Dry Van
53' dry vans for general freight across the Midwest — palletized goods, packaged consumer products, and dock-to-dock loads.
Best For
- Palletized Freight
- Consumer Goods
- Dock-to-Dock
- Drop Trailer
Trucking · Hartford, WI Fleet
Midwest Freight, Hauled by a Family-Owned Fleet
Asset-based, family-owned trucking out of Hartford, Wisconsin. Dry vans, flatbeds, step decks, and Conestogas moving freight across the Midwest.
A Laufer Enterprise Company
Asset-based trucking
Overview
Asset-based. Family-owned. Hartford, WI.
Laufer Trucking is an asset-based, family-owned Wisconsin trucking company hauling freight across the Midwest with dry vans, flatbeds, step decks, and Conestogas. We own our trucks and trailers, employ our own drivers, and dispatch every load from our Hartford, WI headquarters.
That means when you call us for a quote, you're talking to the carrier that's actually going to move the freight — not a broker reselling someone else's capacity.
Midwest Freight · Asset-Based
What We Haul / Equipment
Our fleet covers the four trailer types that handle the vast majority of Midwest freight. Each equipment type has its own page with more detail:
Flatbed
48' and 53' open flatbeds for steel, building materials, machinery, and anything that won't fit inside a van.
Best For
- Steel & Metals
- Building Materials
- Machinery
- Oversize
Step Deck
Drop-deck trailers for taller loads that won't legally clear on a flat — equipment, tanks, and bulky machinery.
Best For
- Tall Loads
- Equipment Moves
- Machinery
- Construction
Conestoga
Curtain-side trailers that protect flatbed freight from the weather while keeping side-load access for forklifts.
Best For
- Weather-Sensitive
- Side-Loaded Freight
- Coatings & Paint
- Steel Coils
Hartford, Wisconsin · Since 1976
What Makes Laufer Different
Three things, mostly.
- 01
Asset-Based
We own the trucks and trailers and employ the drivers. No brokering your load to whoever's cheapest this week.
- 02
Family-Owned
Independent and Hartford-run for decades — no private-equity owner, no out-of-state HQ, no offshore call center.
- 03
Responsive
Quote and freight inquiries back in 15 minutes during business hours. If anything changes on the road, you hear it from us first.
Drop Trailer Program
A trailer at your dock. Ready when you are.
We spot a Laufer trailer at your facility and you load on your own schedule — a few pallets at a time, over a full shift, even up to 24 hours. When it's full, we pull it and drop the next one. No driver waiting on your dock, no scrambling for capacity.
It also doubles as overflow staging space: if your floor is tight, the trailer itself absorbs the extra pallets while you're building the load.
Best fit for
- Slow-load operations that take hours to fill a trailer
- Shippers with tight floor or staging space
- High-volume customers who need consistent, always-on capacity
"We work around your operation, not the other way around. The big national carriers won't park a trailer at your Hartford dock and wait on your schedule. We will."
Krista LauferAssistant Vice President, Laufer Trucking
Where We Run
Based in Hartford, Wisconsin — about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee — running Wisconsin and the surrounding Midwest as our primary footprint.
The Laufer Family
Three companies. One family. One Hartford address.
Laufer Trucking, Wacker Drive Logistics, and LT2 Logistics each operate independently — but they share the same ownership, the same values, and the same commitment to doing what they say they're going to do.
Whatever your freight needs, chances are the right solution is under this roof.