COVENANT LOGISTICS GROUP, INC.

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Board of Directors and Shareholders

Covenant Logistics Group, Inc.

Opinion on the financial statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. (a Nevada holding company) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, based on our audits and the report of Coulter & Justus, P.C., the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in the 2013Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”), and our report dated February 27, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion.

We did not audit the financial statements of Transport Enterprise Leasing, LLC, a 49% owned equity method investment. The investment in Transport Enterprise Leasing, LLC was $85.512 million and $77.405 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and the equity in its net income was $14.709 million, $14.713 million and $21.384 million for the years ended December 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Those financial statements were audited by Coulter & Justus, P.C., whose report has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amounts included for Transport Enterprise Leasing, LLC, is based solely on the report of Coulter & Justus, P.C.

Basis for opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits and the report of Coulter & Justus, P.C. provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical audit matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Auto Liability Self-Insurance Reserves

As described further in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has significant self-insured amounts related to its auto liability and has exposure to fluctuations in the number and severity of claims and to variations between estimated and actual ultimate payouts. The Company records a liability for the uninsured portion of pending claims and claims related expenses including legal and other direct costs associated with the claim. Estimates require judgment concerning the nature and severity of the claim, historical trends, and other relevant information based on specific facts and circumstances for individual claims. We identified the estimation of the Company’s auto liability accrual subject to self-insured insurance retention amounts as a critical audit matter. Incurred auto liabilities are determined by projecting the estimated ultimate loss related to a claim, less actual costs paid to date, based upon the nature and severity of the claim and historical trends.

The principal consideration for our determination that auto liability self-insurance reserve is a critical audit matter is the high level of estimation uncertainty related to determining the severity of these types of claims, as well as the inherent subjectivity in management’s judgment in estimating the total costs to settle or dispose of these claims.

Our audit procedures related to the auto liability self-insurance reserves included the following, among others.

/s/Grant Thornton LLP

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2020.

Charlotte, North Carolina

February 27, 2026