Knight Transportation Announces $0.50 Special Cash Dividend

Knight Transportation

announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a special cash dividend of $0.50 per share of common stock. The company's special dividend is payable to shareholders of record on December 7, 2012, and is expected to be paid on December 28, 2012. The special dividend will pay approximately $39.9 million on Knight's 79.7 million outstanding shares. This special dividend is in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share previously announced on November 8, 2012. After this dividend, Knight will have returned approximately $324.3 million to its shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock repurchases since January 2008. Chairman