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0001628280-24-031416.txt : 20240708 0001628280-24-031416.hdr.sgml : 20240708 20240708215809 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001628280-24-031416 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240703 FILED AS OF DATE: 20240708 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240708 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Faught James R. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001831373 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22490 FILM NUMBER: 241106229 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10990 ROE AVENUE CITY: OVERLAND PARK STATE: KS ZIP: 66211 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FORWARD AIR CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000912728 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ARRANGEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT & CARGO [4731] ORGANIZATION NAME: 01 Energy & Transportation IRS NUMBER: 621120025 STATE OF INCORPORATION: TN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1915 SNAPPS FERRY ROAD STREET 2: BUILDING N CITY: GREENEVILLE STATE: TN ZIP: 37745 BUSINESS PHONE: 4236367000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 1058 CITY: GREENEVILLE STATE: TN ZIP: 37744 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LANDAIR SERVICES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930928 3 1 wk-form3_1720490282.xml FORM 3 X0206 3 2024-07-03 1 0000912728 FORWARD AIR CORP FWRD 0001831373 Faught James R. 1915 SNAPPS FERRY ROAD BUILDING N GREENEVILLE TN 37745 0 1 0 0 Chief Accounting Officer No securities are beneficially owned. /s/ Michael L. Hance, Attorney-in-Fact 2024-07-08 EX-24 2 fwrd-powerofattorneyfaug.htm EX-24 fwrd-powerofattorneyfaug

Power of Attorney Know all by these presents, that the undersigned (the “Reporting Person”) hereby constitutes and appoints Michael L. Hance as the Reporting Person’s true and lawful Attorney-in- Fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the Reporting Person, in the Reporting Person’s capacity as an officer or director of Forward Air Corporation (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder; (2) do and perform and all acts for and on behalf of the Reporting Person which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such Attorney-in-Fact, may be of benefit to, and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the Reporting Person. The Reporting Person hereby grants to such Attorney-in-Fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the Reporting Person might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such Attorney-in-Fact, or such Attorney-in- Fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by the virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The Reporting Person acknowledges that the foregoing Attorney-in-Fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the Reporting Person, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the Reporting Person’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the Reporting Person is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the Reporting Person’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the Reporting Person in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing Attorney-in-Fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Reporting Person has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 2nd day of July, 2024. /s/ James R. Faught James R. Faught