SBA lending data · fiscal year 2025
23 lenders funded general freight trucking, long-distance, truckload in Illinois last year
174 SBA 7(a) loans approved under NAICS 484121. Median approval $97,500, median term 120 months, median initial rate 10%.
What was actually approved
Half of all approvals in this industry and state fell between $50,200 and $203,000. A request well outside that band is not impossible — it draws more scrutiny on collateral and management experience.
The most active lenders
Ranked by how many loans each actually approved in this industry and state — not by advertising spend. A lender that has written twenty of these already knows the questions to ask.
- 1The Huntington National Bank91 loans · $11.7M
- 2Northeast Bank25 loans · $4.3M
- 3Lendistry SBLC, LLC22 loans · $4.7M
- 4Heritage Bank Inc5 loans · $2.6M
- 5Fifth Third Bank5 loans · $0.4M
- 6JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association4 loans · $1.4M
- 7VelocitySBA, LLC4 loans · $5.5M
- 8Citizens Bank2 loans · $1.5M
- 9Merchants & Marine Bank2 loans · $0.6M
- 10Byline Bank1 loan · $2.2M
- 11Peoples Bank & Trust1 loan · $0.1M
- 12Devon Bank1 loan · $0.2M
This list is not a recommendation and these lenders have no relationship with this site. It reports approvals recorded in U.S. Small Business Administration, FOIA 7(a) and 504 loan approval data (data.sba.gov), fiscal year 2025, as of 2026-06-30.
Is this industry getting easier or harder to finance?
| Fiscal year | Loans | Lenders | Median approval |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 154 | 24 | $99,750 |
| FY2024 | 171 | 17 | $70,000 |
| FY2025 | 174 | 23 | $97,500 |
Only completed fiscal years are shown. The SBA fiscal year ends 30 September; a partial year compared against full ones makes any industry look like it is closing.
Where this comes from
The SBA publishes every approved 7(a) and 504 loan under FOIA: the lender, the borrower's state, the industry code, the amount, the term and the initial rate. We indexed 4 fiscal years of it, alongside Census and BLS data. Figures on this page are as published on 2026-06-30.
This page reports approvals. It says nothing about how many applications were declined, and it is not a prediction about yours. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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