Hot Shot Trucking
A North American expedited freight company to meet your urgent trucking needs.
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WHO WE ARE
A Trusted Time-Critical Logistics Partner with Decades of Experience
HotShotTrucking.com has the logistical expertise, massive network and resources to move any hot shot shipment under last-minute deadlines. We build the customized shipping strategy your supply chain demands.
HotShotTrucking.com leverages a global network to expedite your freight via ground or air. We find the fastest route to your destination, no matter the obstacle.
Choose from our complete hotshot trucking lineup of semi-trucks, flatbeds, and sprinter vans. We offer everything from standard tractor-trailers to specialized air charter services to keep your supply chain moving.
Sprinter Vans
When speed counts but you don’t want to break the cost barrier, cargo Sprinter vans are an excellent option for your expedited freight. We provide a broad selection of Sprinter vans to support both local and long-distance ground shipping needs.
Sprinter Van Services about Sprinter vansBox Trucks
Small box trucks range from 10 to 16 feet long, larger than Sprinter vans but smaller than large box trucks and semi-trailers. Secure your urgent shipment immediately. We deploy vetted vehicles to ensure your freight arrives safely, securely, and strictly on time.
Box Truck Services about Box trucksLarge Straight Trucks
Scale up your capacity significantly beyond a standard van. Large straight trucks handle time-sensitive cargo and palletized freight with ease. Consult our expeditors to maximize your efficiency. We identify the ideal ground transportation vehicle to match your specific load requirements.
Straight Truck Services about Large straight trucks53' Dry Vans
We offer access to 53-foot dry vans capable of handling loads up to 44,000 pounds, providing door-to-door service through authorized motor carriers across the USA, Canada, and Mexico. These 53-foot dry vans are perfect for transporting various freight types, such as palletized goods, non-perishable items, and other sizable loads.
Dry Van Services about 53' dry vansFlatbed Trucking Services
We provide flexible flatbed trucking services tailored to meet urgent deadlines, with the convenience of a dedicated point of contact and real-time tracking. Whether you’re shipping construction materials, machinery, or industrial equipment, our expeditors ensure fast, reliable transport to the final destination.
Full Flatbed Services about Flatbed trucking servicesHot Shot Trucking
Our hotshot trucking services are equipped to handle wide or oversized hot shot loads, as well as specialized equipment for local, regional, or national deliveries. Get in touch with our experienced team of expeditors to get a freight quote now.
Hot Shot Trucking Services about Hot shot truckingRequest a Free Freight Quote
The Right Capacity Is Key to Every Urgent Shipment
Your urgent shipment will be the only freight in the sprinter van, box truck, straight truck, hot shot truck, 53’ dry van, or full flatbed to minimize damage and ensure the shipment goes direct from pickup to delivery.
SPRINTER VAN
HotShotTrucking.com's network of expedited Sprinter vans have the capacity to meet your local, regional, or long-distance ground shipping needs. Measuring 8-12’ x 52” x 70", our carefully-selected vans have the capacity to carry loads up to 3,000 lbs.
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BOX TRUCK
We pride ourselves in working with trusted partners that offer carefully-vetted box trucks, from lift-gate service to varying sizes that accommodate smaller loads. Box trucks, or small straight trucks, measure 12-16’ x 94” x 70” and have the capacity to carry up to 5,000 pounds.
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STRAIGHT TRUCK
Measuring 22-26’ x 96” x 96”, straight trucks can carry loads up to 9,000 pounds. Large straight truck services offer focused logistics, professional drivers, and deeply-experienced expeditors to get your delivery where it needs to go.
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HOT SHOT TRUCK
We'll happily arrange for your freight to be transported via hot shot trucking services. We've proudly partnered with hot shot trucking providers across North America to give you access to carefully-vetted ground delivery vehicles for your time-critical freight.
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53' DRY VAN
Our premium network of 53-ft dry vans can carry loads up to 42,000 pounds. Measuring 53’ x 99” x 102”, these carefully-vetted vehicles will ensure your time-sensitive freight arrives at its destination safely.
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FULL FLATBED
HotShotTrucking.com's network of full flat bed vehicles can accommodate wide or mega-size loads, such as specialized equipment machinery of all weights and sizes. Measuring 48-53’ x 102” x 102”, full flat bed vehicles can carry freight of up to 48,000 pounds.
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Discover the power of hot shot trucking with a trusted partner that delivers expedited freight solutions nationwide.
KEY BENEFITS
HotShotTrucking.com powers a nationwide network built for speed, reliability, and true coast-to-coast reach.
