Capital Express (Fort Dodge)

Of the twenty-seven locations Capital Express lists, seven publish a street address, and Fort Dodge is the thinnest of those seven: 2249 2nd Avenue North, and a fax number — 515-955-7772 — sitting where a phone number would normally go. There is no local line for this branch; dispatch is Omaha, on (402) 592-9062.

What it covers is north-central Iowa, a catchment with no metro in it and, apart from Clear Lake to the north-east, no other Capital Express point close by. That is the situation a regional carrier is for — a metro-based courier prices the drive out here as mileage, and a parcel network moves it on its own schedule rather than yours.

The services are the company’s standard set, in business since 1987 and run from Omaha: dedicated medical and lab routes, on-demand and hot-shot work dispatched by courier or box truck, next-day regional distribution, critical-parts inventory held at hub locations and pulled 24/7, and final-mile delivery for LTL carriers.