Drayage and 53' dry van freight out of Southern California.
Intermodal Trucking in Southern California
The truck legs on either end of a rail move — port to ramp, ramp to warehouse, and back. They are the two shortest parts of an intermodal shipment and the two most likely to cost you the savings.
Where the truck fits in an intermodal move
Rail carries the long middle cheaply. The truck carries the two ends, and the two ends are where intermodal shipments actually fail. A missed ramp cutoff or a late ramp pull can erase every dollar the rail leg saved, which is why the drayage carrier matters more on an intermodal move than most people expect.
We run port-to-ramp drays to the Southern California rail facilities, ramp pulls out to warehouses and distribution centers, and the return legs — with the same appointment discipline, because the ramps run on the same unforgiving logic as the marine terminals.
The Inland Empire run
A large share of Southern California import freight finishes in the Inland Empire — Ontario, Fontana, Rialto, Moreno Valley, Perris. It is close enough to the harbor to be a day move and far enough that traffic and appointment windows decide whether it is one turn or two, which is a real difference in your cost per container.
This corridor is ordinary work done carefully. That is the only way it has ever been done well, and it is what we are for.
Running rail or inland moves?
Send us the ramp and the destination and we will walk through the timing with you before anything is committed.