What We Move
We run flatbed, hotshot, Conestoga, step-deck, dry van, reefer, LTL, partial truckload, expedited and sprinter, drayage, intermodal and power-only. Construction materials, mostly, out of the Houston and Gulf Coast corridor, onto live jobsites in every one of the 48 contiguous states. Whatever the load needs to ride on, we book it the same way.
Most of what we haul is going to a live jobsite, not a warehouse. It's a highway or heavy-civil site with an appointment window and no dock. That shapes which equipment gets picked as much as the mode does.
Whatever it needs to ride on.
Twelve ways to move a load. We run all of them the same way: quoted straight, confirmed in writing, tracked to delivery.
Flatbed
Tarped and strapped, rated up to 48,000 lb — MSE wall panels, structural steel, precast concrete, staged for a highway or heavy-civil site.
Hotshot
Lighter and faster, around 7,000 lb rather than a full trailer, for the load that can't wait for the next truckload run: a part, a repair, a jobsite that called this morning.
Conestoga
A flatbed under a rolling tarp. The load is covered without anyone climbing the trailer to throw tarps, and the sides still open for a crane or a forklift.
Step-deck
For freight taller than a standard flatbed can clear underneath a bridge. Same carrier network, same booking process.
Dry van
For freight that needs to ride enclosed rather than under a tarp, or that a customer specs that way.
Reefer
When a load needs temperature control from pickup to delivery, not just a tarp against the weather. Set and monitored for whatever the product needs.
LTL
For a partial load that doesn't need, or justify, the whole trailer. Priced and booked the same as anything else on this list.
Partial truckload
More than an LTL shipment and less than a full trailer. Fewer stops and less handling than LTL, and you are not paying for space that stays empty.
Expedited & sprinter
Smaller and faster than hotshot, for the load that's moving today instead of this week.
Drayage
Moving containers between a port or rail ramp and the next leg of the trip, in or out of the corridor.
Intermodal
Rail for the long middle of a run, with a truck on each end. Slower than driving it straight through, and worth it when the schedule has room.
Power-only
When a shipper already has the trailer and just needs a tractor and a driver under it.
Wall panels, steel and precast have to be loaded and unloaded from the side or the top, not the back of a box, which is why so much of it rides flatbed. A jobsite crane or forklift reaches over the rail; a flatbed lets it. Weight matters too: our flatbed freight runs close to 38,000 lb and tops out at 48,000 lb. That's standard legal weight, tarped and strapped for the road, staged so the crew can pull pieces off in the order they're needed, not just the order they were loaded. That's also why a load that could ride enclosed sometimes still rides flatbed instead. The delivery end doesn't have a dock either.
A load headed for a live jobsite isn't a load headed for a dock. There's no forklift standing by unless the site has staged one, and the crew that's waiting on it may not still be there in the afternoon. Equipment gets chosen with that in mind, not just the weight and the mileage.
A crew that leaves at three in the afternoon doesn't come back for a truck that shows up at four. Mode, timing, who's driving: we build the plan around the site's clock, not the other way around.
Houston out, 48 states in every direction.
We run out of the Houston and Gulf Coast industrial corridor to every one of the 48 contiguous states. Houston to Riviera. Houston to Fort Worth. Houston to San Antonio. Houston to Richmond, Indiana. Houston to West Haven, Connecticut. The corridor doesn't change; the destination does.
Some lanes run every week. Others run once and don't repeat. Either way, the load gets the same reference number, the same person answering, and the same median reply time, whether it's three hours up the road or three states over.
AVS holds property-broker authority that isn't limited by mode or state, so reach isn't the constraint — capacity and timing are. That's what the median reply time and the one-day coverage number above are actually measuring.
Need a flatbed or a hotshot moving tomorrow? Call (281) 758-8676 or email cj@avsfreight.com.
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