Family-Run Out of Celina, Ohio · Since 1998

Steel. Scrap. Grain.On the truck. On time.

Forty-five trucks. Thirty-one drivers. One dispatcher per account — and a phone that gets answered. Piper Trucking has hauled the Midwest for two and a half decades, and we still pick up when you call.

Tractor on the highway at dusk
USDOT 776148 · MC 347544 · INTERSTATE
27Years on the Road
45Power Units
2.1MMiles Logged in 2023
DOTSatisfactory Since 2004
CELINA · OH INDIANAPOLIS CHICAGO DETROIT GRAND RAPIDS FORT WAYNE CINCINNATI LOUISVILLE COLUMBUS PITTSBURGH TOLEDO CLEVELAND NASHVILLE ST. LOUIS CELINA · OH INDIANAPOLIS CHICAGO DETROIT GRAND RAPIDS FORT WAYNE CINCINNATI LOUISVILLE COLUMBUS PITTSBURGH TOLEDO CLEVELAND NASHVILLE ST. LOUIS
What We Haul

Three lanes.
One standard.

We don't try to be everything. We're the carrier mid-size manufacturers, scrap yards, and grain elevators across the Midwest already trust by name.

General Freight
01

General Freight

Dry van and flatbed for regional manufacturers, distributors, and brokers across OH · IN · MI · KY · PA.

Dry Van · Flatbed · LTL & TL

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Scrap Metals
02

Scrap Metals

Heavy-haul service to scrap yards and steel mills. Side-dump and end-dump capable. Same dispatcher every load.

Open-top · End-Dump · Heavy Haul

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Grain & Ag
03

Grain & Ag

Hopper-bottom service to elevators, ethanol plants, and feed mills across the Corn Belt. Harvest-season scaled.

Hopper · Ag Lanes · Seasonal Surge

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Coverage

From Mercer County
to the Corn Belt.

Headquartered three and a half hours from Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Cincinnati alike. We run the lanes that nobody else feels like running — and the ones every shipper in the Midwest needs covered.

HQ · CELINA, OH
Regular lanes On-request HQ · Celina, OH

Lanes we run weekly

  • CELINA · OHINDIANAPOLIS · IN
  • CELINA · OHDETROIT · MI
  • CELINA · OHCHICAGO · IL
  • CELINA · OHLOUISVILLE · KY
  • CELINA · OHPITTSBURGH · PA
  • CELINA · OHNASHVILLE · TN
  • CELINA · OHST. LOUIS · MO
  • CELINA · OHCOLUMBUS · OH

Need a lane we don't list?
Call dispatch — odds are we've run it.

Why Piper

We're not the
biggest. We're
the one you call.

Mid-size Midwest shippers don't need a megacarrier. They need a real one — that picks up, shows up, and gets the load to the dock without a customer-success ticket in between.

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One Dispatcher Per Account

You get a person, not a portal. The same dispatcher learns your lanes, your shippers, and your weird-load history — and answers the phone when you call.

No call centers · No off-shore desks

02

Authority & Coverage on File

USDOT 776148 · MC 347544. Active common authority since 1998. $750,000 BI&PD primary through Canal Insurance. Certificate on request, same day.

Authorized For Hire · Interstate · Non-Hazmat

03

Owner-Operated. Not Outsourced.

Three generations of Pipers in Mercer County. We've been here since before email, and we plan on still being here when the kids take over.

45 power units · 31 drivers · Family LLC

Drive for Piper

Looking for a Midwest home?
We're hiring drivers.

Home most weekends. Late-model power. Same dispatcher every shift. Two–three years OTR, clean MVR, doubles-and-tankers a plus.

Got a load?
We've got the truck.

Quotes within the hour during business days. Same dispatcher every call. The number below is a real phone — and somebody on our team is going to answer it.