We align our hot shot services strictly with your timeline. Ship to anywhere, whether it is a downtown center or an isolated job site. We specialize in time-critical freight and high-pressure same-day sprints. Operate around the clock with our dedicated 24/7 dispatchers.
EXPLORE OUR COVERAGETired of being passed around call centers when trying to track a shipment? With us, you get a dedicated single point of contact every time.
Experience the power of dedicated project management. Your Single Point of Contact (SPOC) oversees your freight from the initial quote to final delivery. Trust one expeditor to handle booking, planning, and all communication.
Gain a partner who understands your specific needs. We ensure a seamless experience by keeping your shipment in one pair of capable hands.
Meet the Team
Shipping urgent freight takes more than just trucks, it requires expertise.
Deploy a dedicated team with decades of experience in the hot shot trucking industry. We go beyond simply booking a truck and driver. Our expeditors coordinate every detail, enforce special handling instructions, and monitor transit in real-time.
Rely on our deep knowledge of hot shot logistics. We anticipate challenges and take care of them before they ever impact your shipment.
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In the modern supply chain, information is as vital as the freight itself.
Eliminate the guesswork with our advanced real-time tracking tools. We provide up-to-the-minute visibility into your cargo’s status from pickup to delivery.
Leverage our precise GPS tracking and live data feeds. You can monitor the truck’s exact progress constantly.
Track your critical delivery on the map and view accurate arrival times. We send you instant notifications at every key milestone.
VIEW ALL SERVICESWhy Businesses Rely on Hot Shot Trucking
- Speed and Hot Shot Delivery
- Direct, Door-to-Door Service
- Box Trucks, Straight Trucks and Dry Vans
- Cost Efficiency vs. Air Freight
- Nationwide 24/7 Availability
- Access to Remote and Hard-to-Reach Locations
- Hot Shot Services and Business Continuity
Speed and Hot Shot Delivery
Dominate your deadlines with hot shot delivery and expedited freight. We specialize in same-day delivery, next-day freight, and just-in-time shipments to keep your business moving.
Dispatch vehicles immediately and drive straight to the destination. We minimize downtime and meet strict schedules unlike standard LTL or scheduled air freight.
Protect your bottom line in critical industries like manufacturing, oil and gas, and healthcare. We ensure time-critical freight arrives exactly when you need it most.
Direct, Door-to-Door Service
Bypass hubs, terminals, and cross-docking entirely. Our exclusive-use trucking model reduces handling and virtually eliminates the risk of damage.
Maintain total transparency and control over your cargo. Your shipment remains in the care of a single driver from start to finish.
Box Trucks, Straight Trucks and Dry Vans
Match the perfect vehicle to your job, from Sprinter vans to flatbed hot shot trailers. We scale our solution to fit your freight size instantly.
Maximize efficiency and cost savings without sacrificing speed. We deploy the exact equipment you need, whether it is a small pallet load or oversized cargo.
Cost Efficiency vs. Air Freight
While faster than standard ground, expedited trucking is often significantly more affordable than air freight for regional or cross-country urgent loads. For heavy, bulky, or specialized items, ground expedited services provide a balance of speed and cost that air can’t match.
For heavy, oversized, or specialized shipments, ground expedited is also far more practical than air. This makes expedited ground services a cost-effective alternative to air freight when urgent delivery is required but budgets or cargo type make flying unrealistic.
Nationwide 24/7 Availability
Hot shot trucking companies operate round-the-clock dispatch, including weekends and holidays. This ensures that industries like oil & gas, healthcare, and manufacturing have access to on-demand transportation whenever emergencies occur.
By offering fast dispatch and driver availability, expedited carriers ensure shippers can schedule pickup of critical hot shot freight at any hour, including weekends and holidays.
Access to Remote and Hard-to-Reach Locations
Hot shot rigs – particularly pickup-and-trailer setups and straight trucks – can access sites that semi-trailers cannot, such as oilfields, construction sites, and urban loading zones. This ability to reach locations quickly makes them ideal for time-critical field operations.
Industries that depend on hard-to-reach sites – such as energy, construction, and utilities – rely heavily on hot shot services. Having the ability to send urgent freight directly to the point of use eliminates costly downtime and ensures crews, equipment, or projects stay on track.
Hot Shot Services and Business Continuity
Perhaps the most important advantage of hot shot and expedited trucking is the way it prevents costly business interruptions. For manufacturers, a single line-down event can cost thousands or even millions in lost productivity.
By preventing costly production stoppages, project delays, or medical shortages, hot shot trucking delivers a strong ROI. The cost of shipping is offset by the savings gained from avoiding downtime, making it a strategic tool for supply chain resilience.
