US Cargo
Columbus-based carrier running same-day courier, ground and parcel delivery, lightweight LTL, pool distribution and white-glove final mile.
US Cargo covers an unusually wide span for one company — same-day courier and messenger work at one end, lightweight LTL and pool distribution at the other, with residential and white-glove final mile and warehousing in between. A shipment sitting awkwardly between courier and freight is normally two vendors and two quotes.
It has been at this since November 1972, when Ralph Richter borrowed $2,000 for a down payment on three leased vans and ran the office out of a garage. Since 2011 it has been owned by Pitt-Ohio, the Pittsburgh LTL carrier, which is where the heavier equipment comes from.
Six terminals cover Ohio and western Pennsylvania: Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and Pittsburgh. The Columbus facility near Rickenbacker Airport works as a local station by day — cargo vans, sprinters and straight trucks — and a cross-dock for the next-day network at night.
Past that footprint the company relies on partner carriers for Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York, so ask who actually handles the delivery on an East Coast lane. One genuine specialism: alcohol delivery for beer, wine and spirits distributors, with state-certified drivers and adult signature at the door.
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