Trucking & Drayage
Container Drayage & Trucking Services
Port and rail-ramp drayage plus domestic over-the-road trucking, coordinated nationwide — so the ground legs keep pace with the ocean leg.
What drayage is — and why coordination matters
Drayage is the short-haul truck move that connects a container to everything else: terminal to warehouse, rail ramp to final destination, door back to port. It's a small fraction of the total distance and an outsized share of the problems — missed appointments, chassis shortages, and per diem clocks all live here.
Conveyco coordinates container drayage at major U.S. ports and rail ramps nationwide, along with over-the-road trucking for domestic freight that needs to move quickly. Whether it's a single import container off a vessel or a full truckload to a warehouse, we select the carrier, set the appointments, and keep the move on schedule.
Because we also handle the ocean booking, drayage gets scheduled against the vessel and the free-time window — not booked blind after the container is already sitting at the terminal.
Common use cases
- Port drayage — moving containers from terminal to inland point
- Rail ramp drayage — connecting intermodal moves to final destination
- Domestic long-haul trucking
- Final-mile coordination
- Time-sensitive domestic moves
What we coordinate
- Drayage carrier selection and dispatch
- Chassis provisioning
- Pickup and delivery appointments
- Live load, drop, and pre-pull moves
- Cross-country trucking across our carrier network
Why shippers route drayage through Conveyco
Drayage booked in isolation is where demurrage and detention charges are born. When the same team that booked your ocean freight dispatches the dray, the pickup lands inside free time, the chassis is arranged in advance, and the delivery appointment actually matches when the container is available.
From Burnsville, Minnesota — in the heart of the Twin Cities freight market — we coordinate drayage and trucking across the country, including the long inland legs that Upper Midwest shippers can't avoid. One call covers the port, the ramp, and the road.
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Need a container moved?
Give us the pickup point and the destination — we'll coordinate the dray, the chassis, and the appointment.