For freight brokers, agents, and 3PL sales teams
Find shippers in the towns along your lanes.
Pick one kind of shipper, such as metal fabricators, sawmills, or food processors, and search the towns on a lane in one bulk search, within your plan's daily city budget and lead balance. Each phone is checked for line type, so a small shop's mobile stands out from a switchboard or toll-free desk. Every email we find is verified.
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| Business | Category | City | Owner | Phone 1 | Email 1 | Website | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPCarrow Precision Machining | Machine shop | Anderson | — | (864) 555-0158Landline | [email protected]risky | carrowprecision.com | 9 |
| SHSorrell Hill Foods | Food manufacturer | Greenville | Teresa Delgado | (864) 555-0149Landline | — | sorrellhillfoods.com | 0 |
| RPRidgefold Packaging | Packaging company | Greer | — | (864) 555-0107Landline | [email protected]safe | ridgefoldpackaging.com | 12 |
| HLHughes & Lyle Fabrication | Metal fabricator | Spartanburg | Darnell Hughes | (864) 555-0131Mobile | [email protected]safe | hugheslylefab.com | 41 |
| LFLower Fork Pallet & Crate | Pallet supplier | Gaffney | — | (864) 555-0176Mobile | — | — | 5 |
| VAVenn & Aldridge Plastics | Plastic fabrication company | Gastonia | — | (704) 555-0122VoIP | [email protected]safe | vennaldridge.com | 18 |
A bulk search for manufacturers in six towns along I-85, from Anderson, SC, to Gastonia, NC. Sample rows: fictional businesses, reserved 555 numbers.
Finding shippers is a list problem before it's a sales one.
The big shippers buy through procurement
Large shippers award lanes in annual bids run by procurement, and each plant then tenders loads by the routing guide those bids produce. The opening is at small and mid-size shippers, where the owner, a plant manager, or a shipping clerk often books the trucks, and they're spread across the small towns your lanes run through.
Lane lists get built one town at a time
Scrolling the map, driving industrial parks, and checking satellite views for dock doors all work, but each covers one town at a time. The dozens of towns between your origin and destination rarely get the attention your home market does.
A bought list rings the wrong desk
A directory or bought list gives you a company name, a main line, and an email nobody has checked lately. You learn on the dial that the line is a toll-free sales desk or a call-tracking number, and the quote email bounces before a shipping clerk ever sees it.
From a lane on the map to a dial list in Close.
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List the towns on the lane
Take a lane you already run and list its towns: for I-85 from the South Carolina Upstate into North Carolina, that could be Anderson, Greenville, Greer, Spartanburg, Gaffney, and Gastonia. Type each one, such as "Greer, SC," pick the match, and add it to one bulk search: up to 250 towns, within your plan's daily city budget and as many as your lead balance can cover, with a business found in two towns delivered once.
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Search by what ships, one keyword per run
The keyword is free text, so match it to the freight you move: "machine shop" for LTL and partials, "metal fabricator" or "sawmill" for flatbed, "meat processor" or "produce wholesaler" for reefer. Each town returns up to about 300 businesses per keyword, usually fewer in a small town. Results fill in over the following minutes while each website is crawled and each email and phone is checked.
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Cut it to shippers and split by channel
Drop the home-improvement and hardware stores a lumber search picks up, then split the rest with saved views: an owner on a mobile goes to the call list, a safe inbox with no mobile goes to email. Open a lead to read the pages we crawled; a product line or "we ship nationwide" says more than the category does. A saved view works on every lane you search, and filtering leads you already have costs nothing.
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Export to Close and dial from a Smart View
Connect Close once, and each business becomes a Close lead with a contact carrying the owner's name, Phone 1, and Email 1. Phone 1 Type isn't sent by default, so map it once to a new custom field in the export dialog, then build a Smart View where that field is mobile and run Close's Power Dialer through it (it needs Close's Growth or Scale plan).
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Schedule the lanes you're working
Schedule a lane weekly or monthly, up to 25 towns per automation (as many as your lead balance can cover on each run), with Close as the destination; each run uses the field mapping your latest manual Close export saved, so keep Phone 1 Type mapped whenever you export by hand. Every run is a fresh search charged per lead delivered, including shippers you already have, and it sends the whole result, not a saved view, so schedule only the lanes you're working. Re-exports update each Close lead in place, matched on Google's business ID, and leave its contacts, notes, and activity alone.
What a row tells you before you dial a shipper.