Meet the Team
Setting the Standard in Urgent Shipping and Hot Shot Freight
In 2007, founder Dan Boaz launched The Expedited Group to redefine how hot shot trucking, expedited freight, and ground transportation services get done.
Since then, we’ve helped thousands of organizations move time-critical freight, hit urgent deadlines, and respond to critical emergencies. Guided by a seasoned team of expeditors and logistics specialists, HotShotTrucking.com delivers the expertise to resolve your immediate needs today while providing scalable dedicated trucking services that grow with you tomorrow.
The Right Capacity Is Key to Every Urgent Shipment
Your urgent shipment will be the only freight in the sprinter van, box truck, straight truck, hot shot truck, 53’ dry van, or full flatbed to minimize damage and ensure the shipment goes direct from pickup to delivery.
SPRINTER VAN
HotShotTrucking.com's network of expedited Sprinter vans have the capacity to meet your local, regional, or long-distance ground shipping needs. Measuring 8-12’ x 52” x 70", our carefully-selected vans have the capacity to carry loads up to 3,000 lbs.
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BOX TRUCK
We pride ourselves in working with trusted partners that offer carefully-vetted box trucks, from lift-gate service to varying sizes that accommodate smaller loads. Box trucks, or small straight trucks, measure 12-16’ x 94” x 70” and have the capacity to carry up to 5,000 pounds.
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STRAIGHT TRUCK
Measuring 22-26’ x 96” x 96”, straight trucks can carry loads up to 9,000 pounds. Large straight truck services offer focused logistics, professional drivers, and deeply-experienced expeditors to get your delivery where it needs to go.
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HOT SHOT TRUCK
We'll happily arrange for your freight to be transported via hot shot trucking services. We've proudly partnered with hot shot trucking providers across North America to give you access to carefully-vetted ground delivery vehicles for your time-critical freight.
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53' DRY VAN
Our premium network of 53-ft dry vans can carry loads up to 42,000 pounds. Measuring 53’ x 99” x 102”, these carefully-vetted vehicles will ensure your time-sensitive freight arrives at its destination safely.
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FULL FLATBED
HotShotTrucking.com's network of full flat bed vehicles can accommodate wide or mega-size loads, such as specialized equipment machinery of all weights and sizes. Measuring 48-53’ x 102” x 102”, full flat bed vehicles can carry freight of up to 48,000 pounds.
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Why Businesses Rely on Hot Shot Trucking
- Speed and Expedited Delivery
- Direct, Door-to-Door Service
- Flexible Vehicles
- Cost Efficiency vs. Air Freight
- Nationwide 24/7 Availability
- Access to Remote and Hard-to-Reach Locations
- Reduced Downtime and Business Continuity
Speed and Expedited Delivery
Hot shot trucking and expedited freight are designed for same day delivery, next-day freight, and just-in-time shipments. Unlike standard LTL or scheduled air freight, vehicles are dispatched immediately and drive straight to the destination, minimizing downtime and meeting tight deadlines.
Speed is critical in industries like manufacturing, oil and gas, and healthcare, where downtime can cost thousands of dollars per hour. By relying on expedited trucking, shippers ensure that time-critical freight arrives when it’s needed most.
Direct, Door-to-Door Service
Expedited ground transportation avoids hubs, terminals, and cross-docking common with traditional shipping. This exclusive-use trucking model reduces handling, lowers risk of damage, and ensures a faster, more predictable transit from pickup to delivery.
Direct delivery also gives you greater transparency and control. Shippers know their cargo isn’t waiting at a terminal or being shifted between carriers but that instead, it’s in the care of a single driver from start to finish. For time-sensitive freight, that exclusive-use model is invaluable, ensuring your shipment reaches its destination quickly and intact.
Flexible Vehicles
From Sprinter vans and cargo vans for small pallet loads, to straight trucks and flatbed hot shot trailers for heavier or oversized cargo, shippers can match the right vehicle to the job. This flexibility makes hot shot trucking cost-effective and scalable for different freight sizes. By matching freight to the right equipment, hot shot trucking companies deliver efficiency and savings without sacrificing speed.
Cost Efficiency vs. Air Freight
While faster than standard ground, expedited trucking is often significantly more affordable than air freight for regional or cross-country urgent loads. For heavy, bulky, or specialized items, ground expedited services provide a balance of speed and cost that air can’t match.
For heavy, oversized, or specialized shipments, ground expedited is also far more practical than air. This makes expedited ground services a cost-effective alternative to air freight when urgent delivery is required but budgets or cargo type make flying unrealistic.
Nationwide 24/7 Availability
Hot shot trucking companies operate round-the-clock dispatch, including weekends and holidays. This ensures that industries like oil & gas, healthcare, and manufacturing have access to on-demand transportation whenever emergencies occur.
