Third-Party Logistics
Through our third-party logistics solutions (warehousing, distribution and transportation capabilities), you'll achieve flexibility in your end-to-end supply chain solutions in southern California and Texas.
Our warehouse facility is strategically located in Anaheim, California to provide the flexibility you need to manage your supply chains. In addition, you can leverage our capabilities as a Pool Distribution Partner so your truckloads of product from across the country are received in and loaded out for delivery in hours, if necessary, to support your customers’ needs. Line Drive Trucking (LDT) has brokerage authority to act as your local transportation department if you’re not located in the California region.
In addition, you can capitalize on our expertise in helping companies handle seasonal surges that include temporary warehousing, trailer storage, and around-the-clock service. With peak seasons routinely creating tight over-the-road trucking capacity in southern California, LDT has the market intelligence and relationships needed to acquire truck capacity when you can’t. Here are five components to our comprehensive third-party logistics solutions:
Alcohol Logistics
The consumption of wine, beer and spirits from around the world is rapidly growing, and you need a partner that has gone through the rigorous process to obtain proper permits and licenses to keep your freight flowing through the supply chain. Choosing the wrong alcohol logistics partner can result in your products being confiscated, with significant financial loss to you. LDT has invested in obtaining State of California permits and licenses for handling wine, beer, and spirits in its warehouse. Take advantage of our industry expertise in managing your complex spirits supply chain. Through sophisticated systems and technology, we’ll manage your inventory down to the case level with lot and date coding.
Southern Border Logistics
Shipping across international borders can be intimidating - whether your business is inside Mexico or crosses the U.S./Mexico border. As more companies move production to Central America, the nature of logistics dramatically change. Complicating this further are the asset-based carriers ceasing to serve transborder shipments between Mexico and the United States. With LDT in charge, ground transport both north and south of the border is efficient, productive and cost-effective.
Our sister company, Line Drive Texas, was created to help customers in this complicated area. Located minutes from the Pharr International Bridge, Line Drive Texas is focused on serving your rapidly growing transload needs at the border. By having Mexican carriers bring the loaded trailers to LDT, we quickly transfer to a U.S.-based carrier trailer. Through this strategy, we’re not forced to use a dwindling number of carriers that allow their trailers to be used in Mexico – which ultimately enables you to open up the capacity to more opportunities in moving your shipment at the lowest possible spend. Our Southern Border Logistics services include:
- Drayage (both Imports and Exports)
- Transloading and cross docking services
- Consolidation services for cross border needs
- Full Truck Load (FTL) and Less Than Truckload (LTL) services
- Truckload Brokerage
- Warehousing and Distribution
Truckload Brokerage
When you call LDT, you’ll make one call and gain access to many options in southern California and Texas. Our team of experts match customers with all types of exclusive use trucking needs – ranging from 48-foot and 53-foot vans to flatbeds. You have on-call, round-the-clock dispatch service available seven days a week. By treating our carrier partners well and knowing what they need in the region – since we’re a carrier ourselves – we build strong relationships so your shipments are efficient and reliable.
Warehousing & Distribution
Successful supply chains incorporate strategic warehousing and distribution locations within their network. By establishing strategically located distribution centers in the key market of Southern California and on the border between Texas and Mexico, we can serve your B2B warehousing and distribution needs on a contract, short-term, or spot usage basis. LDT will collaborate with you on the solution that works best for your supply chain strategy and the inventory you're responsible for.
Southern California Market: LDT's warehousing and distribution center is located in the heart of the southern California industrial center, with close promixity to the two busiest seaports, the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. In fact, 40% of all imported product into the U.S. flows through these two ports. By partnering with LDT on your warehousing and distribution needs in southern California, you:
- Gain fast, convenient access to these ports
- More efficiently control your land and labor costs, as well as outbound transportation costs
- Streamline your inventory turns
Texas/Southern Border Market: LDT's warehousing and distribution center on the Texas/Mexico border gives you a competitive edge. Conveniently located minutes from the Pharr International Bridge, Line Drive Texas is focused on serving your rapidly growing transload needs at the border. We employ a cloud-based WMS system that gives you the tools needed to be successful. Whether it's date code tracking, directed put away, or multi-strategy wave management for picking, this system powers robust reporting and visibility to your inventory at all times. When it comes to our distribution operations, we strive for the same level of excellence that we achieve in our trucking solutions. No shortages, no damages, and 100% service levels. We treat your inventory like it was our own.
Consolidation & Cross-Dock
More and more, smart importers and exporters are running container shipments through a consolidation or cross-dock solution. Why move a container slowly through the United States to a Distribution Center - somewhere far from where it entered the country to be received, inventory handled, and shipped to final destination?
It's another successful supply chain strategy implemented by many. By using our Cross-Dock service, LDT receives the container right from the port area, moves it to our Distribution Center, receives and arranges the shipments to move right to the final destination. Your inventory can be delivered to your customer - possibly even before you would have received it at your own Distribution Center.
LDT also transloads import containers close to the port to mode shift it to be an over-the-road shipment. You can effectively move two over-the-road trailers for every three containers you receive. This allows you to move inventory faster, gain more control over it compared to rail shipping, and mix inventory from different containers to a delivery order to your customer.