A mobile, a switchboard, or a sales desk
Up to 3 phones per business, the Google listing's number plus any on the website, each checked for line type and phone carrier. At a small shop a mobile is most likely the owner's own phone, a landline usually rings the office, VoIP is often a switchboard or call-tracking line, and toll-free usually reaches a sales or customer-service desk.
The owner, who often books the freight
At a small plant or yard, the owner often decides who hauls the freight, or knows who does. We give you their name where we can identify one, usually because the company's own website names them. It's a name only, with no title, personal email, or phone, and only a fraction of rows have one; listings with no website almost never do.
Shared inboxes, each one verified
We find up to 3 emails per business, only on its own website, and most are shared inboxes like sales@, office@, or info@. Every email we find is verified and labeled safe, risky, invalid, or unknown, so the first send goes to confirmed mailboxes and catch-all domains get a smaller batch you watch.
Category as a stand-in for freight
We don't know what a business ships, how often, or on what equipment. The primary Google category is the closest stand-in: Metal fabricator, Saw mill, Food manufacturer, and Wholesaler each suggest a kind of freight, and a saved view drops the retail storefronts a search picks up.
The address, to tell a plant from a sales office
The street address comes from the Google listing. An address in an industrial park often means a dock you can load from; a suite in an office building is more likely a sales office whose freight ships from somewhere else, so ask where product ships from. Show the Address column before a CSV export, or use Excel.
The pages that say what they make
We crawl the homepage and a few inner pages, contact and quote pages first. Product lines, a second plant, or "we ship nationwide" are readable in the lead detail, and the first three pages' text goes out in an Excel download or a Google Sheets export; a Close export carries it only if you map the Page columns. Page text can't be filtered, so treat it as research for the call.
Saved views that split a lane into calls and emails.
Filters you can build in a minute and save as a view, then apply to any search or to your whole lead library.
Owner on a mobile
- where Owner is not empty
- and Phone 1 Type is Mobile
At a small shipper the owner often books the freight or knows who does, and a main number that's a mobile is most likely their own phone; to catch mobiles listed second or third, save copies that use Phone 2 Type or Phone 3 Type instead. Mobiles carry stricter calling rules, so scrub this list before anyone dials it.
Email first: safe inbox, no mobile
- where Email 1 Status is Safe
- and Phone 1 Type is not Mobile
- and Phone 2 Type is not Mobile
- and Phone 3 Type is not Mobile
With no mobile to call, the confirmed inbox goes first. Send the one-load email, then call the main line and ask who books the outbound trucks.
Yards, not big-box stores
- where Category does not contain home improvement
- and Category does not contain hardware
A lumber or building-materials search along a lane also returns home-improvement and hardware stores, whose freight is usually booked by a chain or a distributor, not at the store. These two rules keep the yards, mills, and suppliers.
What ships from the towns along your lane.
Manufacturers and machine shops
Production runs put freight on the dock on a schedule: finished goods out by the truckload, parts and small orders out LTL or as partials. Small plants and job shops are often owner-run, so this is where an owner's name and a mobile matter most. Ask who controls the outbound freight; if their customers route it, the decision sits with the customer, not the plant.
- Manufacturer
- Metal fabricator
- Machine shop
- Plastic fabrication company
- Furniture manufacturer
- Cabinet maker
- Pallet supplier
- Packaging company
Wholesale distributors and warehouses
Distributors buy in bulk and ship out in smaller lots, so freight moves in both directions, and a public warehouse can hold product for several shippers at once. For drayage, search the towns around a port or rail ramp. If you sell warehousing or fulfillment, the distributors and importers here are your prospects too, and the conversation is about space, not trucks.
- Wholesaler
- Distribution service
- Warehouse
- Beverage distributor
- Steel distributor
- Industrial equipment supplier
- Importer
Building materials and lumber
Flatbed and step-deck freight: lumber from sawmills to yards, and block, stone, and pavers out to other yards and job sites. Many yards run their own trucks for local delivery, so ask where they need outside capacity, such as longer hauls and inbound loads from the mill. A saved view drops the home-improvement and hardware stores these searches also return.
- Building materials supplier
- Lumber store
- Saw mill
- Stone supplier
- Concrete product supplier
- Roofing supply store
- Landscaping supply store
Food processors, farms, nurseries, and feed
Reefer, dry van, and seasonal freight: processors and packers ship refrigerated, frozen, and dry product, nursery stock moves hardest in spring, and feed mills and grain elevators move bagged and bulk loads. Many rural shippers have no website, which means no crawled email or owner name, but the phone on the Google listing is still checked for line type, so plan on calling.
