Can my old truck pick up cars from California ports?

Vehicles to the ports, usually go to the warehouse where the vehicles are loaded into a container, then they take the container to the port for overseas shipment. The exception that I know of is cars to Hawaii, I have delivered them to Matson, who has their own ships and docks. was not a problem, my old truck was ok. There may be other places that won't work, just ask before you agree to haul the vehicle.

 

I used to run the Cali ports before the CARB thing and I remember that heavy hauls and oversized were exempt from the PM requirements. Maybe car hauling falls into that category too?

 

Your truck is exepmt in the port if your truck is PTO run. If not you will have to be 08 or newer. I used to pick up nissan product in wilmington for United Road. Who are you gonna be picking for?

 

When I was with my former company, we hauled Nissan out of Long Beach and Richmond, CA, Jaguar and Mercedes out of Port Hueneme, and we were getting some out of National City (I forget what). You are gonna need a TWIC card and also need to go on the port website and register your truck. Now I hear that there is another permit for CARB diesel.

FYI, unless you have some one off hauls, moving Imports out of any of the Ports is a pain in the HOO HOO. All the OEM's are looking for it for free. Years ago we gave up Nissan cuz you can only sharpen the pencil so much. We had even given them a "backhaul" rate as we had a Ford "headhaul" that got the trucks over there, and that rate was too high for them. The next carrier that got the business (their name escapes me now) bid it as a headhaul, got into AZ and had nothing to go home with...it did not take long for them to go by the wayside.

 

Good Luck. Hope it works out for you.

 

That sounds like Jesse over at Exel. I agree Nissan always takes the low bidder no matter the service level. However that being said, Jesse bends over and takes it because he is a thief. He doesnt care about his drivers and guys buying trucks from him. He is always an extreme low bidder. All his contracts are super cheap.I hauled new cars from 05 to 08. Money was great! When the economy tanked, big companies all cut their rates to keep contracts. Well #### rolls down hill. They cut their rates now they take anywhere from 15-21% for their fee then you get the rest. Car hauling has gone to ####!