B&P Logistics
Operational guidance on drayage, intermodal, and full-truckload freight — written by the people who move it.
DRAYAGE
The chassis is a separate rental from the container, with its own owner, its own clock, and its own fees. Here's how pools, splits, and flips turn into line items on a drayage invoice, and the one document that proves you gave the chassis back.
TRUCKLOAD
The full-truckload versus less-than-truckload call is a per-shipment decision, not a default, and getting it wrong quietly costs money in both directions. Here's how the math actually works.
MARKET UPDATE
Fuel surcharges exist to track the price of diesel. But the way they're calculated means they're almost always lagging the real market, and in a fast-moving market that gap is a cost somebody eats.
DRAYAGE
Three charges, constantly confused, and the confusion costs money. Here's what each one actually bills for, when the clock starts, and how to get the wrong ones reversed.
DRAYAGE
Export moves fail in different ways than imports. Here's how street turns, master bookings, and an on-site empty pool keep an export-heavy shipper out of rolled bookings and dry runs.
DRAYAGE
Getting a container from the coast to an inland market is a three-way choice, and the default isn't always the cheapest or the fastest. Here's how IPI, transload, and drayage actually compare.