Long Road Transportation delivers ocean containers into Sumner, WA (98390) on its own trucks and chassis, off the Seattle and Tacoma terminals. Request a rate or call dispatch to get a container moving.
Call dispatch at (425) 800-4609 with your terminal, container size, and delivery address.
Get a QuoteDelivering to a Sumner DC
A Sumner delivery is about 20 minutes from the Tacoma tideflats: SR-167 north from SR-410, or I-5 to SR-167 depending on the hour. The distance is easy. The appointment is not - the large distribution centers here work in fixed receiving windows and will turn a truck away that misses one.
So we work backwards. Dispatch takes the receiver's window first, then books the terminal appointment to land ahead of it, and confirms the container is released before a driver heads for the gate. A missed dock window in Sumner costs a full day, so we do not gamble on it.
Where the container waits
When a Sumner window is two days out, the container does not have to sit at the terminal collecting demurrage. Long Road grounds it at our Tacoma yard on Portland Avenue East, about 20 minutes away, and delivers on the day the dock is open. That single move is usually the difference between a clean invoice and a demurrage line.
For freight that has to come out of the box first, our Kent warehouse handles the transload and sends it to Sumner on a 53' dry van.
What we bring into Sumner
- Full container loads on our own chassis, standard and overweight
- Transloaded pallet freight when the DC will not take a container
- Reefer and temperature-controlled freight
- Box truck delivery for partial loads and smaller receivers around town
Around Sumner
Sumner runs with Puyallup next door and Fife down SR-167, and connects north to Auburn.
Sumner drayage questions
The DC gave me a fixed receiving window. Can you hit it?
That is how we plan a Sumner move. Dispatch takes the receiving window first, then books the terminal appointment to land ahead of it. Missing a window at a Sumner distribution center costs a full day, so it drives the schedule rather than the other way around.
My window is two days out. Do I pay demurrage while I wait?
Not if we ground the container at our Tacoma yard instead. It comes off the terminal clock and gets delivered on the day the dock is open. That single step is usually the difference between a clean invoice and a demurrage line.
Do you deliver partial loads to smaller Sumner receivers?
Yes, on box trucks with liftgates for receivers without a dock, or on a dry van after a transload at our Kent warehouse.
Owned and operated by Long Road Transportation. USDOT 3388302, MC 113242, SCAC LRDP. A privately owned, asset-based fleet of trucks and chassis serving the Seattle-Tacoma corridor.