Kansas to Michigan Freight shipping and trucking services are in high demand; Kansas City to Grand Rapids is a very heavily traveled route.
The Kansas City, KS to Grand Rapids, MI shipping lane is a 660 mile haul that takes more than 10 hours of driving to complete. Shipping from Kansas to Michigan ranges from a minimum of 587 miles and 9 hours from Overland Park, KS to St Joseph, MI, to over 1,334 miles and a minimum of 20 hours on the road from Richfield, KS to Cheboygan, MI. The shortest route from Kansas to Michigan is along the US-36 E & I-55 N corridor; however, there’s also a more southerly route that uses the I-70 E & I-57, passing through Columbia, MO instead of Springfield, IL.
Kansas Freight Shipping & Trucking
Kansas’ reputation as America’s heartland is well deserved. Equidistant from both the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States is located in Smith County, Kansas, near the city of Lebanon. Home to legendary Old West cow town Dodge City and part of the historic Santa Fe Trail, Kansas is bordered by Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado and Missouri and shares with Missouri its most populous area—the Kansas part of Kansas City, which straddles the state line.
The manufacturing sector is responsible for much of Kansas’ industry, with the aerospace industry making up the majority of the state’s manufacturing jobs. Spirit Aero systems and Cessna are two of the best-known aerospace manufacturers in the state. Other well-known industrial names that call Kansas home include Sprint-Nextel, General Motors and Garmin. Oil and natural gas are other major industries in Kansas; the state ranks 8th in the nation for production of both resources.
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Michigan Freight Shipping Quotes and Trucking Rates
Michigan, the Great Lakes State, is made up of two peninsulas surrounded by the world’s largest freshwater lakes. Southeast Michigan, the most densely populated part of the state, is home to the Detroit Metro Area and the American automotive industry. Further north, there’s lumber, mining and furniture manufacturing. Michigan borders Ontario, Canada to the east and north, across lakes Huron and Superior. Indiana and Ohio are to the south, and Illinois and Wisconsin are to the west, across Lake Michigan. Detroit is approximately 300 miles east of Chicago and 250 miles west of Toronto, Canada. Michigan is warm and humid in the summer, cold and snowy in the winter. Michigan’s climate sometimes causes delays in trucking.
Kansas to Michigan Freight shipping quotes and trucking rates vary at times due to the individual states industry needs. Since Kansas is largely agricultural, and Michigan is mainly industrial, with many food processing and distribution centers, we see plenty of shipments by refrigerated trailer, flatbed as well as by the more common dry van trucks. Our Less Than Truckload (LTL) carriers in both Kansas and Michigan are also running a number of regular services between the two states, and it’s an active route for heavy haul freight shipments, as well.
