DELIVERY & LIMITATION
JHA provides a vast network of carriers domestically in the U.S. Our network consists of National, Regional, and local carriers that we utilize daily to help with our clients’ needs. We also have our house truck with local deliveries within the Midwest to help lower costs for our customers. We offer a wide range of options for any inland transportation within the continental USA. If your shipment is needed to either destination in Canada, or Mexico we have agents, and networks set-up to utilize their vast to make sure your shipment arrives in time. We navigate and coordinate your transportation and ocean freight bookings, to chart the calmest, straightest, fastest routes. If you are looking for multiple choices to provide the very best routings and consolidations call JHA.
Depending on how you ship this from overseas to the U.S. we have a strong network who can cross border shipments to Canada, clearing Customs and utilizing other agents in Canada to ensure shipments are transferred to the consignee smoothly.
In addition to Canada cross border shipments we have agents, as well as established companies that can manage shipments from south of the U.S. to Mexico.
JHA has years of experience dealing with all the major railways in the U.S. Especially Chicago.
LTL Service
FCL Serive
Drayage
Owner Operator - Local trucks & Chassis Pool
Flatbeds
Residential Lift Gate
Cross Border Delivery - Canada & Mexico
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Liftgate
Liftgate is a hydraulic or electric platform mounted on the rear of a truck, designed to facilitate the loading and unloading of heavy or bulky cargo. If you’ve ever seen a dry van trailer with a flat, moving platform on the back—similar to a mini elevator—that's a liftgate.
Liftgate services are perfect in situations where you don’t have the infrastructure to receive freight the traditional way.
NO loading dock
– This is the most common reason. Many retail stores and small businesses just don’t have dock-height receiving areas.
NO forklift or pallet jack
– If your team isn’t equipped to unload heavy or bulky pallets, a liftgate will do the heavy lifting for you.
Residential delivery
– Liftgates are often used for home deliveries of large items.
Adding liftgate services to your freight delivery can offer a variety of advantages.
Safer for Drivers and Freight
Minimizing freight handling
Providing a stable platform
Enhancing efficiency
Chassis
Chassis charge
Various charges are applied when utilizing a container chassis, from daily rental fees to fuel surcharges. It is important to note what these charges are and whether they are avoidable or negotiable.
Secondly, realize that chassis fees tend to go hand in glove with port drayage services (what chassis are most used for). Drayage fees are their own service charge, and while chassis fees may get bundled with them, the charges I’m describing here are specific to trailer uses.
Tri-Axle Chassis Charge
As mentioned, a tri-axle trailer, one with three axles on the chassis, will incur higher rates. More axles increase the load-bearing weight a chassis can transport, which may be necessary to meet DOT weight requirements, now lets say over 38000lbs/20 and 44000lbs/40 container
Chassis Split Charge
A chassis split happens when the shipping container is in a different location than the chassis. The charge is the cost for the driver to haul the empty chassis to where the container is, a predetermined chassis pool will dictate and manage the pickup and termination point for all chassis rented.
After a container has been delivered and emptied, this fee may also apply. In this case, it may be referred to as a reposition charge, aka chassis repo charge, and is the direct cost for moving the empty cargo container and chassis to the closest hub.
Pre-Pull Charges
This charge occurs when a shipper cannot accept the delivery before the last available free day granted by the port, but still wants the carrier to pick up the container. This is often done to avoid being charged port demurrage fees.
By paying the pre-pull charge, the carrier will remove the container from port and generally keep it in a storage yard until you can receive the delivery.
There are a few scenarios where this might happen:
· Consignee (recipient) isn’t ready
· Shipments arriving to port before a holiday or weekend, thus using up all free days
· Port congestion has caused free days to be limited
CONTAINER LIMITATION
Special equipment is available in some North American locations for overweight containers to be handled legally.
Some states have higher weight limitations with permits. See grid below:
- Additional weight permits are for 40FT only where available.
- All states are 80,000 G.V.W. except those where Permits are available up to a specified weight limit. Note - G.V.W. means Gross Vehicle Weight and is the weight of the container, cargo and tractor.
- Any Permit requests are required to be submitted through the Exception Handling Process and an SSR secured for additional costs and special handling.
State/Province G.V.W. *G.V.W. w/ Permit Single Axle Tandem Axle
Alabama 80,000 100,000 20,000 34,000
Alaska 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Alberta 86,000 n/a 56,000 86,000
Arizona 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Arkansas 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
British Columbia 86,000 n/a 56,000 86,000
California ** 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Colorado 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Connecticut 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Delaware 80,000 90,000 22,000 34,000
Florida 80,000 95,000 20,000 34,000
Georgia 80,000 100,000 20,000 34,000
Idaho 80,000 105,000 20,000 34,000
Illinois 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Indiana 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Iowa 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Kansas 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Kentucky 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Louisiana 80,000 n/a n/a 40,000
Maine 80,000 99,000 20,000 34,000
Manitoba 82,700 n/a 20,000 35,000
Maryland 80,000 90,000 22,000 40,000
Massachusetts 80,000 99,000 20,000 34,000
Michigan 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Minnesota 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Mississippi 80,000 95,000 20,000 34,000
Missouri 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Montana 80,000 105,000 20,000 34,000
Nebraska 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Nevada 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
New Brunswick 97,000 n/a 19,900 39,700
Newfoundland 97,000 n/a 19,900 39,700
New Hampshire 80,000 99,000 20,000 34,000
New Jersey 80,000 90,000 20,000 34,000
New Mexico 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
New York 80,000 88,000 20,000 34,000
North Carolina 80,000 94,000 20,000 34,000
North Dakota 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Nova Scotia 97,000 n/a 19,900 39,700
Ohio 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Oklahoma 80,000 95,000 20,000 40,000
Ontario 97,000 n/a 19,900 39,700
Oregon 80,000 105,000 22,400 36,000
Pennsylvania 80,000 90,000 20,000 34,000
Prince Edward Island 97,000 n/a 20,000 40,000
Quebec 90,961 n/a 39,682 46,296
Rhode Island 80,000 99,000 20,000 34,000
Saskatoon 86,000 n/a 56,000 86,000
South Carolina 80,000 100,000 20,000 48,000
South Dakota 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Tennessee 80,000 90,000 20,000 34,000
Texas 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Utah 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Vermont 80,000 99,000 20,000 34,000
Virginia 80,000 90,000 20,000 34,000
Washington 80,000 105,500 20,000 34,000
West Virginia 80,000 88,000 20,000 34,000
Wisconsin 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
Wyoming 80,000 n/a 20,000 34,000
* Gross Vehicle Weight in lbs.
** see the chart for Long Beach/Los Angeles Maximum Weight
Export Intermodal cargo moving over Los Angeles/Long Beach Gateway
In order to ensure over the road safety export containers, rail billing requests received that exceed the following cargo weight limitations will be subject to rejection:
a) 20' (general purpose) in excess of 44,000 cargo weight lbs
b) 20' (reefer) in excess of 41,500 cargo weight lbs
c) 40' (general purpose) in excess of 44,500 cargo weight lbs
d) 40' (reefer) in excess of 41,500 cargo weight lbs
e) 45' in excess of 41,500 cargo weight lbs