Same Day Delivery, Inc.

Forty years old and among the largest operators in this directory. It started in 1985 with a single cargo van and now runs more than a hundred vehicles — cargo vans, sprinters, straight trucks, flatbeds and tractor trailers — serving over a thousand customers across the Great Lakes region.

A live dispatcher answers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which is a different proposition from an after-hours voicemail and worth asking about if your problem tends to arrive at 2am.

The service range spans expedited and dedicated work, cartage, courier runs, LTL, scheduled pickup and delivery routes, and warehousing. The fleet spread is the point: the same company can take an envelope across town and a flatbed load to Chicago, so a mixed shipping profile does not need two vendors.

Note that brokerage is among the services offered. That is a carrier with a sideline rather than a broker — the vehicles are its own — but if it matters to you that your job is not passed on, say so when booking.