Too heavy and awkward for a van
An enclosed van or a box truck cannot take the weight or the shape. Your load needs an open deck it can be chained down to, not a mode it will never fit in the first place.
Hotshot freight
Hotshot Trucking & Freight
Heavy, urgent, and too small to wait for a full flatbed.
A single piece too heavy for a van, but not enough to fill a flatbed, and it cannot sit around waiting for one to load up. Fello runs it hotshot on a pickup with a gooseneck or flatbed trailer, with a driver vetted for open-deck work, moving fast.
The problem
Your load falls in the gap between two modes
It is a piece of equipment, a bundle of steel, a machine for a jobsite. Too heavy or too awkward for a van, but too small or too urgent to wait for a full flatbed to fill. Standard freight does not have a slot for it, so it stalls.
Too urgent to wait for a full flatbed
A standard flatbed has to fill before it rolls, and waiting on that can cost you a day or more. When a crew is standing by or a rig is down, that wait is the problem you are trying to solve.
It can't ride with just anyone
Construction, oilfield, equipment, steel. This freight punishes inexperience, and a damaged piece is a stopped job. It needs a driver who does open-deck loads for a living.
The jobsite is waiting on it
A dealer needs the part, a site needs the machine, a rig needs the piece. If it shows up late or you cannot say when it lands, work stops and the costs pile up behind it.
How Fello handles it
An open deck, on the road fast, in the right hands
Hotshot means a pickup pulling a gooseneck or flatbed trailer, dispatched for your load instead of waiting on one to fill. It is the fast, flexible answer for smaller heavy and oversized freight that construction, oilfield, equipment dealers, and steel move every day. We put it with drivers who run open-deck loads for a living, so it arrives ready to unload.
You get flatbed capability at hotshot speed, with a person on the load watching it move.
- A pickup with a gooseneck or flatbed trailer, dispatched for your load alone
- Fast rolling for smaller heavy and oversized freight, no waiting for a flatbed to fill
- Carriers vetted specifically for open-deck freight, not whoever answers first
- Built for construction, oilfield, equipment dealers, and steel
- Across all shipments, updated quarterly, 98.5% of pickups and 98.6% of deliveries land on time Last updated 06/30/2026
- Tracking where the carrier runs it, with a person who calls before it runs late
The Worry-Free Standard
What you get on every hotshot load
When a jobsite or a rig is waiting on your freight, an honest arrival time is worth as much as the speed. We hold the same standard on a single-piece hotshot as we do on a full flatbed, so you get a straight answer on where it is.
- Multiple ETA updates on every load, every day.
- Your driver on the phone, multiple times a day.
- Tracking where the carrier provides it, and a person watching the load either way.
- A real person reachable 24/7, nights and weekends included.
- If a load runs late, you hear it from us first, with a plan to fix it.
More small freight modes
Not sure hotshot is the right fit
Hotshot is built for smaller heavy and urgent loads. If your freight is lighter, or a few pallets headed somewhere without a dock, another mode may fit better.
LTL freight
The hub for smaller shipments, where we quote hotshot, box trucks, and standard LTL side by side and let you pick.
Back to LTLBox truck
For a few pallets going somewhere without a dock, on a 24 to 26 ft box truck with a liftgate at the curb.
Box truck freightSprinter van
For a small, urgent shipment that has to move now, on a dedicated van with no consolidation and no terminal stops.
Sprinter van freight
Talk to an expert
Get your load hotshot and rolling
Tell us the dimensions, the weight, and the deadline. We will line up a gooseneck or flatbed, put an experienced open-deck driver on it, and get it moving.