Everything changed on October 18, 2025, when the California Labor Commission Office issued citations to three major carriers alleging driver misclassification under the AB5 rule and other labor law violations.
For shippers moving cargo through the Long Beach and Los Angeles port complex, the real question is which applications are making a meaningful difference at the operational level.
When transloading is timed to match the inland dispatch, the cargo essentially moves from the vessel to the final destination without stopping long enough to incur costs.
Even two or three days of avoidable charges per container can add up to thousands of dollars for a shipper that moves 50 containers a month.
A driver who leaves the port at 5 a.m. on a Tuesday has a completely different experience from one who leaves at 3 p.m. on a Thursday.
With GPS tracking, geofencing, rolling ETAs, and live status updates, shippers can really control what happens between port pickup and door delivery. These tools eliminate guesswork to plan appropriately for drayage, transloading, and inland transportation.
In this article, we explain the five operational traits that separate a high-performance drayage from one that just owns a few trucks near the port.
Talk to the GSL team about a plan that will hold up under pressure if you need an inland transport partner to move your freight from the port to anywhere in the U.S.
In this article, we explain how strategic transloading works in practice and how it can move your inventory more quickly while lowering storage costs.
Transloading connects directly with the drayage leg. It doesn’t happen in isolation, which is why a short, well-timed drayage move keeps the whole chain going.
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