Lombard, Illinois · Since 1991
Truckload and limited LTL on Fox trucks inside 45 miles of Chicago. Single or team drivers, more than 5,000 contracted carriers and rail for everything farther.
Dispatch
Every shipment is tracked and traced, and you hear how it is going the way you prefer: phone, text or email.
Quotes
Email a quote request and dispatch replies within the hour. Or call 630-261-0800.
From all of us at Fox
We’re thankful for our customers, carriers, drivers and dock crews who keep Chicagoland moving. Wishing you and your family a safe and happy holiday.
Trucking from LombardFox Brothers Transfer, at the same terminal near I-355 and North Avenue.
Around ChicagoTruckload and limited LTL on Fox trucks inside that ring.
Under contractEach with its own authority, a steady service record and sound finances.
Or fewerCall Fox Brothers and someone answers within two rings.
Two ways we move freight
Fox is two companies under one roof in Lombard. One runs trucks around Chicago. The other finds capacity for everything that has to travel farther.
Our own trucks and our own drivers on Chicagoland pickups and deliveries: full truckloads, plus limited LTL.
Freight headed out of the area moves with a carrier we have vetted, or by rail when the lane calls for it.
The 45-mile ring
The Lombard terminal sits near I-355 and North Avenue. Everything within 45 miles of Chicago runs on Fox Brothers equipment. Freight headed farther rides with a contracted carrier, single or team, or goes by rail.
Home base
The terminal sits near I-355 and North Avenue in Lombard, with I-88, I-290 and I-294 all a short run away. That puts O'Hare, the western suburbs and the city within easy reach of a local run.
Why shippers call Fox
Every Fox Brothers driver holds hazardous materials certification, so a regulated load does not mean hunting for a qualified driver.
Someone answers your call within two rings, every shipment is tracked and traced, and updates come the way you want them: phone, text or email.
Fox Brothers carries high value insurance, so your freight is covered while it rides with us.
Every carrier under contract has its own operating authority, a record of consistent service and sound finances, plus $1,000,000 liability and $100,000 cargo coverage.
More than three decades working out of the same Lombard terminal: the docks, the expressways and the timing of a Chicago day are familiar ground.
Who runs Fox
Decades of Chicagoland freight, from the cab to the dock.
Tom Fox was a man who saw 4am more than anyone I’ve ever known. As a kid his high school gym teacher somehow found out how many hours he was working at a pizza place and let him go behind the bleachers and sleep each day, giving him a passing mark for gym class anyway. He then went on to start working in Transportation Management at around 19. He learned the business from the ground up, hand-loading trailers, driving forklifts, driving tractor-trailers and putting in more overtime than anyone could count. He was the guy who didn’t mind living at work because his work was his life. He was the guy where if he knew you liked something and he liked you, he wanted to give you a million of those things, whatever they were. How lucky was I as a kid to have this guy as my Dad? He brought me like half a pallet of bubble gum once when I was 10. When I was in the Navy he mailed me 3000 chocolate chip cookies, and he did things like this for other people too, not just his kid. We’re very lucky here to carry on what he started. We should all strive to be like Tom Fox. We lost someone great when he passed away and I think about him every day.
— Dan Fox
Carriers get paid the same day the shipment delivers, with no quick pay deductions. Guaranteed.
Request a quote
Dispatch sorts out the rest: our own trucks inside the 45-mile ring, a vetted carrier or rail beyond it.