Demand for trucking capacity in Southern California has been on a tear over the last four weeks owing to congestion at inland intermodal terminals, steamship lines and Class I railroads restricting the number of ocean containers flowing inland, and spot intermodal rates that have eclipsed short-term truckload pricing.
Shippers nervous about containers sitting at the Port of Los Angeles or Port of Long Beach for weeks awaiting a train, or worried about train service and chassis availability at inland rail ramps, have turned to trucking as a solution.