Capital Express (Sioux Falls)

813 East Benson Road, in the north of Sioux Falls, and the one branch here whose published number is toll-free rather than local — 800-895-3583. Use it for South Dakota generally: Rapid City is the company’s other South Dakota location and publishes no address, and the nearest points east are Mankato and St. Peter in Minnesota.

For on-demand work the company publishes its service levels rather than leaving them to the quote, which makes a branch like this easier to price against: a priority point-to-point run, one-, two- and three-hour pickup-to-delivery windows, and an AM/PM level collected at 9am for delivery by 5pm. Dispatch is by courier or box truck and it will go outside the region.

Alongside that sit the scheduled and contract lines that carry most of the volume — dedicated medical and lab routes, pharmaceutical distribution, bank and interoffice runs, postal pickup and delivery, next-day regional distribution, and fleet replacement for companies retiring their own vans. The company has been running final-mile logistics out of Omaha since 1987 and holds TSA certification to handle air freight cargo.