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Transloading means taking the cargo out of the ocean container close to the port and reloading it into a domestic trailer, usually a 53-foot dry van, for the rest of the trip. The alternative is to dray the container itself to your warehouse and unload it there. Transload near Los Angeles and Long Beach when […]

A drayage price from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is not one number. It is a base haul from the terminal to your door, plus a set of lines that only appear when something about the container, the terminal or the timing calls for them. The base haul is the part you […]

Demurrage is what you pay when a container sits too long inside the terminal. Detention is what you pay when you keep the carrier container too long outside it. How both clocks run at LA and Long Beach, and what FMC rules require on the invoice.

Short answer Heavy haul trucking is the movement of freight that exceeds the federal size or weight limits a truck may carry on the Interstate System without a permit: over 80,000 lb gross, over 102 inches wide, or too long or too tall for standard limits. Because the load cannot legally be broken into smaller […]

A lowboy trailer is a specialized trailer with two drops in deck height: one directly after the gooseneck and another right before the wheels. How does it differ from other types of trailers? Read the post.

Short answer Automotive supply chain management is the coordination of the tiered supplier network, inbound freight and finished-vehicle distribution that stands behind a single assembly line. It differs from general supply chain management in one respect that decides everything else: the line consumes parts in sequence, on a schedule set months earlier, and a single […]