What Surge Transportation does

Surge Transportation is a Jacksonville, Florida-based freight brokerage founded in 2016 that arranges truckload capacity for shippers during peak-season demand surges. According to its firmographic profile, the company operates a fleet of trucks (or, more precisely given the brokerage model, accesses carrier capacity) to serve large shippers that need overflow transportation when their contracted capacity is insufficient. The firm is privately held and operates with a small employee base of 11-50 people, consistent with an asset-light brokerage rather than an asset-heavy carrier.

The business model is a classic spot/surge brokerage: Surge monetizes by intermediating between shippers with excess demand during peak periods and carriers with available capacity, earning the spread on each load. There is no evidence of proprietary technology, digital platform, or contracted recurring revenue; the short description frames the service as transportation provision via a fleet of trucks carrying large shippers' overflow freight during peak season. No customer logos, shipper verticals, lane coverage, or pricing structure is disclosed in the available source material.

The operating footprint is concentrated in the United States, headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, with no disclosed multi-market or international presence. The company's website (surgetransportation.com) was inaccessible at the time of source capture (anti-bot verification page), and there is no public funding history, M&A activity, executive team information, partnership data, or product roadmap available. As a result, while the firm's category and basic profile are established, almost every dimension beyond firmographics — revenue, customer base, technology stack, growth signals — is unverifiable from the supplied data.

Name

Surge Transportation

Website

https://surgetransportation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Surge Transportation is a Jacksonville, Florida-based freight brokerage founded in 2016 that arranges truckload capacity for large shippers with excess demand during peak season, operating as an asset-light intermediary with an 11-50 person team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Jacksonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Surge Transportation provides truckload transportation services through its own fleet of trucks, targeting large shippers that require excess freight capacity during peak shipping seasons. The company addresses overflow and surge freight demand that shippers cannot move through their regular carrier base.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Truckload Freight Transportation Provision of truckload transportation services via a dedicated fleet of trucks to large shippers requiring excess capacity during peak shipping seasons.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• J.B. Hunt Transport Services: One of the largest US truckload and intermodal carriers with a vast fleet and enterprise shipper relationships. Directly comparable business model (asset-based freight transport) but at vastly greater scale and service breadth.
• Knight-Swift Transportation: Largest US truckload carrier following the U.S. Xpress acquisition. Operates an extensive TL fleet serving large national shippers — the same customer base Surge targets, but with significantly more capacity, network density, and balance-sheet strength.
• Schneider National: Major asset-based truckload, intermodal, and logistics provider with deep enterprise shipper relationships. Comparable in serving large shippers with full truckload capacity, but with much broader service offerings and scale.
• Werner Enterprises: Major dedicated and one-way truckload carrier serving large enterprise customers including retail and consumer goods shippers. Operates a large asset-based fleet comparable in business model to Surge but with materially greater scale and dedicated-contract business.
• Hub Group: Large intermodal and logistics services provider with truck brokerage and dedicated capacity offerings. Comparable as a multi-modal capacity provider to enterprise shippers, particularly via its Jacksonville-area intermodal presence.
• ArcBest: LTL carrier with significant asset-light truckload brokerage and logistics services. Competes for similar enterprise shipper budgets and offers capacity-flexing solutions comparable to Surge's peak-season value proposition.

Direct peers

• C.H. Robinson Worldwide: Largest US third-party logistics/freight broker arranging truckload capacity for enterprise shippers. Directly comparable go-to-market (matching shipper surge demand with capacity), though primarily non-asset while Surge operates its own fleet.
• Heartland Express: Mid-sized irregular-route truckload carrier with a similar asset-based model and customer profile. Most directly comparable on business model and size tier, though Heartland is publicly traded and materially larger.
• Marten Transport: Mid-sized asset-based truckload and intermodal carrier serving consumer goods, retail, and manufacturing shippers. Similar asset-based business model and enterprise shipper focus; provides a useful size-and-model comparison point for Surge.
• RXO (Coyote Logistics): Asset-light freight brokerage and last-mile provider that matches shipper demand with carrier capacity. Direct competitor for the 'surge capacity for large shippers' use case, but operates as a non-asset digital brokerage at much greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/surgetransport
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/surgetransportation

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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