- Food manufacturer
- Meat processor
- Produce wholesaler
- Wholesale plant nursery
- Tree farm
- Feed manufacturer
- Grain elevator
- Agricultural cooperative
Ask for one load to quote, not the whole account.
Hi {Owner},
I'm [Your name] with [Your company], a freight brokerage (MC/USDOT [number]). We move [equipment] freight on [your lane], and {City} sits on that run.
I'm not asking {Business} to switch carriers. I'd like to quote one load: the next one your regular carrier can't cover, or one on a lane where rates have climbed. You'd have a second price to compare and a number to call when a truck falls through.
If outbound freight isn't yours to arrange, who at {Business} books the trucks? A name is all I need.
If you'd rather not hear from me, reply "no" and I won't write again.
[Your name] [Your company] · [Your phone] [Your postal address]
Why it works
- Lead with your MC or USDOT number and a lane you actually run: a shipper can look the number up in FMCSA's public records, which does more than any adjective.
- {Owner} is a full name, so trim it to a first name. When it's blank, open with "Hi all," and send it to the shared inbox as written; the third paragraph already asks who books the trucks.
- Ask for one load, not the account: a shipper happy with their carrier can still take a second price without switching anything. If you sell warehousing, offer to quote their overflow space instead.
Before you send
Brokering interstate freight generally requires FMCSA broker authority, your own or, as an agent, your brokerage's. For outreach, CAN-SPAM covers commercial email, and calls and texts can fall under the TCPA and federal and state do-not-call rules, which are stricter for mobile numbers like the ones this page suggests calling first. LeadMarina doesn't scrub numbers against do-not-call lists or certify compliance, so check the rules that apply to you before you send or dial.
Words in {braces} are columns in your export; words in [brackets] are yours to fill in.
Send them where you already work.
Download a CSV or Excel file, or send leads straight to the tools below. Re-exports to a CRM update the records already there instead of duplicating them.
Frequently asked questions
Can I filter by shipping volume, lanes, or equipment type?
No. LeadMarina finds businesses from Google business listings data, so it doesn't know what a business ships, how often, on what equipment, or to where. Category is the closest stand-in, review count is only a rough proxy for how established a business is, and the crawled pages can say what a plant makes. Volume, lanes, and who controls the freight are questions for the call.
Will I get the shipping or logistics manager's name?
No. We don't return people by title or role. You get the owner's name where we can identify one, usually from the company's own website, and at a small shipper that is often the person who picks the carrier or knows who does. Otherwise, ask whoever answers who books the outbound trucks.
Can I search a radius around an origin city, or a stretch of interstate?
Not as a radius or a stretch of road. Locations are places like cities, so you list the towns along the lane and run them as one bulk search: up to 250 cities, within your plan's daily city budget, and as many as your lead balance can cover. The REST API and the MCP server search one city per call.
How many businesses come back per town?
Up to about 300 per keyword in each town, and small towns usually return fewer. In a big metro a dense keyword can hit that ceiling, so split it into suburbs or keyword variants such as "metal fabricator," "steel fabricator," and "welder." Not every result ships freight, which is what the category filters and the crawled pages are for.
Can I see which shippers already use a broker or a routing guide?
No. Nothing in the row names a freight carrier, broker, TMS, or routing guide, and we don't infer one. Ask who books the outbound trucks and whether they tender from a routing guide; at a small plant it's often the owner or a shipping clerk working a short list of carriers.
Does it connect to my TMS or CRM?
Close, GoHighLevel, and Google Sheets connect directly, and re-exports update records in place instead of duplicating them. Other systems, a TMS included, take the CSV or Excel file through their own importer where they have one, and the REST API is on every plan. Show the Address column before a CSV export; the default CSV leaves the street address out, while Excel carries every column.
- B2B and SaaS sales teamsTerritory lists by vertical and city, with every email we find verified and each phone checked for line type, delivered to Close, Google Sheets, or your stack over the API.
- M&A and business acquisitionMap a fragmented niche across a region, qualify operators on public signals, and reach owners through verified emails and phones checked for line type.
- Vending and ATM operatorsFind laundromats, auto shops, bars, and break rooms across the towns on your route, set aside the obvious chains, and see which numbers are mobiles before you call.
Search one town on your lane, free.
100 free leads, no credit card. Search one kind of shipper in a town your lanes run through, and check each number's line type before you dial.
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