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Drayage vs Transloading: What’s the Difference? Logistics terms when it comes to shipping can be difficult to pin down sometimes. You might have heard a little bit about drayage services as well as transloading services. These are two incredibly important parts of the overall shipping process. However, some people might use these terms interchangeably. These...

Impacts of Proper Load Planning Freight management is a huge and incredibly important industry. Without proper load planning, delivery vehicles would not be able to make it to their destinations on time. Nearly all of the goods we buy on a regular basis rely on the supply chain moving with fluidity. Planning how truckloads can...

Benefits of Warehousing and Drayage in Long Beach With Heavy Weight Long Beach has been a major gateway when it comes to trade between the US and Asia. The port plays an integral role in trade both domestically and globally. As you can imagine, Long Beach is a huge player when it comes to trans-pacific...

Shipping and logistics operations can change rapidly, so there can easily be new updates on a consistent basis. As 2023 begins, leaving 2022 behind, you may be wondering what new changes and updates there are regarding the current status of the global shipping crisis spurned on by the COVID-19 pandemic. While struggles to regain footing...

“Drayage transportation” is the term used in the shipping industry to explain one specific logistics service in the general field of container shipping. This particular aspect of shipping pertains to carrying freight and goods across specifically short distances, typically within one city or region. Drayage is a key part of intermodal transportation. Intermodal transportation involves...

The global economy relies heavily on the various unique transportation activities and types used to achieve the wide range of shipping and logistics goals on a daily basis. You can find several of these different transportation types under the overhead of the trucking industry. There are many different reasons why you may be wondering about...

Is Warehousing Safe for Your Freight and Transit Needs? Have you considered storing your freight inside a warehouse, yet were not entirely convinced as to the safety of your products? It’s easy to wonder, “Is warehousing safe?” These concerns are valid whether you are anxious about product damage, theft, accidental misplacement, or even employee liability...

At What Point Should You Warehouse Your Freight? Any industry with a significant amount of freight requires efficient transportation and storage measures. At a certain point in their production process, all businesses outgrow their initial space and need to start outsourcing their products for storage in warehouses. This article will discuss when to start looking...

Which Industries Need Drayage Services? While the average consumer wonders how their favorite farm-fresh eggs from the nearby state ended up in their local grocer, the savvy business owner knows that a lengthy transportation process exists to create that positive consumer experience. We refer to this transportation process as container drayage – a necessary effort...

Drayage for Wine & Spirits Internationally shipped goods are some of the most profitable products in today’s world. However, they aren’t very useful if they can’t get to the consumers. In the post-covid world, shipping chains have been destroyed at every turn. This in turn creates more costs, and consumers are paying the price. Saving...

Drayage for Lumber While inflation continues to rise in every industry, few have been affected so greatly as the lumber and timber industries. Lumber has gone up over 100% per square foot, to the point that it has spiked and dipped dramatically over the past five years. The price of housing has also increased drastically,...

Beginner’s Guide to Transloading Transloading has become an increasingly popular way to transport goods and materials from one place to another. This is especially true for international shipments. It’s nearly impossible to ship internationally without transloading at some point in the shipment process.  In 2022, transloading is an integral part of the supply chain. Employees...

Freight transportation and delivery can require levels of warehousing at one point or another along their journey to their final drop-off location. The shipping containers and related materials and equipment can also require warehousing at various stages. When you need available warehousing in specific locations to achieve goals and experience business success, it’s important to...

When it comes to the daily operations of shipping and logistics, the costs of travel and freight transportation are highly important. The various associated costs of these global activities can directly translate to the decisions, methods, efficiency, and revenue of involved businesses and individual parties. It’s essential to know the details, changes, and possible fluctuations...

If you’re already a drayage driver and are looking for your next valuable position, or you’re thinking of taking up this career path, it can be helpful to know some of the top tips for finding a drayage job. Beyond finding an available drayage job you would be interested in or able to consider, finding...

Shippers and other active participants in daily logistics operations have a vested interest in drayage and its specific details. When you need to ship different types of products regularly, aspects such as the associated fees and options for shipping and travel are important. These shipping and travel aspects can affect the operations, financials, and ultimate...

How to Find Warehousing in New York/New Jersey Various market sources expect the demand for industrial real estate to continue to far outweigh the supply for the foreseeable future, and searching for new warehouse space feels fairly intimidating. When you need to continue production and distribution flow at a steady pace, the last thing you...

How to Find Warehousing in Los Angeles In an era of people increasingly shopping online rather than in retail stores, it’s now becoming imperative for global retailers to increase their usable storage space, often more heavily than their retail spaces. Due to the growing need for storage space, especially as areas of the global supply...

The chaos surrounding daily activities for retailers, ports, and warehouses has continued to persist since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, many continue to face uncertainty as to when supply chains will return to normal or if they are likely to. With so many factors affecting distinct areas of global supply chain operations,...