By offering fast dispatch and driver availability, expedited carriers ensure shippers can schedule pickup of critical hot shot freight at any hour, including weekends and holidays.
Access to Remote and Hard-to-Reach Locations
Hot shot rigs – particularly pickup-and-trailer setups and straight trucks – can access sites that semi-trailers cannot, such as oilfields, construction sites, and urban loading zones. This ability to reach locations quickly makes them ideal for time-critical field operations.
Industries that depend on hard-to-reach sites – such as energy, construction, and utilities – rely heavily on hot shot services. Having the ability to send urgent freight directly to the point of use eliminates costly downtime and ensures crews, equipment, or projects stay on track.
Reduced Downtime and Business Continuity
Perhaps the most important advantage of hot shot and expedited trucking is the way it prevents costly business interruptions. For manufacturers, a single line-down event can cost thousands or even millions in lost productivity.
By preventing costly production stoppages, project delays, or medical shortages, hot shot trucking delivers a strong ROI. The cost of shipping is offset by the savings gained from avoiding downtime, making it a strategic tool for supply chain resilience.
Meet the Team
Setting the Standard in Urgent Shipping and Hot Shot Freight
In 2007, founder Dan Boaz launched The Expedited Group to redefine how hot shot trucking, expedited freight, and ground transportation services get done.
Since then, we’ve helped thousands of organizations move time-critical freight, hit urgent deadlines, and respond to critical emergencies. Guided by a seasoned team of expeditors and logistics specialists, HotShotTrucking.com delivers the expertise to resolve your immediate needs today while providing scalable dedicated trucking services that grow with you tomorrow.
Industries We Serve
Automotive
As automotive technology develops, the need for components like computers and sensors has surged. To tackle this demand many automotive firms are partnering with third-party logistics providers on hot shot hauls. Working with these providers allows companies to quickly deliver critical shipments using vans, trucks, and gooseneck trailers for hot shot transportation.
Oil & Gas
In the oil and gas sector—where rigs often operate in remote, low-infrastructure locations—proper planning with a reliable expedited freight logistics partner like HotShotTrucking.com can be critical. Hot shot freight and expediting shipping services help companies minimize plant and pump downtime, unexpected disruptions, and critical equipment issues.
Construction
In the next few decades, there will be a need to repair or renew over half of the US building stock. So construction companies are increasingly partnering with third-party providers and hot shot trucking companies to quickly transport construction equipment to crucial sites. We link businesses with hot shot trucking firms for the immediate shipment of parts and equipment across North America.
Aerospace & Defense
The aircraft parts market in North America was worth $180.18 million in 2021 but supply chain issues have caused delays in delivering equipment. We have the expertise to handle shipping engines and other freight transportation loads in the aviation and aerospace industry. Our team of experienced drivers has extensive experience transporting aviation assets.
Machinery
Supply chain disruptions for machinery and equipment manufacturers come from three main factors: workforce shortages, challenges in accessing production components and inflation. Hot shot flatbed trucking and expedited freight services brokered by HotShotTrucking.com can help streamline your production supply chain across state lines with hot shot transport.
Renewables
Companies involved in wind energy and solar power benefit from expedited transportation services. When dealing with large wind turbine components or solar panels, timing and careful handling are crucial. HotShotTrucking.com supports these firms by providing full flatbed trucks and trailers to haul heavy or oversized renewable energy equipment on tight timelines.
Mining & Metals
Mining companies face challenges not only in acquiring new equipment but also in transporting shipments of raw materials. Third-party hot shot companies and logistics providers such as HotShotTrucking.com specialize in devising and implementing innovative shipping solutions regarding of shipping method so that mines can quickly return to regular operational capacity.
Telecommunications
While the auto industry first brought attention to the global chip shortage, the telecom industry faces even greater challenges. Microchips and semiconductors are integral to much of its equipment. This is where the speed and experience of trucking and freight services from HotShotTrucking.com can help. Our hot shot truck network excels at the prompt delivery of parts.
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Need urgent shipping you can count on? Whether you’re moving critical parts, medical equipment, or time-sensitive freight, HotShotTrucking.com delivers speed and precision that keeps your business moving.
Our expert logistics team coordinates hot shot trucking and expedited freight solutions across the U.S. — combining dedicated ground transport and priority air options to meet your tightest deadlines. From hot shot loads to same-day delivery, every shipment is monitored from pickup to drop-off for complete peace of mind.
Once you request a quote, you’ll be connected with a dedicated shipping specialist who will customize the best hot shot delivery plan for your freight.
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