How does Dealport find transportation businesses that aren't listed for sale?

Research agents read state registrations and licenses, property, loan and lien records, and company websites. They judge each company on your rules with evidence, rank it on your weights, and find the owner.

Is Dealport a broker?

No. We don't represent sellers. Dealport works for the buyer: it finds the company and the owner, and reaches them in your name or hands them to your team.

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The owner of a regional trucking company walking between parked tractor-trailers in the yard at dusk, seen from behind, the left of the frame in deep shadow.

Buy a transportation business nobody has listed.

Most transportation companies worth owning aren't listed for sale. Tell us what your firm buys, and we'll show you the owners worth calling first.

All sectors

One transportation company, researched to the owner.

The open web
Do-not-call registry

Tri-County Freight Lines, Inc.Regional truckload carrier · Joplin, Missouri81A

Registered19871Filed

OfficerEarl Whitaker1Filed

Employees962Filed

Fleet40 tractors, 90 trailers3Observed

Revenue$14M–$22M4Estimate

PassRevenue $5M–$50M

PassStill run by its founder

PassNot owned by private equity

UnsettledNot listed with a broker

Why it ranks here

Owner nearing retirement, no successor×5
Dedicated lanes with long-standing shippers×3

Earl Whitaker · Founder and PresidentDirect line · confirmedQualified

Finds the owner

Transportation, by state

Questions buyers ask.

Few are listed. Most transportation businesses worth owning change hands without a listing, and their owners haven't spoken to a broker. Dealport runs your criteria on every one and finds the owner worth calling first.

A deal partner and the owner of a family business talking on a loading dock at golden hour, seen from the side, the right of the frame in deep shadow.

Name a market. We'll show you who owns it.

Bring one state. It starts with a pilot on your mandate, and you judge what comes back.

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