Kent Drayage
Ad Hoc Logistics is based right here in Kent, in the heart of the Kent Valley distribution corridor. Our yard, our trucks and our warehouse are all in the city — so for Kent shippers, the drayage carrier and the warehouse are the same short drive.
The Kent Valley is one of the largest warehouse and distribution hubs on the West Coast, and it sits almost exactly between the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma — about 20 minutes from the Seattle terminals and 25 from Tacoma. That's why we're here. For a Kent importer or 3PL, that location is the whole game: your container comes off either harbor and is at your dock, or our warehouse, before the Last Free Day clock matters. We run the dray, the appointments and the chassis in-house, with the yard a few minutes from your building.
Drayage for Kent shippers
Pull from the Seattle or Tacoma terminals straight to your Kent Valley warehouse, with Last Free Day tracked on every box.
Empty pickup, load at your Kent dock, and return to the terminal ahead of the cut-off.
Our warehouse and 3PL are in Kent too — so a box can be drayed, unloaded and stored in one move.
Heavy import containers stripped to pallets at our Kent dock and shipped out on domestic trailers — transload same day.
Prepull to our Kent yard before the Last Free Day and hold the container until your dock is ready.
Final-mile and box-truck delivery around the Kent Valley once the freight is off the container.
A lot of carriers quote Kent from a yard in Seattle, Tacoma or out of state, and the deadhead miles show up in your rate. We're physically in Kent — same city as the Kent Valley's warehouses, the SR-167 / I-5 / SR-18 corridor that feeds both ports, and the rail. That means shorter drays, faster empty returns, and a dispatch team you can reach the same day. We serve all of Kent and the surrounding valley — Kent, Auburn, Renton, Tukwila, Sumner and Federal Way — and pull off every terminal in both harbors.
Because drayage, warehousing and transload all run from the same Kent facility, you get one team and one invoice from the port to the pallet. (See also Kent warehousing & 3PL.)
Yes — our yard, fleet and warehouse are all in Kent, WA. We're not quoting it from another city, so there's no deadhead built into your rate.
Roughly 20 minutes to the Seattle terminals and 25 to the Tacoma terminals — Kent sits between the two harbors, which is what makes the dray short from either.
Yes — we run drayage, warehousing and transload from the same Kent facility, so a container can be pulled, unloaded and stored in one move on a single invoice.
Every container terminal at both the Seattle (T18, T5, T30) and Tacoma (Husky, WUT, PCT) harbors, for import pull-outs and export returns.
Tell us your terminal and Kent Valley destination — a specialist replies the same day.
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