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Find logistics companies by fleet, lane, and hiring signal

Carrier, broker, and third-party logistics are three businesses wearing one word. Sorting them is the first job, because your product fits one and not the others.

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Ask what the company owns. A carrier owns trucks and hires drivers. A broker owns relationships and hires sales. A warehouse operator owns space and hires pickers. Each one shows up differently in job postings, on the site, and in the way the business describes itself to customers.

That is why hiring does most of the qualifying work here. TheirStack reads the postings, People Data Labs gives headcount and locations, and Open Web Ninja finds terminals and warehouses carrying a local listing. Blitz API opens the contact chain with LeadMagic behind it.

Example searches

Ask for it the way you'd say it

Every search below runs on the same hosted Tables, with the cost previewed before anything is spent.

  • Carrier or broker

    freight companies in the southeast that are hiring drivers rather than sales reps

    The posting mix separates asset carriers from brokerages more reliably than anything a company writes on its own homepage.

  • Warehouse footprint

    third party logistics providers with more than three warehouse locations

    Facilities arrive as rows under one company, so a regional operator reads as one account with several sites underneath it.

  • The operations owner

    find the vp of operations or the director of transportation at each company

    Dispatch and safety leads resolve here too, which matters when the operations seat is the one actually holding the budget.

Plays

Three motions you can run this week

Each one is a chain of Oxygen primitives — the same hosted objects your workspace already has, composed.

  • Sort the three business models

    Carriers, brokers, and warehouse operators end up in three segments, not one list.

    1. Tables
    2. Knowledge Graph
    3. Tags
    1. 1Classify each company from its postings and site copy against definitions you wrote first.
    2. 2Tag the result so every later run inherits the split instead of redoing it.
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  • Terminal and warehouse map

    A regional operator becomes one account with every site attached to it.

    1. Tables
    2. Records
    1. 1Expand facilities into rows and link them to the company record above them.
    2. 2Work the site nearest the rep and keep corporate contacts on the parent.
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  • Hiring volume as a size proxy

    You rank by growth without waiting for a fleet number nobody publishes.

    1. Signals
    2. Tables
    3. Records
    1. 1Track posting counts per company over time so the trend becomes a dated column.
    2. 2Sort the table on the trend, save that view, and promote only the band you want to work.
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Who you can reach

Roles you can find at carriers, brokers, and 3PLs

Reachability is per channel: a role marked for mobile is one the phone waterfall usually resolves, not a guarantee for every record.

RoleSeniorityReachable by
OwnerOwner/FounderWork emailMobile
VP of OperationsVPWork emailLinkedIn
Director of transportationDirectorWork emailLinkedIn
Fleet managerManagerWork emailMobile
Dispatch managerManagerWork emailMobile
Head of safety and complianceDirectorWork emailLinkedIn
Warehouse operations managerManagerWork email

Filters you can search on

  • Carrier, broker, or logistics provider
  • Fleet size band where published
  • Lanes and regions served
  • Warehouse and terminal count
  • Open driver, dispatch, or sales roles
  • Specialization such as refrigerated or flatbed
  • Systems named in job postings
  • Years operating

Company data and facilities resolve well. Fleet size is rarely published directly, so it is inferred from hiring volume, terminal count, and the language on a careers page. Owner-operators and very small carriers are visible as listings but thin on named contacts.

Data sources

What the data actually comes from

Every value lands with its provider and cost recorded on the cell.

  • People Data Labs

    Company records with headcount, locations, and the operations titles inside them.

  • Op

    Open Web Ninja

    Listings for terminals, yards, and warehouses trading under a local address.

  • TheirStack

    Job postings, which separate an asset carrier from a brokerage faster than any description.

  • Blitz API

    Work email for operations and transportation leaders, read from the company's own profiles.

  • LeadMagic

    Mobile numbers for dispatch and fleet managers, who live on a phone rather than in an inbox.

Run these on Oxygen's managed credits, or connect your own provider keys and pay the vendor directly — the same columns, the same runs, the same provenance either way. See every integration.

Limits

Where this stops

  • Fleet size is not a published field in most markets. Every size number here is inferred from hiring, facilities, and a company's own careers copy, so keep it as a band and confirm it in conversation.

FAQ

Questions people ask first

How do you tell a carrier from a broker?
By what they hire. Driver and mechanic postings mean assets on the road; recruiter and carrier sales postings mean a brokerage. Site copy usually agrees once you know what to look for.
Can I filter by lane?
By region and terminal footprint, yes. Specific lane data is commercial and unpublished, so use the regions a company advertises and the locations it operates from as the proxy.
What is the best trigger in this market?
A hiring burst. Logistics companies staff ahead of volume, so a sudden rise in driver or dispatch postings puts you in front of an operations team already changing something.
Do owner-operators show up?
As listings, yes, usually with a phone number and no named contact. They deserve a separate segment worked by phone rather than a place in the main list.
How do I handle multi-site operators?
Link the facilities to one company record and let territory assignment run off the site row. The account stays whole in reporting while a rep still works something local.
Can I see what a run cost afterwards?
Yes. Every column run records credits, provider, and errors per row, so the cost of a list is inspectable after the fact instead of appearing as one line on an invoice.

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