Capital Express (Cedar Rapids)

707 27th Avenue SW, in the south-west of Cedar Rapids, is all this branch page gives you. It publishes neither a phone number nor a fax, so booking goes through Omaha dispatch on (402) 592-9062 — worth knowing before you call, because the person answering is not in the building.

It is the company’s eastern Iowa address. Davenport is the only other point it lists out this way, and that one has no page or address at all, so anything between the Quad Cities and Iowa City is likely to be quoted from here.

A branch address matters for two of the five service lines in particular. The company stores customer critical-parts inventory at its hub and terminal locations, managed in its own software or the customer’s, and pulled and delivered 24 hours a day, year round; and it takes loads dropped at a hub by LTL carriers for final-mile delivery, priced by pallet or mileage without freight classification. The other three — dedicated medical and lab routes, on-demand and hot-shot, next-day regional distribution — run from here as they do everywhere else in the nine-state region the company has covered since 1987.