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MC 000000  ·  USDOT 0000000  ·  Clinton County, Missouri

Flat Iron Freight Co.

Dispatch 6:00a to 6:00p Monday through Friday, 7:00a to noon Saturday.
After hours, leave the load details and we call back before the next dispatch.

(816) 555-0142

What we haul

Steel, lumber, farm equipment, precast, and anything that loads from the side or the top. If it fits inside a van trailer, we are the wrong call and will tell you so on the phone.

Six tractors is small enough that the person answering the phone knows where every trailer is standing right now, and large enough that a Tuesday load does not wait until Thursday. Roll-off containers run on a separate schedule, listed further down.

Equipment

Legal maximums. Anything past these is a permit load, which we do run, with lead time.
TrailerDeckLegal maxWhat rides on it
Flatbed48 ft48,000 lbBanded steel, lumber packs, pipe, palletized block.
Step deck48 ft, 37 ft lower45,000 lbTractors, combines heads, anything over 8 ft 6 in tall.
Double drop29 ft well40,000 lbExcavators, dozers, tall tanks.
RGN29 ft well55,000 lbMachines that drive on rather than get craned on.
Roll-off12 to 30 yd10 tonsDemolition debris, shingles, farm scrap, clean fill.

What dispatch needs to quote you

Have these seven in front of you and the number comes back on the same call rather than tomorrow.

  1. Pickup and delivery, city and stateStreet addresses can wait. The two towns set the rate.
  2. Dimensions, all threeLength, width, height as it sits loaded. Height is the one that changes the trailer.
  3. WeightActual, not the catalog number. A scale ticket is better than an estimate.
  4. How it loadsForklift, overhead crane, or it drives on under its own power.
  5. Tarp or no tarpLumber and steel usually yes. It changes the rate and the driver.
  6. The date it has to be thereAnd whether that date is real or hopeful. Both are useful, they just price differently.
  7. Who signs and who paysIf those are two different companies, say so now rather than at the receiver.

Call it in at (816) 555-0142 or send the same seven lines to dispatch@example.com.

Roll-off containers

A different buyer entirely, so it runs on its own schedule and its own price list. Dropped in the morning, pulled when you call, no minimum haul count.

Shingles and clean concrete price separately because they go to a different gate. Say which on the phone and the number changes before you book, not after.

Lanes we already run

  • Kansas City metro, daily
  • St. Joseph and Savannah, daily
  • Cameron, Chillicothe, Trenton
  • Columbia and Jefferson City
  • Des Moines, twice a week
  • Omaha and Council Bluffs
  • Wichita and Salina
  • Springfield and Joplin
  • Topeka and Manhattan
  • Quincy and the river crossings

A load going somewhere not on this list is still worth a call. Backhauls out of a town we already deliver to are the cheapest freight we sell.

Equipment photographs

Shot 1Loaded flatbed, banded steel, tarps folded on the headache rack, taken from the front quarter in flat morning light.
Shot 2Step deck with a tractor chained down, shot low from the rear so the deck height reads.
Shot 3Roll-off can being set in a gravel driveway, cable still tight, driver visible.

These three slots are held for the owner's own equipment. Stock photographs of somebody else's trucks are worse than an empty box.