Right-Sized Freight · Canada & USA
Too big for LTL, not enough to justify a full trailer. Hot shot freight puts your shipment on a dedicated truck and trailer sized for the job, moving direct from pickup to delivery with no consolidation stops. It sits in the gap right above our LTL freight services, for loads that have outgrown shared trailer space but don’t need a full one.
Up to 16,500 lbs
one truck, one trailer, no waiting on a full load
98.7%
On-time delivery
500+
Monthly Shipments Coordinated
24/7
Live tracking
99.99%
Operational Reliability
Between LTL and FTL
Hot shot freight fills the gap between less-than-truckload and full truckload shipping. Instead of a 53-foot trailer, a hot shot load moves on a medium-duty truck (the kind that pulls a gooseneck or flatbed trailer) dedicated entirely to your shipment. There’s no consolidation with other freight, no terminal handling, and no waiting for a trailer to fill before it leaves. The tradeoff for that directness is capacity: hot shot loads typically top out around 16,500 pounds, so it’s built for a single piece of equipment, a pallet or two, or an oddly shaped load, not the trailer’s worth of pallet freight shipping a standard LTL or FTL lane carries. It started in industries like oil and gas, where a piece of equipment failing at a remote wellsite couldn’t wait for a scheduled route, and it’s since spread to construction, agriculture and manufacturing wherever a load doesn’t fit neatly into LTL or FTL.
How The Equipment Is Chosen
Not every hot shot load needs the same rig. A gooseneck flatbed handles heavy equipment and construction materials with the stability to carry real weight over distance. A bumper-pull trailer covers lighter loads at a lower cost when the extra capacity of a gooseneck isn’t needed. An enclosed van or box truck protects freight that shouldn’t be exposed to weather, or that carries enough value to warrant it, much like our reliable sprinter van freight shipping does for smaller, weather-sensitive loads. Whichever setup fits, the load travels with a single driver from pickup to delivery, no handoffs, no transfer to a different vehicle partway through, which keeps both the handling risk and the paperwork down to one truck and one trip.
Our services
Matched to the load, whether it needs an open deck or a closed one.
Flatbed & Gooseneck Hot Shot
Open-deck hauling for loads that need real weight capacity and easy loading access, and if you already have a loaded trailer ready to go, that same capacity can move as power only freight services instead.
Enclosed & Van Hot Shot
Covered transport for loads that need protection from the elements or extra security.
Industries
Different job sites, same problem: a load too specific for standard freight.
Oil & Gas
Construction
Automotive & Manufacturing
Retail Logistics
Events & Entertainment
Renewable Energy
A drilling site waiting on a single failed part and a construction crew waiting on one piece of machinery both need the same thing hot shot freight was built for: a dedicated truck that goes straight there, without waiting on anything else to fill out the trailer, and when even that timeline is too slow, our air freight services solutions can close the gap further.
What To Expect
Built around the two things that matter when a shipment can’t be late: speed of dispatch and certainty once it’s moving.
The same driver stays with your shipment from pickup to delivery, no handoffs partway through.
The truck and trailer are chosen for your shipment’s weight and shape, not the other way around.
Freight moves direct, with no reweigh, reclassification dispute, or consolidation stop.
Rural and remote job sites are reached the same as any standard delivery address.
Visibility from pickup to delivery, no calling in for a status update.
Canada-USA hot shot dispatch, with customs documentation handled as part of booking.
Pricing
Hot shot rates come down to weight, distance and equipment, not a flat per-load fee.
What the load actually weighs and its footprint
Scheduled in advance versus dispatched same-day
Tell us what's moving and where, we'll match the right truck and trailer to it.
Off The Spot Market, For Good
“We had one piece of drilling equipment that needed to get to a site with no real road access. A full trailer would have been overkill and LTL wasn’t an option out there. ENorth’s gooseneck setup got it there directly, no fuss.”
Field Operations Manager
Oil & Gas, Hamilton
“Our job sites change every few weeks and we’re constantly moving single pieces of equipment that don’t justify booking a full truckload. Hot shot through ENorth has become our default for exactly that kind of load.“
Project Manager
Construction, Vaughan
Quick Answers
Generally anything up to about 16,500 lbs that doesn't need a full 53-foot trailer, commonly equipment, machinery, or a small number of pallets.
No. That's the point of the service, it's built for loads too small to justify a full trailer but too specific for standard LTL.
Yes. Smaller, more maneuverable equipment can access rural and remote locations that standard freight routes often can't.
Hot shot is about matching the right equipment to an odd-sized load, planned or not. Emergency delivery is specifically for unplanned, urgent dispatch. The two overlap sometimes, an emergency shipment might move on hot shot equipment, but hot shot freight itself isn't only for emergencies.
Yes, including Canada-USA dispatch with customs documentation handled as part of the booking.
Same-day dispatch is available, and scheduled hot shot loads can also be booked in advance if the timeline is known ahead of time.
That requirement applies to the driver operating the truck, not to you as the shipper. Whether a CDL is required depends on the combined weight of the truck and trailer, which our team accounts for when assigning equipment.
A gooseneck trailer offers more stability and weight capacity, better suited to heavier equipment, while a bumper-pull trailer is lighter-duty and more cost-effective for smaller loads. Which one you need depends on your shipment's weight and dimensions.
Get a dedicated truck and trailer matched to your load, moving directly with no consolidation stops.
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