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Top 25 Hot shot trucking companies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 89 hot shot trucking companies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,262 professional contacts across them, including 1,769 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers hot shot trucking companies headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hot shot trucking companies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,972 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Echo Global Logistics, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015, Everest Transportation Systems is a non-asset based brokerage, created with the goal of providing a fair and reliable logistics solution to our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “All Truck Transportation Co, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Transport Group, LLC is a privately held company providing unparalleled, multi-modal third party transportation solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide customizable logistics solutions that empower our customers to focus on their core business while we automate your freight procurement needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edge Logistics is a relationship-first freight brokerage that leverages technology and industry expertise to connect shippers of all sizes to top-tier carriers, helping them…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In the current climate of shipping services proving difficult, costly and complex across nearly every type of business- simplicity, transparency and affordability are essential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excited to announce we've rebranded to Redwood Logistics (formerly TSE) to better position ourselves for future growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Raven Cargo, we move freight the way it should be moved, fast, precise, and with zero excuses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sargent Logistics was founded in 2010 in the great city of Chicago, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zepto LLC is a full-service transportation and logistics firm located in Mokena, IL.For customers in the continental US, our firm provides a wide range of trucking services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AIT Truckload Solutions is now part of AIT Worldwide Logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One team, one rope, that is our mindset here at Helix Logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Driving Your Business Forward Since 1925 Grane Transportation has provided reliable, asset-based supply chain support to Chicagoland and the greater Midwest for nearly a century…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We handle all transportation modes with a focus on time sensitive, full truckload freight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over six years of experience in the transport industry, IIK TRANSPORT, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a logistics company specializing in freight movement and logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Merge Transportation is a leading freight provider offering Full Truckload, LTL, Dry Van, Refrigerated, Flatbed, Hazmat, Intermodal, and Expedited shipping services across North…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a carrier company run by a young and enthusiastic team keen on offering top-quality service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At P2A Logistics, we are a team of experienced and knowledgeable freight brokers & logistics professionals dedicated to providing our clients with top-notch logistics solutions to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sunny River LLC is synonymous for the first class service in transportation!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through American Carrier Transport, we have proudly served customers for the past six years by providing nationwide transportation and 3PL solutions throughout the United States…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Groundhawg, we have over twenty years of experience in the transportation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transparency is something we pride ourselves on and a promise we make to our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have access to the widest range of trailing equipment and provide full ground transportation services, including full truckload, hazmat, expedited, specialized and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hot shot trucking companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hot shot trucking companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hot shot trucking companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hot shot trucking companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hot shot trucking companies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 89 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hot shot trucking companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “hot shot trucking companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hot shot trucking companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hot shot trucking companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,769 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hot shot trucking companies by metro in the United States
- Hot shot trucking companies in Houston181
- Hot shot trucking companies in Chicago89
- Hot shot trucking companies in Dallas70
- Hot shot trucking companies in Atlanta69
- Hot shot trucking companies in Miami56
- Hot shot trucking companies in Charlotte47
- Hot shot trucking companies in New York44
- Hot shot trucking companies in Indianapolis42
- Hot shot trucking companies in Cincinnati35
- Hot shot trucking companies in Laredo34
- Hot shot trucking companies in Los Angeles34
- Hot shot trucking companies in Las Vegas33
- Hot shot trucking companies in Orlando33
- Hot shot trucking companies in Richmond31
- Hot shot trucking companies in Jacksonville30
- Hot shot trucking companies in Phoenix30
- Hot shot trucking companies in Fort Worth29
- Hot shot trucking companies in Tampa29
- Hot shot trucking companies in Chattanooga28
- Hot shot trucking companies in Columbus28
- Hot shot trucking companies in San Antonio27
- Hot shot trucking companies in Austin26
- Hot shot trucking companies in Fresno26
- Hot shot trucking companies in Grand Rapids26
- Hot shot trucking companies in Kansas City25
- Hot shot trucking companies in Memphis25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hot shot trucking companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hot shot trucking companies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 89 hot shot trucking companies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Echo Global Logistics, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hot shot trucking companies?
Houston leads with 181 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (89) and Dallas (70).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,769 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 89 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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