B&P Logistics
Operational guidance on drayage, intermodal, and full-truckload freight, written by the people who move it.
TRADE SHOW
Shipping a booth to CES 2027 in Las Vegas? A backward-planned freight timeline, advance warehouse vs. show site, holiday capacity traps, and how to keep drayage at the base rate.
DRAYAGE
The chassis is a separate rental with its own owner, clock, and fees. How chassis pools, splits, and a chassis flip become line items on your drayage invoice.
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.