Seattle Drayage
Ad Hoc Logistics is a Kent-based drayage carrier pulling import and export containers off the Port of Seattle every day — Terminal 5, Terminal 18 and Terminal 30 — and delivering across the Puget Sound before the Last Free Day.
When your containers come in through the Port of Seattle, you want a drayage carrier that already runs the North Harbor — Harbor Island, the SODO gates, and the appointment systems that decide whether a box clears clean or sits collecting demurrage. Our yard is in Kent, about 20 minutes south of the Seattle terminals, so our drivers hit the gates early and your freight is moving before the clock runs out. Dispatch, terminal appointments and chassis are all run in-house — one team, one invoice, every container's free time watched.
What we move out of Seattle
Pull-out from Terminal 5, T18 or T30 to your door or our Kent yard, with appointment booking and Last Free Day tracking on every container.
Empty pickup, load at the shipper, and return to the terminal ahead of the cut-off — coordinated to your booking.
Container drayage to and from the Seattle rail ramps, with drop-and-hook where it shaves time off the move.
Off the terminal and onto pallets the same day — we run transloading and cross-dock in-house, so heavy import boxes ship out on domestic trailers fast.
Refrigerated container handling and tri-axle chassis for overweight import loads off Seattle — moved compliant and on schedule.
Prepull before the Last Free Day and secure container storage at our Kent yard, so a terminal appointment never becomes a demurrage bill.
The Port of Seattle is the North Harbor of the Northwest Seaport Alliance, and its container terminals — Terminal 5 (T5), Terminal 18 (T18) and Terminal 30 (T30) — each run on their own appointment and gate rhythm. T18 on Harbor Island is the largest box terminal in the Northwest, and the rebuilt T5 now takes the biggest vessels calling the West Coast. We dispatch against all of them daily, book the right slot, send the right chassis, and pull your box without the missed-appointment shuffle that turns a one-day move into a week of detention.
From the Seattle gateway we deliver across the Puget Sound and beyond — Seattle, SODO, Tukwila, Kent, Renton, Auburn, Bellevue, Tacoma and Federal Way — plus regional drayage throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. And because we also run warehousing and 3PL at our Kent facility, a container can come off the Port of Seattle, get unloaded, stored or reworked, and ship out the same week — all under one roof.
All of the North Harbor container terminals — Terminal 5, Terminal 18 and Terminal 30 — for both import pull-outs and export returns.
We track each container's Last Free Day and per-diem clock from the moment it's available and prioritize the pull before charges start. When a terminal appointment is tight, we prepull to our Kent yard so the box is off the dock and off the demurrage clock.
Seattle drayage is priced per container by lane — terminal to your destination zone — plus chassis, fuel and any accessorials such as prepull, chassis split or detention. Send us your delivery ZIP and container type and we'll quote it the same day.
Yes — tri-axle chassis for overweight import boxes and reefer handling with monitored plug-in at our yard when a drop is needed.
Share your terminal, container type and delivery point — a Seattle drayage specialist replies the same day.
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