G Singh
1 year ago
We do not own a warehouse. We know the ones that do.
Saying it plainly
That is the first line on this page on purpose. What we do is arrange space at partner facilities in the markets we run, and handle the trucking in and out.
You get one point of contact instead of managing a warehouse vendor and a trucking vendor separately, which is usually the actual problem. You should also know who is holding your freight, so we tell you rather than letting the page imply otherwise.
What we arrange
Transloading
Ocean container stripped, freight reloaded into a domestic 53-foot trailer. You return the ocean equipment immediately and stop per diem, and you fit more freight into each onward load.
Cross-docking
Freight comes in, gets sorted and goes back out, usually the same day. No storage and no inventory, just a change of trailer or a break into smaller loads.
One point of contact
We book the space and we book the trucks on both ends. When something slips you make one phone call rather than refereeing between two vendors.
Where this connects
Consolidation
Several small shipments combined into one trailer, often through the same cross-dock.
Freight brokerage
The trucking side. Sourcing the carrier, covering the load and staying on it until it delivers.
3PL
When the warehousing, the trucking and the reporting are one arrangement rather than three.
Two more things worth asking for
Overflow storage
Short-term space when your DC is full. A seasonal peak, a promotion, or a production run that landed earlier than anyone planned for.
Drop trailer programs
A trailer parked at your dock so you load or unload on your schedule instead of holding a driver. It cuts detention and lets you work a trailer across a shift rather than an hour.
When transloading
is worth it
The box would otherwise sit
If the container is going to wait on your dock, per diem runs the whole time. Strip it near the ramp and the ocean equipment goes back the same day.
The freight splits
More than one destination means the container has to be broken down somewhere. Doing it at a transload facility beats doing it at your busiest door.
The receiver cannot take a container
No chassis handling, no room to turn one around, or a dock that will not take the height. A 53-foot domestic trailer also holds meaningfully more than a 40-foot container.
- Drayage
The other end of
a container move
Transloading only helps if the container gets off the ramp on time in the first place. The drayage page covers the two clocks that cost you money, demurrage and per diem, and how the free time gets tracked against the pull.
Related services
Drayage
Port and rail container moves, with the chassis sourced and the free time tracked against the pull.
Warehouse and fulfillment
When the freight needs picking, packing and shipping rather than just storing and moving on.
Ocean freight
The leg before the container reaches the ramp, and where the free time starts running.
Tell us the market,
the volume and how long
We will tell you what is available and what it costs. If the answer is that a transload beats holding the box, we will say that too. Or call 1-800-632-1760.
