Freight we haul, on trucks we own.
Joseph Services is a motor carrier. Our tractors, our trailers, our drivers, running under our own operating authority. This page is the equipment and what it takes — so you can tell before you call whether we can move your freight.
Motor carrier of property (except household goods) · authority status ACTIVE · unit and driver counts as filed with the FMCSA
Three trucks, and that is on purpose
Three power units and two drivers is the whole company. It means the person who quotes your load is the person who knows which truck is under it and where that truck is standing right now.
It also means we say no sometimes. If the trailer is already committed for your pickup date we will tell you that on the phone rather than take the load and go looking for somebody else to haul it. We are not a broker and we do not re-broker freight: what we accept, we move ourselves.
Our own dry van in the yard. Every photograph on this page is our equipment or our freight.
- Hauls
- Palletized, boxed, floor-loaded
- Protection
- Fully enclosed, out of the weather
- Loads at
- Dock height, rear doors
- Secured with
- Straps and load bars
- Hauls
- Steel, machinery, building material
- Loads from
- The side or overhead, by crane or forklift
- Secured with
- Chains, binders, ratchet straps
- Weather
- Tarped when the freight needs it
- Hauls
- Freight too tall to ride on a flatbed
- Deck
- Drops behind the tractor for height
- Loads from
- The side or overhead
- Secured with
- Chains and straps, blocked as needed
- Hauls
- Temperature-controlled freight
- Unit
- Thermo King
- Before loading
- Pre-cooled to your set point
- Also runs
- Dry, as a van, when you need one
Tall, heavy and awkward
Freight that will not sit on a pallet is most of what our decks carry. Transformers, tarped loads that run the length of the trailer, equipment that has to be chained rather than strapped.
Send dimensions and weight before anything else. Height and width decide whether the load rides on a flatbed or a step deck, and whether it needs permits and a routed trip — and that is the difference between a rate we can hold and a number we would have to take back.
What we will not take
Household goods: our authority is motor carrier of property except household goods, so a house move is not ours to quote. If a load needs equipment we do not own, we say so and you keep your time. We would rather lose the quote than lose your freight.
Both loads are ours, photographed on our own decks.
- Electrical transformer
- Flatbed, chained and blocked
- Full-length tarped load
- Tarps over straps, end to end
- Light towers, several units
- One deck, chained individually
- Bundled steel
- Loaded at the dock, strapped in bundles
Where the trucks run
We are based at Sleepy Hollow on US-22 in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, between I-78 and I-81 — which is why the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic are the fastest turns for us.
The list here is what we will quote without asking twice. Anything else in the 48 contiguous states, ask: the answer depends on where the truck finishes its current load, and we will tell you straight rather than book it and hope.
- Pennsylvania, statewide
- New Jersey & New York metro
- Maryland · Delaware
- Virginia · West Virginia
- New England
- Ohio · Indiana · Michigan
- The Carolinas · Georgia
- 48 states, on request
Check us before you book
Two numbers, both public. You can pull our authority, our classification and our safety record out of the federal register in under a minute, and you should do that with anybody who offers to put a truck under your freight.
Our name on our own door. The truck that shows up carries it.
Straight answers
Are you a broker?
No. We are the carrier. We hold the authority, we own the trucks, and our drivers are on our payroll. When you book with us the equipment in these photographs is what arrives.
Could my load end up on somebody else's truck?
Not without you knowing. We do not re-broker freight. If we cannot cover a load with our own equipment we tell you that when you ask, not after you have handed it over.
What do you need to quote?
Pickup and delivery, weight, and either dimensions or a pallet count. Then the date it is ready and anything unusual about it — temperature, height, a forklift that will not be there, a receiver that only takes deliveries in the morning.
With that we can price it. Without dimensions on an oversized load we can only guess, and a guessed rate is a rate that changes.
Do you haul household goods?
No. Our authority is motor carrier of property, except household goods, so household moves are outside it. That is a legal boundary, not a preference.
Is a three-truck fleet big enough for us?
It depends on what you ship. For steady volume across many lanes at once, no — and we will say so. For a load, a run, or a regular lane you want the same driver on, a small fleet is the reason it works: nothing gets handed down a chain, and the phone is answered by somebody who knows the load.
Tell us what you are shipping.
Lane, weight, dimensions and the date it is ready. We will come back with a rate and the trailer it goes on, or we will tell you it is not ours to haul.
Looking for a driving job instead? See what we run and who we hire.