Auburn Drayage
Auburn anchors the south end of the Kent Valley distribution corridor — big warehouses, fast turns, and easy reach to both ports. Our Kent yard is a short hop up the valley, so your containers move quick and clean.
Auburn sits at the south end of the Kent Valley, where the SR-18 and SR-167 (Valley Freeway) corridors meet — which makes it one of the easiest cities in the region to reach from both harbors. The area is packed with distribution and fulfillment warehouses, and for those operations the drayage math is simple: a container off Tacoma is roughly 20 minutes away, and Seattle not much more. We dray import and export boxes to Auburn every week from our Kent yard just up the valley, with our own trucks and chassis and one team tracking each container's free time.
Drayage for Auburn warehouses
Pull from the Tacoma or Seattle terminals to your Auburn warehouse, appointment booked and Last Free Day tracked.
Empty pickup, load at your Auburn dock, return to the terminal before the cut-off.
Built for Auburn's fulfillment and distribution centers — steady daily pulls, drop-and-hook where it saves time.
Strip floor-loaded boxes to pallets at our Kent dock, or store overflow — transload and 3PL on site.
Prepull before the Last Free Day when your Auburn dock is full, and hold the box at our yard.
Tri-axle chassis for overweight import loads and refrigerated container handling into Auburn.
Auburn's distribution centers run on volume and schedule — a missed terminal appointment or a container stuck on demurrage ripples straight into the dock plan. We dispatch against every terminal in both harbors daily, so we book the right slot and pull on time, then run the short leg down the valley to Auburn. From here we also cover the neighboring cities — Kent, Sumner, Pacific, Algona, Federal Way and Puyallup — and longer regional drayage across the Pacific Northwest.
And because our warehouse and transload dock are just up the road in Kent, a container can come off the port, be stripped or stored, and ship out the same week without a second carrier in the middle.
Auburn is roughly 20–25 minutes from the Tacoma terminals and a bit more from Seattle, with easy access via SR-167 and SR-18 — a short dray from our Kent yard.
Yes — steady daily pulls for Auburn's fulfillment and distribution centers, with drop-and-hook and prepull to keep the dock plan on schedule.
Yes — we prepull, store and transload at our Kent facility just up the valley, so a tight terminal appointment never turns into a demurrage bill.
All of them — Husky, WUT and PCT in Tacoma and T18, T5 and T30 in Seattle, for both imports and exports.
Share your terminal and Auburn destination — a specialist replies the same day.
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