Where does an intermodal container usually go from a sea port?

From DC’s to retailers is dedicated. I do that for wallyworld. Great job. I got home twice for Christmas.
OTR is often between DC’s. I’ve done that before. Or would be to a DC.

I do wonder if they ever load trains of shipping containers straight from the ship?
Of course can’t always.

 

Lots of cheaper stuff is put on container I would say. Because one it comes off the boat. They can also put on train and ship to another container yard.

The good stuff like TVs I hauled, actually come from Mexico on a truck. They load the trailer in Mexico seal the trailer. Then bring it to border town. The Mexican truckers drop the trailer and I would hook up to trailer and drive them cross country. to a DC.

Here some interesting I think they were doing. I don't think the TV's were made in Mexico. They were made in China or someplace. The paperwork said something about how the TVs were sold to say Samsung of Mexico. Then sold to the USA buyer like Best Buy. Remember we have free trade with Mexico and Canada, NAFTA. I think they put them on boat to Mexico. Samsung of China sells the TVs to Samsung of Mexico. Probably no taxes. Then Samsung of Mexico sells the TV to say Best Buy and trucks them into USA tax free. If they put them on a boat from China to USA. They probably would have import taxes. They were moving crazy amount of TVs when they first had flat screed TV

 

I picked up container in newark nj just outside the port there and took it all the way to long beach cali where it was to be loaded and go to jc pennys in hawaii.

 

The only drivers going to ports is flatbed and can drivers. The occasional van trailer can be found there depends which port ur going to.

 

No, US CBP would be all over that. The TVs are made in Mexico.

Tijuana is recognized as being a world leader in the production of plasma, HDTV and LCD television sets. Television manufacturing in Tijuana became a major industrial activity in the city’s electronics sector during the 1980s...

Samsung opened an integrated manufacturing plant in Tijuana in 1996.

In 2014, Chinese business concerns expanded their television manufacturing in Tijuana, when the TCL purchased Sanyo’s Tijuana factory. TCL is the third largest HDTV brand in the world. Their purchase of Sanyo’s Tijuana facilities was driven by the desire to establish a production beachhead that would allow them to reduce the distance required to ship product to the world’s largest consumer market.

- Television manufacturing in Tijuana is king | The Tecma Group​

 

5-6000 middlemen.

 

I don't know what is made where. I would remind that there is a difference between a manufacturing plant and an assembly plant. There is no telling where these parts are actually made. I have hauled empty trailers from the Georgetown Ky assembly plant up into Michigan and Northern Indiana bringing full trailers back. I believe there (at least used to be) is/was an electronics assembly plant near the crossing of I 75 and the Ohio Turnpike.

 

So if I were to drive for OTR for any mega like Swift, Hunt etc. dry-van or reefer, chances are I'd never see a port or a railhead? What are the odds I'd ever see a military installation employed in that capacity?

It sounds most likely that I would be driving from DC to DC the way mainline freight train crews travel railroad yard to railroad yard over the fruited plain. Ideally, I would like no military installations involved in any employment as a driver or any places that are particularly dangerous with respect to violent criminal activity.

 

Thr big mega carriers use the rails a lot. Tons of 53 foot dry vans being shipped across the country by rail.

 

I would not recoomend being a truck driver if u dont want to go to dangerous places. That is the bulk of our work