Cold Chain Services

Need an expert on the requirements and challenges of high-security, temperature sensitive freight?

Our cold chain solutions include:

• 24-hour temperature monitoring and equipment tracking
• Temperature controlled and thermal mapped equipment
• Quality assurance processes to comply with pharmaceutical guidelines
• Skilled team owner-operators with experience delivering temperature sensitive freight safely and on-time

Contact GORILLA FREIGHT, LLC to handle your pharmaceuticals, produce, plants, frozen foods and other cold chain shipments.

In the world of shipping and logistics, intermodal refers to the use of more than one mode of transportation to move a container or trailer. Drayage refers to the transport of cargo over a short distance, or as part of a longer distance. To ship cargo, combining the use of truck, rail and ocean is seen as an effective way to meet the modern-day shipping time and cost demands that long-haul, over-the-road trucking fails to do.)

Drayage Classifications

According to the Intermodal Association of North America, drayage can be split into the following categories:

• Inter-carrier drayage – The movement of units over a short distance between different carriers, such as with trucking and railroad stations.

• Expedited drayage – Units are transported over-the-road in a quick and efficient manner for time-sensitive material goods.

• Intra-carrier drayage – Similar to that of inter-carrier, intra-carrier takes freight from a rail hub to an intermodal hub, all controlled by the same carrier.

• Door-to-door drayage – Retail units are taken to a customer through roadways.

• Shuttle drayage – An intermodal unit is temporarily taken to a parking lot from its hub of origin, with this method being used for both loaded and empty units when overcrowding in the hub occurs.

• Pier drayage – Utilizing roadways, takes an intermodal unit to a dock or pier from a previous rail hub.