Becker Logistics

Becker Logistics is a privately held freight broker headquartered in St. Charles, IL, founded in 1997. With roughly $190 million in estimated gross brokerage revenue, Becker sits at the boundary between regional specialist and mid-size national broker. The company's Chicago-area roots give it strong carrier density across Midwest lanes — a practical advantage for shippers moving freight into or out of the Chicago hub, the largest intermodal and dry van nexus in North America.

Becker's mode strengths are dry van truckload and refrigerated freight, with flatbed and LTL as active secondary offerings. The food and beverage vertical is a stated specialty, which means Becker has developed carrier relationships calibrated for temperature-sensitive, time-definite, and food-grade equipment requirements. Shippers in CPG, food manufacturing, and grocery distribution will find Becker's carrier base more attuned to those operational requirements than a generalist broker of equivalent size.

For shippers evaluating Becker, the strongest case is for dry van or reefer freight originating or terminating in the Midwest, particularly food and beverage manufacturers in the Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana corridors. Becker's scale (~$190M) is large enough to provide meaningful capacity access but small enough that mid-volume shippers (25–200 loads per month) typically receive more dedicated account attention than they would at a Tier 1 broker.