Chicago metro
North America's #1 rail interchange. Every major railroad (BNSF, UP, NS, CSX, CN, CP) converges here. Outbound to Atlanta, NYC, FL is constant. Tolls + congestion eat schedules — local knowledge matters.
Chicago is North America's #1 rail interchange — every major railroad converges here, which means every major retailer ships through Chicago intermodal. Illinois drivers who get the intermodal-drayage rhythm right run consistent five-figure weeks. We dispatch in that rhythm.
Each city is its own freight micro-market. We dispatch in all of them and route you toward whichever one fits your equipment and home base best.
North America's #1 rail interchange. Every major railroad (BNSF, UP, NS, CSX, CN, CP) converges here. Outbound to Atlanta, NYC, FL is constant. Tolls + congestion eat schedules — local knowledge matters.
CenterPoint Intermodal Center spans 6,400 acres — BNSF Logistics Park + UP Global IV combined move 3.5M+ TEUs/year. 5th-largest US intermodal complex. Drayage from Joliet ranges into Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas.
UP intermodal terminal northwest of Chicago. Less congested than Joliet. Outbound to Iowa + Minnesota DCs. A quieter alternative for owner-ops who don't want Chicago-metro traffic.
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) headquarters + grain processing. Corn, soybean, ethanol freight Sep–Nov drives flatbed and hopper demand. Outbound to ports and ethanol blending stations.
Caterpillar HQ + manufacturing. Heavy machinery flatbed outbound. Premium rates on equipment moves to construction and mining markets nationwide.
CenterPoint Intermodal Center in Joliet/Elwood is the 5th-largest intermodal complex in the United States — 6,400 acres anchoring BNSF Logistics Park and Union Pacific Global IV. Combined the two facilities move 3.5+ million containers per year. Every major importer with West Coast port volume rails containers to Joliet first, then drays them to regional DCs.
For owner-operators based within 300 miles of Chicago, Joliet drayage is a real freight market — boxes get drayed from Joliet to Indianapolis, Columbus, Iowa, the Twin Cities, Kansas City, St. Louis. Per-move rates aren't glamorous but volume + drop-and-hook efficiency means high-utilization weeks.
Outside drayage, Illinois ranks #1 in the country for outbound reefer rates (averaging $2.84/mi per DAT spot-market data, Q1 2026) — driven by food processing, frozen goods, and the Chicago retail outbound flow. We mix drayage + reefer + general dry van for IL-based drivers based on your equipment and weekly preferences.
Apply now and a US-based dispatcher will call you within the hour to walk through onboarding. No contract. No setup fee. Just better loads.