Transloading
Move freight from ocean container to truck — palletized or floor-loaded — at our Kent facility minutes from the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma.
Transloading is transferring cargo from an inbound ocean container into outbound trucks — so you ship full truckloads inland instead of paying to move air in a 40-foot box. Ad Hoc Logistics drays your container off the Port of Seattle or Port of Tacoma and transloads it under one roof, the same day where the schedule allows. One company handles the pull, the transload and the outbound — no second carrier, no handoff gaps.
What's included
Cargo comes in on pallets and goes out on pallets — clean, counted, scanned and loaded out.
Floor-loaded freight is built onto pallets, restacked and shrink-wrapped as needed for the outbound.
Direct container-to-trailer transfer with minimal dwell — ideal for time-critical freight.
Restack, sort, shrink-wrap and prep so the load is ready for its next leg.
We arrange the outbound truckload or LTL delivery to your final destination.
Hold product at our yard between the transload and the outbound — short or long term.
Transloading near the terminals lets you consolidate ocean containers into domestic truckloads, return the empty fast (avoiding per-diem), and push freight inland at a lower per-unit cost. Our facility sits in the heart of the Kent–Fife–Sumner warehouse corridor, so the dray from the terminal is short and the outbound options are wide.
Pair transloading with our container drayage and warehousing & 3PL for one accountable team from the port to the pallet.
Transloading by port: Port of Seattle transloading and Port of Tacoma transloading.
Transloading transfers cargo between modes (ocean container to truck) and often re-palletizes it; cross-docking moves freight from one trailer straight to another with little or no storage. We do both.
Most containers are transloaded the same day the box is drayed in, schedule permitting. Send us your volume and timing for a firm window.
Yes — floor-loaded freight is built onto pallets, restacked and wrapped for the outbound truck.
Container to pallet
Floor-loaded or palletized, we move your freight from the container onto pallets or a waiting truck under one roof — no second carrier, no handoff gap.
Request a transload quoteTell us your container count and destination — we'll quote the dray plus the transload together.
Request a transload quote