Drayage and the involved transporters play vital roles in global shipping and logistics success. These carriers receive goods from ports and transport them to intermodal facilities, enabling supply chain operations to run smoothly and timely to achieve transportation, distribution, and revenue goals. There are about 3.5 million drayage truck drivers in the United States and...

The United States has a significant shipping presence spanning the American continent. The US covers around 75% of its products’ transportation through sea routes. Historically, the United States has maintained a strong presence in shipping operations. This has been true since the early 1600s, with commercial cargo processes experiencing a substantial boost during 1820. Since...

What if my shipping container is overweight? This is a worry many in the shipping and trucking industry share. Not only do overweight containers risk fines, but they also carry a safety risk. In rough seas, overweight container stacks can collapse, injuring workers and damaging goods.  Once the container is off the boat and loaded...

What is a tri-axle trailer and why do I need one? This question is one every truck driver should ask at some point. After all, if you want to safely and legally carry heavy loads, you need a tri-axle truck. In this article, we will answer this question and more. A tri-axle vehicle is any...

How do I get my shipping container delivered? The supply chain was disrupted towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and is still recovering. Fewer truck drivers were on the road, boats were stuck at ports, and manufacturers could not keep up with demand. With all these new problems, you are probably wondering what this...

Do you need tips to improve semi-truck fuel economy? Do you have the best fuel economy truck? If not you will need to do some work to get your truck anywhere near its fuel efficiency. With enormous gas tanks and large engines required to carry heavy loads, fuel economy and semi-truck are two words most...

All jobs require some form of training and all training costs money. A job as important as truck driving is no different. But just how much does it cost to become a truck driver? It might not be as much as a college degree or technical school, but that does not mean it is cheap....

Truck drivers have a hard job. Luckily we live in a digital age where there is an app for just about everything. The best apps for truck drivers help truck drivers at every step of the job. Driving apps to make the journey safer and more enjoyable, apps that alert you to places your truck...

Drayage Challenges Freight shipping is a complex process, involving more moving parts than most people think. There is more to it than the ship or plane that moves the goods from one country to another. Other modes of transportation, like drayage, make a contribution as well. Like every other industry, there are challenges facing drayage...

The intricacies of shipping include many different procedures, issues, and steps that are essential to know if you are in the business. In large cargo shipping, the process is almost never something you understand until you actually work in it. Shipping isn’t just getting things from point A to point B. Demurrage and detention can...

Whether you are a drayage driver, an owner-operator, or have a role in understanding the logistics of cargo logistics, you have likely come across the term “factoring.” Factoring in trucking refers to a process that helps maintain consistent cash flow for the carrier company, the party who is shipping the commodity. Transporting heavy weights can...

What Is an Intermodal Container? An intermodal container is the use of different modes of transportation for shipping. The phrase “intermodal” refers to a form of transportation that carries so many holdings throughout the travels. So, in this article, we’ll go over intermodal containers and how they work in depth. Intermodal Definition An intermodal container...

LA Warehousing We know that our customers often need services beyond the ports in LA and Long Beach. That is why Heavy Weight Transport offers LA warehousing services. If you are in the Los Angeles area with a load you need to store, you have found the right place. We offer premier warehousing services for...

NJ Warehousing If you are looking for NJ warehousing, Heavy Weight Transport is here to help. Heavy Weight Transport offers NJ warehousing services. If you have a load on your truck and you can’t deliver it, and you’re stuck in the NJ or NY area, you can drop it off at our warehouse and store...

For your drayage needs, it’s worth knowing more specifics about what drayage opportunities and options are out there to choose from. Drayage is a unique, long-standing form of transportation that can come in many forms and functions. This can be somewhat uniquely depending on your activities, processes, and the drayage trucking company you use. In...

When you are looking to start, add to, or change up your shipping and logistics operations, one of the biggest considerations is how much the available options could cost you. There are many variables in freight transportation for different products, other freight, and locations from their starting point to final drop-off locations. In this article,...

With unprecedented times during the COVID-19 pandemic that continue to bring rapidly changing standards, capabilities, and restrictions, you may be wondering what the current and potential upcoming changes are within drayage and other shipping and logistics processes. Among the top questions and concerns, you may have is whether or not drayage rates are changing and...

As vital and ever-changing aspects of shipping and logistics, drayage and drayage companies can come in many different forms and function uniquely. Drayage can refer to many distinct interactions and transfers of goods. Giant drayage companies, for instance, function much differently than growing drayage companies. They come with several negative aspects in comparison and lack...

Many different aspects continue to deeply affect how the global supply chain functions, succeeds and experiences setbacks or other difficulties. We are experiencing global, rapid changes in supply chains. So, the right freight and supply transport and storage company is more important than ever. In this article, we’ll discuss what warehouse supply chains involve. Let’s...

Far from straightforward processes, the shipping and logistics processes that bring consumers their goods rely on many variables. The full journey of shipping containers to their destinations consists of some distinct requirements, potential uncertainties, and high levels of skill and adaptability from the individuals who work to bring freight from its point of origin to...

