"Well, ya see, I'm not saying that I've been everywhere and I've done everything, but I do know it's a pretty amazing world we live in here, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we're alone in THIS universe... Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the sun squalls, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' solar storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
Between the big interstellar freighters like the Conestoga and the little harbor tenders like the L-9 there sits the short-haulers like the Freightliner FLC, running the routes out to the LaGrange points, or between moons in a gas giant system. Hauls too small and too short for the big boys to bother with, and too big or too far for port rats to handle.