Trucking & port pickup FAQ.

Based in Long Beach, California with FMCSA authority for all 48 contiguous states. The core lanes we run constantly, both directions: LA/Long Beach ↔ Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and Atlanta. Inside California we run regional work, and everything across the state line is long-haul.

Quoted on legal solo hours-of-service: Phoenix (~370 mi) and Las Vegas (~270 mi) same-day or next-day, Dallas–Fort Worth (~1,435 mi) in 2–3 days, Houston (~1,545 mi) around 3, Atlanta (~2,175 mi) in 3–4. Each lane page shows the math.

Always. Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia freight coming back into California matters as much as the outbound leg. Reloads keep the truck efficient and quotes sharp both ways.

No. Anything inside California runs as regional work, often same-day or next-day. The moment freight crosses the state line it’s interstate long-haul. Same truck, same driver either way.

Yes, with a clear scope. The driver is TWIC-carded and the tractor is registered in the ports’ drayage registry with RFID, and most of our terminal work has run through LBCT. Transloaded freight goes into our own 53′ dry van and can roll the same day. Container-on-chassis moves run where the interchange and chassis are arranged: shipper-owned containers, or moves under your brokerage’s interchange. Full details on the port pickup page.

Not yet. We don’t run an owned chassis fleet or overweight/triaxle programs, so container-on-chassis moves need the equipment side arranged, either shipper-owned or via your broker’s interchange. Transloads into our own trailer need none of that.

For container moves: container number, the delivery order or booking reference, commodity and rough weight, destination, and timing. For transloaded freight: the warehouse, the pickup window, and pallet count. That’s enough for a same-day answer.

Yes, it’s our signature move. A Long Beach pickup connects directly onto our interstate lanes in the same trailer: harbor to a Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Vegas, or Atlanta dock with one carrier of record and zero handoffs.

A 2024 Freightliner Cascadia, ELD-equipped and owner-maintained, pulling our own 53′ dry van: up to 26 standard pallet positions and roughly 45,000 lbs of legal payload.

General dry commodities: palletized consumer goods, beverages, packaging, parts, and building products, full and partial truckload. Port-side, we handle transloaded import freight and arranged-equipment container moves.

No refrigerated, flatbed, oversize, tanker, or hazmat. If it’s dry, legal-weight, and fits a 53′ van, it’s a fit. If a load needs equipment we don’t run yet, we’ll say so in the first reply.

Yes. Pallet count, weight, and dates are all we need to tell you whether a partial pencils out, and on the core lanes it often does.

Use the quote form or email marco@givannitransport.com with origin, destination, commodity, weight, and timing. Quotes usually come back the same day, seven days a week on Pacific time, and today they come from Marco himself, so the person pricing the load knows the truck.

No. Lane, weight, dates, and the current market set every number, so we quote per load rather than posting figures that would be stale by Tuesday. What we do publish is transit math so you can sanity-check any quote, ours included.

Constantly. Brokered freight is most of what we move today. The carrier packet (W-9, certificate of insurance, authority letter) goes out same-day: email with the subject “Carrier packet.” Setup details on the compliance page.

About ten committed loads a month on the current truck, with recurring lanes getting first priority. The operation is built to scale: as steady freight comes in, we add drivers and equipment to match it. Tell us what your monthly volume looks like and we’ll plan for it together.

When the truck is empty, yes, seven days a week. Morning notice makes same-day California delivery routine and puts interstate freight on the road by afternoon.

Yes: active FMCSA common authority since March 2024, USDOT 4201278, MC docket 1620859, and $1,000,000 in BIPD coverage on every load, with a clean safety record.

Look up USDOT 4201278 on the FMCSA SAFER Company Snapshot: authority status, safety record, and insurance on file, straight from the federal database. It’s the same check every good broker runs. Step-by-step on the compliance page.