Drayage at the LB & LA ports.
Port of Long Beach container & freight pickup.
TWIC-carded driver, truck registered in the ports’ drayage registry with RFID terminal access. Your freight leaves San Pedro Bay in our own 53′ dry van, or on an arranged chassis, and can be anywhere in the Lower 48 without changing trucks.
The service
What you get.
Real terminal access, minutes from the gates. Givanni Transport is based in Long Beach with current port credentials: a TWIC-carded driver and a tractor registered in the San Pedro Bay ports’ drayage truck registry with RFID. Most of our recent terminal work has run through LBCT, Long Beach Container Terminal, so the appointment systems, gate flow, and turn times there are familiar ground rather than a learning curve on your freight.
Two ways your freight leaves the harbor. Freight that has been transloaded at a port-area warehouse loads straight 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 set up under your brokerage’s interchange agreement. Tell us which situation you have and we’ll confirm the right setup before anything is promised.
The part almost nobody else offers: the truck that picks up at the port can deliver in Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, or Atlanta. Most drayage outfits stop at the Inland Empire and hand your freight to a second carrier. We don’t hand off. One driver, one truck, one point of contact from ship side to dock door, anywhere in the Lower 48.
Fully licensed and insured: active FMCSA common authority since March 2024, USDOT 4201278, MC 1620859, and $1,000,000 in BIPD coverage on every load. Verify us on FMCSA SAFER in under a minute.
- TWIC-carded driver
- RFID drayage-registry tractor
- LBCT (Long Beach Container Terminal) experience
- Transload pickup into our own 53′ dry van
- Shipper-owned & arranged-chassis container moves
- Direct connection to 48-state long-haul
Also on the truck
The process
How a port pickup works.
1. Send the details. Origin terminal or warehouse, destination, commodity and rough weight, and timing. For container moves, include the container number and the delivery order or booking reference. For transloaded freight, the pickup window your warehouse gave you. That’s enough for a same-day answer.
2. We confirm the setup. For a container-on-chassis move, we confirm how the chassis and interchange are covered, whether that’s shipper-owned equipment or your brokerage’s arrangement, before anything is promised. If a setup won’t work, you hear it up front instead of at the gate.
3. Pickup. TWIC and RFID mean no gate surprises. In-gate, out-gate, and appointment compliance are handled by the person whose name is on the authority, not a driver three subcontracts removed from whoever quoted you.
4. Rolling. An empty truck means same-day capability. California deliveries typically run same-day or next-day, and interstate freight connects straight onto our long-haul lanes without a cross-dock or a carrier swap.
5. Delivered, documented. Signed POD and clean paperwork on delivery, every time.
Straight talk
What we run today.
Here is the plain scope of the port service right now. We don’t operate our own chassis fleet yet, so container-on-chassis moves need the equipment side arranged: shipper-owned containers, or a move running under your brokerage’s interchange. We run dry van freight, so no reefer, flatbed, oversize, or overweight container programs. The flagship truck takes about ten committed loads a month, and we add capacity as regular lanes fill. If a move needs something we don’t run yet, we’ll tell you in the first email and help you find the fastest workable path.
Straight answers
Port pickup questions, answered.
The things shippers and brokers actually ask before booking a port move.
Not yet. Container-on-chassis moves run where the equipment and interchange are arranged: shipper-owned containers, or moves set up under your brokerage’s interchange agreement. Transloaded freight is different. It goes straight into our own 53′ dry van, no chassis involved.
The tractor is registered in the San Pedro Bay drayage truck registry with RFID and the driver is TWIC-carded, which covers terminal access across the Long Beach / Los Angeles complex. Most of our recent work has run through LBCT (Long Beach Container Terminal), and a familiar terminal means faster turns on your container.
Yes. It’s the work big fleets often push down the queue. If you move one to ten containers a month, you get the same driver and the same direct email thread every time, not a portal and a ticket number.
An empty truck means same-day capability, seven days a week on Pacific time. Give us the container number or warehouse window in the morning and California delivery is typically same-day or next-day.
Yes. Port pickup connects directly onto our interstate lanes: Phoenix and Las Vegas typically next-day, Dallas–Fort Worth in two to three days, Houston around three, Atlanta in three to four. No relays, no handoffs. See the lanes we run.
Get in touch
Tell us about your freight.
Send the details and Marco will get back to you with a quote, usually the same day, seven days a week.
marco@givannitransport.com