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What Is a Drayage Trucker? Everything You Need to Know
Are you wondering, “what is a drayage trucker?” If you’d like to understand more about what a drayage trucker is, you must first understand the question, “what is drayage?” Drayage is a specialty logistics service. It specifically refers to freight that is moved over...
How to Become a Drayage Carrier: Everything You Need to Know
Drayage carriers play an integral role in logistics. They get goods from ports to warehouses and intermodal facilities smoothly and ensure supply chains run correctly and on time. There are around 3.5 million truck drivers in the US, and with 11 million shipping...
What Is Drayage? The Simple Guide to Shipping Your Goods
Does your business have goods coming into the U.S. via shipping container(s)? If so, then someone at your company has probably planned how to get those containers from the dock to their final destination. As you may know, that trip from the port to another location is...
What Is Truck Drayage & Why Is It Important?
In 2018, the volume of seaborne trade reached around 11 billion tons, according to Statista. In 2020, 25 million shipping containers were expected to be transported across the Pacific Ocean. But what happens with these containers when they reach the port? That’s where...
What Are Freight Forwarders & What Do They Have to Do With Drayage?
As we continue with unprecedented online sales and long waits for shipping, the spotlight is on how to move products and supplies affordably and efficiently. Shipments arrive at our ports and need to be moved to their final destination. Someone needs to get the cargo...
Are Drayage Fees Getting You Down? Here’s What You Can Do About It
What Are Drayage Fees? Drayage fees are a lot like taxes: widely disliked and unavoidable. It is normal for shipments to get hit with all of these fees from the point of origin to the destination. You see, you are not only going to pay freight fees, but you are also...
Improve Container Drayage Management With the Industry’s Most Accurate Spot Market Index
Eliminate Transportation Issues & Reduce Container Drayage Costs with Draydex™ With 40 years of experience in the container drayage and transportation industry, the team at Draydex™ is well aware of the cost, transparency, and operation issues shippers face. With...