Longview sits where highways meet and where oilfield, hauling and local retail share the same roads. A low score does not stop an application.
Apply Now →Longview is the county seat of Gregg County, in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. highways 80 and 259 converge just north of the Sabine River. The 2020 census counted 81,638 residents, and Longview is the principal city of the Longview metropolitan statistical area, made up of Gregg, Upshur and Rusk counties. The city was established in 1870 and incorporated on May 17, 1871. Kilgore, White Oak and Gladewater are its closest neighbors.
Places where highways meet attract businesses that move things and serve the people moving them: hauling and trucking outfits, equipment and supply shops, oilfield service firms, and the restaurants, hotels and shops that serve field crews and travelers.
Those businesses rarely have a smooth month. A hauler has fuel and driver pay up front; an equipment supplier carries stock; a restaurant serving shift workers sees demand rise and fall with the work.
Fuel, insurance and drivers are weekly costs. Customers pay on their own terms. A single slow-paying account can drag a month.
Inventory is bought before orders arrive. A canceled or delayed order leaves cash sitting on a shelf.
Costs are fixed; revenue follows the work in the field and the traffic on the road. Gaps fall between busy periods, not at the end of them.
Long-haul trucking is hard to fund because of its cash-flow profile, and we make no promise for it. Local and regional operators are read on their own facts.
A Longview equipment supplier buys $20,000 of parts for a customer with an oilfield service contract. The customer is expected to pay in thirty days and pays in seventy. Meanwhile payroll and rent are $11,000 a month, and the owner has paid them partly from a personal card. These round numbers are invented for the example. They are not our terms, and not a prediction of what an offer would be.
The owner has an invoice that is real and a customer that is good for it. What is missing is the forty days. That is the problem working capital is built for.
It says a bill was paid late or a balance grew. It does not say whether your invoices are real, whether your customers are still buying, or whether your crew showed up. We cannot predict any outcome, but we think it is worth applying and letting the file speak.
Funding runs from $25,000 to $5,000,000, the application takes about five minutes, sole proprietors can apply, and funding can arrive in as little as 24 hours once available. A lower score can mean a smaller or more expensive offer. For more, see the Longview page, the Gregg County overview and the East Texas and Piney Woods hub, or apply now.
Location alone does not decide anything. What helps is describing how the business earns and what the money is for.
Describe the work and how you are paid. Oilfield businesses often have long invoice cycles, and that is a common reason owners look at working capital.
Yes.
The East Texas and Piney Woods page covers the wider area around Longview.
In as little as 24 hours once available.
Three months of business bank statements and a 5-minute application. FICO 500+ considered. $25,000 to $5,000,000, funded in as little as 24 hours.
Apply Now →It takes about two minutes and it will not affect your credit score.
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