Waley runs six long-distance lanes out of Chicago on binding interstate flats starting at $2,990, all driven door-to-door by the same Waley crew that loads at the curb. No relay yard, no partner carrier interlined at the state line, no transfer to a truck Marcus has not signed off on. Reggie Brooks leads the long-haul work, drives the lanes himself, and the crew that puts the household goods into the truck in Chicago is the crew that takes them out at the destination.
The Indianapolis lane runs 185 miles down I-65 from the Kennedy onto the Borman through Gary, picking up I-65 South at the Indiana line and rolling into Marion, Hamilton or Hendricks counties by mid-afternoon on a normal load. Milwaukee is the shortest of our regular lanes — 95 miles up I-94 through North Chicago and Kenosha, parked at a downtown Milwaukee freight dock or a Bay View walk-up by lunch on a clean morning. Detroit is the longest single-day haul, 285 miles east on I-94 through Gary, South Bend and Kalamazoo, into Wayne, Oakland or Macomb county; we run that one with two drivers when the load is heavy or the destination has a tight property-management window.
The St. Louis lane runs 300 miles south on I-55 through Bloomington, Springfield and the Mississippi River bottoms, into the Central West End, the Hill, the Tower Grove blocks and the Soulard brick rowhouses. The Minneapolis lane is 410 miles up I-90 to Madison and then I-94 west into the Twin Cities, an overnight on most loads, and we time it to land in the Linden Hills, Uptown and St. Anthony Park neighborhoods on a morning unload window. The Cincinnati lane is 300 miles on I-65 and I-74 through the Indianapolis split, dropping into Hyde Park, Mount Adams, Over-the-Rhine or the Northern Kentucky riverfront.
Every lane is a binding flat. The figure Eddy writes on the walkthrough is the figure on the final invoice at the destination curb, with one Waley crew on the truck and one signature on the paperwork.