531,562	508,223
Truck brokerage [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	184,457	148,732
Logistics [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	177,429	148,904
Operating Segments [Member] | Hub [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	677,132	615,227
Operating Segments [Member] | Mode LLC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	241,874	208,832
Operating Segments [Member] | Intermodal [Member] | Hub [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	424,596	413,806
Operating Segments [Member] | Intermodal [Member] | Mode LLC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	122,203	112,366
Operating Segments [Member] | Truck brokerage [Member] | Hub [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	106,664	81,410
Operating Segments [Member] | Truck brokerage [Member] | Mode LLC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	78,178	67,349
Operating Segments [Member] | Logistics [Member] | Hub [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	145,872	120,011
Operating Segments [Member] | Logistics [Member] | Mode LLC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	41,493	29,117
Intersegment Elims [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	(25,558)	(18,200)
Intersegment Elims [Member] | Intermodal [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	(15,237)	(17,949)
Intersegment Elims [Member] | Truck brokerage [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	(385)	(27)
Intersegment Elims [Member] | Logistics [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	$ (9,936)	$ (224)

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1(d))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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