Many consider drayage to be the backbone of U.S. logistics. It is vital to the production and community accessibility of goods and services and serves as an essential part of supply chain processes. The worth of drayage increases in an impactful way every year, and in addition to the worldwide importance, there are also numerous...

The first image of truck driving often involves long hours on the interstate with little else than your phone and your cargo, but is that really the best truck driver job? Often, these long haul truckers spend two to three weeks on the road before getting a chance to go home. Some regional jobs may...

Intermodal transportation and drivers play a critical role in the secure, safe, and time-efficient delivery of goods to their destinations. Intermodal shipping itself provides the most ideal supply chain solution to maximize the value of goods and services to customers and to the various communities that receive them. There are many more positive impacts of...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, most experts were hopeful that the pandemic-related supply chain challenges would be resolved before 2021 and certainly before 2022. And yet, we are still here. While certain supply chain problems have been overcome, old and new challenges continue to come up, further disrupting the modern supply chain....

Drayage plays an extremely important role in intermodal shipping. But you can’t always rely on just any company. Choosing the best drayage carrier will go beyond finding the lowest price. After all, each day it takes to receive a container results in longer transit time and more money. Selecting the right drayage carrier reduces transportation...

It is not uncommon for shippers to wonder about how much drayage shipping costs, especially because it is the shortest part of a shipment’s journey. But anyone who is familiar with drayage knows that it is an essential part of the supply chain. Here we will help you understand drayage rates and how they’re calculated....

At any given time, there are millions of freight containers on ships traveling the waterways worldwide. These containers are packed with anything from produce to clothing or parts for cars and trucks. However, since early 2021, almost every shipping company has had to contend with a global shipping container shortage. The current situation is unlike...

When people think of joining the trucking industry or the logistics industry at large, being a drayage driver probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, it is a vital part of the supply chain. Many businesses don’t consider the importance of the last few legs of their products’ journey to get to...

Unfortunately, more and more people today are retiring with little to no savings. Many of these people realize that they need more income once they have retired or while they are thinking about it. Social security just might not be enough to make ends meet. Today, many retirees end up returning to the workforce after...

Over the past few years, Walmart has been expanding its private fleet. This is part of a trend of private companies bringing transportation of their products in-house rather than hiring third-party companies to do the work. Amazon is one of the most popular businesses that has practiced this model of transport. It’s no surprise that...

In today’s modern times, intermodal transportation is the way most companies move goods. Intermodal transport moves containers and trailers approximately 25 million times all over North America each year. Globally, more than 20 million intermodal containers are currently in use. It has become the backbone of the logistics industry because of its many benefits. If...

There is a reason that some theorize trucking can fix global supply chain problems. In 2021, the world started to feel the strain that was put on the global supply chain. As orders from both consumers and businesses increased, the consumer pipeline became backed up. All aspects of the chain were strained, from material supplying...

Many truck drivers out there nowadays choose to move intermodal drayage. Of course, there’s a reason for this. Every trucking job has its perks and its drawbacks, but intermodal drayage shipping is one of the best positions a truck driver could ask for.  Intermodal shipping is planned out beforehand to give the driver the best...

In the United States, over 8 million commercial vehicles are produced each year. To make just one of these work vehicles, it can take many different suppliers. Of course, this makes commercial vehicles a significant part of the automotive industry.  However, trucking itself is a whole industry of its own. A work truck is a...

When we think about the US supply chain, you likely think of truck drivers. These drivers are essential to the US supply chain by delivering goods for businesses across the entire nation. However, when it comes down to the logistics of the supply chain, many people don’t know the entire story. The general population tends...

Port trucking jobs are one of the most essential jobs within the global supply chain. These port trucking positions are incredibly lucrative, plus they offer more financial and life stability than over the road trucking positions. If you’re looking for a truck driving job, becoming a port truck driver might be the right decision for...

Lately, the trucking industry has been doing incredibly well. Choosing to become a truck driver can be a great career decision, and no matter the jobs you’re doing, it can be especially lucrative. Perhaps you’re just beginning your career and need guidance on where you want your path to take you. Or maybe you’re an...

The number of drayage drivers has dwindled since the beginning of the pandemic. There are multiple factors at play as to why there’s a shortage of drayage drivers in the United States right now. Mostly, it’s due to dramatic changes in the industry over short amounts of time which is causing a decline in drayage...

Drayage probably isn’t a term you hear often if you don’t work in the shipping or logistics industry. In fact, those who aren’t familiar at all with shipping lingo may have never even heard of the word at all before. But drayage is one of the most important steps in the global supply chain. Before...

As technology has evolved, peoples’ attention spans have become shorter. Thus, demand for constant new products and services has gone up. In this day and age, with promises of 24 hour shipping services, the transportation industry is in great need of  drayage drivers. While technology has progressed, obviously some shipping and logistics tasks have been...

The global supply chain might seem like it’s pretty unchangeable. Really, how much can the transportation of cargo advance at this point? Well, there’s always some sort of transformation that can occur with how the industry deals with logistics. There are plenty of companies out there that are entirely dedicated to improving the productivity and...