Capital Express (Des Moines)

The Des Moines branch is not in Des Moines. It operates from 1400 SE Gateway Drive in Grimes, on the north-west edge of the metro, and it is the only one of the company’s three Iowa branch pages that carries a local phone number of its own, (515) 289-3700, rather than sending callers to Omaha.

Grimes puts it on the outbound side of the metro, which fits the distribution work the company leads with in this region: regional next-day and next-morning delivery, with later release times than a national parcel carrier allows, and rates it will load into a shipper’s TMS so they can be quoted against alternatives. The rest of the list is the network’s — medical and lab logistics on dedicated routes, on-demand and hot-shot at one-, two- and three-hour levels, stored critical parts, and final-mile delivery for LTL carriers dropping a load at a hub.

Capital Express has been doing this since 1987 and is run from Omaha. Its other Iowa points sit around Des Moines rather than beyond it: Fort Dodge to the north-west, Clear Lake north, Cedar Rapids east.