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Estes Express Lines Tracking
With RS Group, keeping a tab on your Estes Express Lines shipment is a breeze.
Estes Express Lines overview
- Headquarters
- Richmond, Virginia
- Core service
- Less-than-truckload (LTL) freight
- Ownership
- Privately owned
- Areas served
- United States and Canada
Estes Express Lines is one of the largest privately owned freight carriers in the United States, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It serves the United States and Canada.
Estes is best known for less-than-truckload (LTL) freight, where its national terminal network lets one carrier handle a shipment from pickup to delivery, in the U.S. or across the border into Canada.
Technology behind the network
To keep pace with what its customers need, Estes replaced cab-mounted devices, phone calls, and manual dispatch processes with software built on the Pega platform.
A pickup and delivery app
Designed with its own business teams, the mobile app gives dispatchers and back-office staff a clear view of every pickup and delivery, so they can plan freight movement more efficiently.
Real-time notifications
Estes’ customer service team sees where freight is and when it will deliver as it happens, so customers get timely, accurate updates.
A faster rating engine
A modernized LTL rating engine responds quickly to market changes and generates accurate rates and quotes, with less manual work and fewer errors than the mainframe applications it replaced.
Shipping Estes Express Lines through RS Group
When you request a quote, we price Estes alongside the other carriers in our network for your lane, weight, and freight class, and book the one that fits the shipment best. When that is Estes, you get its national network with RS Group managing the booking, the paperwork, and the follow-through.
Every booked shipment is in Priority1, with its tracking, paperwork, and invoices in one place. Shipping into Canada? Mention it when you request a quote, since a cross-border shipment needs commercial paperwork for Canadian customs. Need help with an Estes shipment that is already moving? Call or email our team and a real person picks it up.
Use our tools
Freight density calculator
Calculate your density
Density is the weight of your load divided by its volume in cubic feet, measured in pounds per cubic foot (PCF). To get cubic feet, multiply length, width, and height in inches and divide by 1,728. Density points to a freight class, though handling, liability, and stowability can change the class and the cost.
Enter one piece’s dimensions, the total weight, and the number of pieces, and the calculator works out the cubic feet, the density, and the class it points to.
Get an Estes Express Lines rate today
Send us the origin, destination, and freight details, and we will quote Estes alongside the rest of our carrier network.