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Certainly during the Middle Republic, we see a lot more supplies being moved by senatorial legates (who may themselves be contracting individuals ships, etc for the purpose). Caesar, for all his supply concerns, gives us evidence for just one private grain purchaser.
So private businessmen filling public contracts probably had some role - but a smaller and less important (and presumably less lucrative) one that has long been supposed.
Also, on the road system, note Luttwak's observation (Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (1976), 67ff) about the interaction of vertical vs. horizontal roads. A lot of Roman roads didn't reach back to bases of supply, but connected one frontier region to another.
In short, a lot of those roads may be more for moving troops than for continuous movement of supplies to those troops (also on the Rhine and Danube, why move supplies by road when you can move them by river?)
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