Key facts
- Founded 2008 · headquartered in Kansas City, KS
- Privately held
- Gross revenue: $0.01B (est.) per Transport Topics 2024
- Primary freight modes: Flatbed
About Load King Brokerage
Load King Brokerage is a Kansas City, Kansas-based specialty freight broker founded in 2008, focused exclusively on flatbed, heavy haul, and over-dimensional (OD) freight. While most freight brokers handle standard dry van truckloads as their primary service, Load King operates in a specialized segment that requires a fundamentally different skill set: coordinating permits across multiple states, engineering load securement plans, arranging pilot car escorts, managing bridge and infrastructure clearances, and working with carriers who own specialized equipment like lowboys, extendable flatbeds, multi-axle trailers, and hydraulic platform trailers.
Based in Kansas City — a central hub for freight moving between the Midwest, Great Plains, Gulf Coast energy markets, and Southeast — Load King has developed carrier relationships and permit expertise that cover the industrial freight corridors most relevant to its core shippers: energy companies moving wind turbine components and oilfield equipment, construction firms transporting cranes, beams, and prefabricated structures, and manufacturers shipping large industrial machinery. The Great Plains region, in particular, has seen surging demand for heavy haul capacity as wind energy infrastructure construction has accelerated across Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
For shippers in construction, energy, and heavy manufacturing who move freight that exceeds standard legal limits for weight, length, width, or height, Load King Brokerage offers the specialist expertise that generalist brokers cannot reliably provide. Oversize and heavy haul loads require coordination that goes well beyond standard load booking — including state permit applications, route surveys, utility coordination for overhead line clearances, and timing moves to minimize traffic disruption. Shippers tendering this type of freight to a non-specialist broker risk costly delays, compliance failures, and damaged loads.
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Coverage
National coverage for heavy haul and over-dimensional freight with particular strength in central US corridors connecting manufacturing and energy production regions. Kansas City hub position provides access to major Midwest, Plains, and Southern freight markets.
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Pros & Cons
- Specialist expertise in heavy haul and over-dimensional freight that generalist brokers cannot replicate
- Established carrier network with access to lowboys, multi-axle trailers, and specialized heavy haul equipment
- Permit coordination experience across multiple states reduces the compliance burden on shippers
- Kansas City hub location provides strong access to energy and industrial freight corridors in the central US
- Focused service model means account managers understand the unique complexity of oversized load moves
- Exclusively specialized in heavy haul and flatbed — shippers needing dry van, reefer, or LTL must use a separate broker
- Heavy haul brokerage is inherently higher-touch and less price-transparent than standard freight modes
- Smaller company scale limits capacity options for very large or simultaneous multi-load heavy haul programs
- Technology offering is limited — no shipper portal, instant quoting, or real-time permit tracking tools confirmed
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FAQ
Is Load King Brokerage licensed and bonded as a freight broker?
Load King Brokerage is expected to hold active FMCSA freight broker authority and the federally required $75,000 surety bond (BMC-84). For heavy haul and over-dimensional moves, brokers and carriers must also comply with state permit requirements, escort vehicle regulations, and in some cases federal or state infrastructure restrictions. Shippers should verify Load King's current MC# and authority status at li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov and confirm permit coordination responsibilities before tendering a load.
What types of freight does Load King Brokerage move?
Load King Brokerage specializes in flatbed, heavy haul, and over-dimensional freight — including wind turbine components, industrial machinery, construction equipment, prefabricated structures, transformers, and other oversized or overweight loads. The company does not handle standard dry van, LTL, reefer, or intermodal freight. Its carrier network includes lowboys, extendable flatbeds, multi-axle platform trailers, and specialized heavy haul equipment.
How do Load King Brokerage's rates compare to other freight brokers?
Heavy haul and over-dimensional freight pricing is highly load-specific and cannot be compared directly to standard truckload rates. Costs are influenced by equipment type, load dimensions and weight, permit fees across each state in the route, pilot car requirements, route survey costs, and transit timing constraints. Shippers should expect Load King's pricing to reflect the true cost of specialist coordination rather than a commodity brokerage margin. Comparing quotes across two or three heavy haul specialists — rather than generalist brokers — will produce more meaningful price benchmarking.