HARBOR

This seachange in operationals imperatives caused a huge number of former owner-operators to sell their trucks and seek work as company drivers. We accepted over 200 applications, held 84 interviews, scrutinized and verified many pounds of personal histories.

We had no trouble hiring an elite cadre of seasoned, proven, well groomed and well spoken drivers for our small fleet. We distilled the most experienced former owner-operator applicants. We trained them up in the new equipment. We told them we were going to rely on numbers, cold math, to determine their status as probationer or team member. We culled. We did call ups. We culled again. We nailed it. We now had the cream of the driver crop, in brand new, fee exempt (“Green”) trucks.

By way of a home for this elite corp, we acquired a 2 ½ acre, lined, and brilliantly night-lit truck yard. We are less than 2 miles from the water. The yard boasts ironclad security. In fact, we store loaded containers for other trucking companies as part of normal operations. Also, many companies rely on us to bring their inbound loads to the yard with our exempt equipment (or the reverse with export loads). This means: 1)Their drivers, in perfectly good, although non-exempt, company trucks, spend all their time on the road instead of wasting hours running the pier gauntlet. And 2) The company saves a bundle on Port levies.

If you have goods arriving at the Ports of L.A./Long Beach, Harbor Division's “HotShots” drivers can move your container(s) through the pier and longshore gauntlet, well, as the saying goes, “Like grease through a goose”. There is no slowing the “HotShots” down. They compete with each other to have the best month's end “Outgate” (loads out) numbers. We don't know if it's for the bragging rights, or the substantial cash bonuses. We don't pry. The results excite and satisfy.

You may depend upon us for day to day container work, or rely on us in any “container emergency”. Unless it is on Pier Hold, only a helicopter could get it to you faster. If anyone tells you it's “too late”, or the container is “Unable to Locate”, or you just must be certain your container makes it, call the “HotShots” at Harbor Division.

“The Hardest Working Guys in the Harbor” since 1986

A Proud Member of the Clean Truck Coalition

All drayage services are subject to fuel surcharge unless quoted on a “Flat” or “All In” basis. Fuel Surcharge will vary slightly week to week as fuel price averages are determined weekly.

Scenario 1:

We make your loads available for pick up in our yard. Your drivers arrive here, drop their empties here, grab a load and they're back on the road in 5 minutes. We terminate the empty same calendar day (if piers are open, or next if piers are not). Unless instructed otherwise we will pull loads out (and take export loads in) at night. All loads will be afforded free storage for the first 24 hours. Thereafter loads will be charged our standard overnight (NOT CALENDAR!) rate of $15.00 per day. Rate: $150.00 plus Fuel.

Scenario 2:

We simply make loads available for your trucks, or terminate export loads brought here by your trucks. One Way Dray: $110.00 plus Fuel

Scenario 3:

HOT! HOT! Same as scenario 2, except we scramble a HotShot driver, on an exclusive use basis. (In other words, we do not return some empty to the pier before we go after your load. And/or we pull a HotShot from some other task for immediate and undivided attention to your container). Add $100.00 to Scenario 2 rate.

Scenario 4:

YOU tell US. There are so many variables (including our own physical limitations) that we would very much like to explore each importers needs, and requirements, on a case by case basis. We know every possible iteration (and cost) involved with getting your stuff where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. It's not rocket science, but, we might surprise you with a shortcut.

Since 1986 Harbor Division has done nothing but Port drayage. We've finally perfected it.

When the local Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began charging Traffic Mitigation Fees on containers pulled during day (Peak) hours a few years ago, it was a game changer. The work that could be done at night (Off-Peak), would be done at night. When the Ports began charging Clean Truck Fees recently, it not only changed the game, it altered our entire game plan. The combination of the two new levies amounted to $170.00 per 40 foot import or export load picked up/delivered during the day, with a non-exempt (dirty) truck. The importing community was demanding relief in the form of exempt (“Green”) trucks with night pickups. We shed the owner-operator (non-exempt) model in favor of the employee-driver model. We invested in 10 brand new Air Quality Compliant (exempt) trucks.