Hight Logistics
Cross-dock and transload
Move freight out of ocean containers and onto domestic trailers without paying for a second drayage move, a storage yard across town, or a container sitting on per diem.
Hight pulls the container, brings it to our own secure facility, and handles the transload or cross-dock on site. Because the drayage carrier and the cross dock facility are the same company, there is no handoff to coordinate and no second party to chase when a terminal appointment slips.
The terms get used interchangeably. They solve different problems, and which one you need usually depends on what happens to the freight next.
Freight comes off the inbound trailer or container and goes straight onto an outbound one, with little or no storage in between. Cross docking services suit freight that is already sorted for its destination and needs to keep moving.
Cargo is unloaded from the ocean container and reloaded into domestic trailers or containers, often consolidating or splitting shipments. Transloading services let you move three 40ft ocean containers into two 53ft domestic trailers and stop paying to haul air.
Our transload facility sits on 6 acres in Long Beach, ten miles from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It is fenced, gated and guarded, with cameras, lighting and controlled access, so high-value freight can dwell without becoming a security problem.
Dock access handles ocean containers and over-the-road trailers in the same controlled operation. On-site reefer plugs and diesel gensets support temperature-controlled freight through the transfer, and there is yard room to stage containers rather than rush them back under demurrage pressure.
Dock access for ocean containers and over-the-road trailers
Outbound delivery across California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
Port, destination, commodity, volume, equipment and timing. We will tell you what we can run, what it costs, and whether transloading takes cost out of the lane.