Cushing Transportation, Inc. Dispatch 24/7 (708) 656-5050
Cushing tractor 2507 under a 53-foot EMP container on a chassis at a Chicago rail ramp, the Willis Tower on the skyline behind

Chicago intermodal drayage

Unit 2507 · EMHU 832221 · 53′ off the ramp

Ramps we run

Every Class I in Chicago

  • 47th Street Chicago
  • Calumet
  • 63rd Street Chicago
  • 79th Street Chicago

  • Corwith Chicago
  • Cicero
  • Willow Springs
  • Logistics Park Chicago Elwood

  • Bedford Park
  • 59th Street Chicago

  • Global 2 Northlake
  • Global 4 Joliet
  • Yard Center Dolton

  • Harvey

  • Bensenville Franklin Park

Straight out of our dispatch system — the ramps we actually pulled from, not a list of every yard in Cook County.

If it comes off a Chicago ramp,
we pull it.

  • Intermodal container drayage 20′, 40′, 45′, 53′ — ramp to door
  • Hazmat Placarded loads, trained drivers
  • ISO tanks Liquid bulk in tank containers
  • Reefer Temperature-controlled, gensets
  • Overweight containers Permitted heavy across Chicagoland
  • Crosstown & transload Ramp to ramp, box to trailer
  • Yard spotting & shuttle Dedicated equipment on your site
  • Expedited Same day when the gate time slips
A Cushing tractor hooked to a container in a Chicago yard, stacked EMP and UMXU intermodal boxes behind it
The door of a 1940s White truck hand-lettered JOHN J. CUSHING TRUCKING CO., CHICAGO, ILL. P. 1245
John J. Cushing Trucking Co. · Chicago · Illinois permit 1245

Hauling before
the fire.

The 1870 federal census lists John Cushing, 23, of Chicago’s Ninth Ward. Occupation: drayman. Sixteen months later the city burned down. The name went on the door, and the permit numbers went underneath it, and that is still how we letter a truck.

The 1940s JOHN J. CUSHING TRUCKING CO. CHICAGO ILL. P. 1245
Today CUSHING TRANSPORTATION, INC. ORLAND PARK, ILL. USDOT 528388 ILCC 68492 MC
The whole story →
Two Cushing Mack tractors parked in the yard, unit 2004 nearest the camera

Owner-operators & their drivers

Home every night.
Chicago only.

Local intermodal out of Orland Park. No long haul, no living in the truck. The man who bought this company drove for it first.

See the pay and the routes