Destination
Miami to Fort Lauderdale
Port Everglades is here, so most Fort Lauderdale freight is a short local pull rather than a lane. If the box landed at PortMiami instead, ask us whether it should have.
Get a quote
Tell us the port, the box and the delivery address and we will price Fort Lauderdale both ways where it is worth it.
Or email quotes@dariaslogistics.com.
Last free day today or tomorrow?
The clock runs at the port, not on the road
Demurrage starts at the terminal the day after your last free day, whether the freight is going five miles or five hundred. We pre-pull the container onto the yard first and run to Fort Lauderdale when you are ready, rather than letting the box sit at the terminal earning charges while the receiver sorts out a door.
Straight through
The box goes to Fort Lauderdale
Short enough that the container runs through on a chassis and comes back the same day. No handling, no second touch, and the empty is back before per diem becomes a conversation.
The run from the port to Fort Lauderdale
Port Everglades is in Fort Lauderdale, so this is barely a lane at all. About 5 road miles, same day, and the container goes through on a chassis. The real questions are which terminal the box is sitting on and what the appointment looks like, because the drive is over almost before it starts.
At five miles nothing about a transload makes sense. The box is pulled, delivered, emptied live or dropped, and the empty is back at the gate the same day. If the container landed at PortMiami instead, that is a 30-mile run north and worth asking about, because sometimes the freight did not have to land where it did.
Delivering in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is in Broward County, with Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport side by side at its southern edge and I-95 and US 1 running through it. Addresses near the port are industrial and thoroughly used to containers. Further into the city the sites get more commercial, and that is where a 40 ft box on a chassis starts to run out of room to turn.
Send the container number, the steamship line, the last free day, the delivery address and whether the unload is live or a drop, and flag any address that is not a plain industrial dock so the right equipment comes with it.
What runs it
Everything we run
20ft standard
20' GP / 22G1
20ft high cube
20' HC / 25G1
40ft standard
40' GP / 42G1
40ft high cube
40' HC / 45G1
45ft high cube
45' HC / L5G1
45ft high cube, 102in wide
45' HC wide body, 102in
20ft reefer
20' RF / 22R1
40ft reefer
40' RF / 42R1
40ft high cube reefer
40' RH / 45R1
Open top
20' 22U1 / 40' 42U1
Flat rack
20' / 40' FR
ISO tank
20' tank
Overweight containers
any, over legal gross
Bonded and in-bond
any, under customs bond
Flatbed
The default open deck, in 48ft and 53ft. Loads from the side, the top or the back, and anything over 8ft 6in of cargo height starts needing a permit.
Step deck
A dropped main deck buys about 18 inches of legal cargo height over a flatbed. Also called a drop deck.
Double drop
A fixed well between two raised decks, for tall freight that does not need to be driven on.
Lowboy
The lowest deck there is, for tall and heavy machines. Short well, so length is usually the constraint rather than weight.
Piggyback forklift
A rough-terrain forklift that rides on a mounting kit at the rear of the flatbed and unloads where there is no dock and no site equipment. The freight pays for it twice: in the surcharge and in the payload its weight displaces, which is why it is quoted only where it saves more than it costs.
RGN, removable gooseneck
The gooseneck detaches so the deck becomes a ramp and the machine drives on. Extendable and multi-axle versions carry the heaviest and longest loads we handle.
Stretch flatbed and step deck
Extendable decks for freight that is legal on weight but far too long, like beams, blades and pipe. The deck stretches to support the load rather than letting it overhang.
Multi-axle heavy haul
More axles under the same deck, so the weight spreads far enough to permit. This is where transformers, presses and plant equipment ride.
Conestoga
A rolling tarp on a frame, so freight loads from the side like a flatbed but travels covered like a van. No tarping crew, no weather risk.
Dry van
Enclosed, palletized freight, in 48ft and 53ft. The default for anything transloaded out of a container for an inland run.
Reefer trailer
Temperature-controlled van, in 48ft and 53ft. What a reefer container becomes when the freight transloads for an inland run.
Before it leaves Hialeah Gardens
One warehouse in Hialeah Gardens, over 50 dock doors
Everything that happens off the chassis happens here, in Hialeah Gardens, a short run from the ports, before the freight goes anywhere. Transload, cross-dock, storage, or shipping and receiving in your name. On a short lane like Fort Lauderdale it is usually the answer when the receiver has no dock, rather than a cost question.
What lands on the invoice
- Chassis
- The trailer the container rides on. If it is not where the container is, that is a chassis split and an extra trip.
- Pre-pull
- Collecting the box before you are ready, to stop terminal storage running. Almost always cheaper than the demurrage it avoids.
- Demurrage
- The terminal charging you for cargo sitting inside the gate past the last free day.
The rest of it
Questions
Straight answers
My container landed at PortMiami but the delivery is in Fort Lauderdale. What changes?
The drive, mostly. From Port Everglades it is about 5 road miles. From PortMiami it is roughly 30 north up I-95 or the Turnpike, still a same day move but a longer one with a different gate and a different appointment. It is worth asking before the next booking whether the freight could discharge at Port Everglades instead, because that is where the saving actually sits.
Is a Fort Lauderdale delivery quicker than one further into Broward?
Usually, because Port Everglades is inside the city and the drive is only about five miles. What decides the day is the terminal appointment, the queue at the gate and whether your door is free when the driver gets there. Five miles of road cannot be made shorter, so the time you actually control on this lane is all at your own end.
How long does it take to get freight from Miami to Fort Lauderdale?
Same day, over roughly 5 road miles. That is the drive; the bigger variable is usually the terminal appointment at the Miami end, not the road.
Should my container go through to Fort Lauderdale, or be transloaded?
Through, on this lane. It is short enough that the box goes and comes back the same day, so there is nothing to gain by handling the freight twice.
Anything particular about the Fort Lauderdale lane?
Port Everglades is here, so most Fort Lauderdale freight is a short local pull rather than a lane. If the box landed at PortMiami instead, ask us whether it should have.
Do you go beyond Florida?
Yes, all 48 states, generally transloaded to a trailer first.
What is the last free day?
The last day your container can sit inside the terminal before storage charges start. Miss it and demurrage begins accruing daily, which is why a pre-pull is almost always cheaper than waiting.
What is a pre-pull?
We collect the container from the terminal before you are ready for it and hold it on a yard. It stops demurrage running at terminal rates and it takes the pressure off your receiving schedule.
How do I get a rate?
Send the lane, the equipment, the container size and the port, and we come back with a number. Quotes and dispatch run 24 hours a day at quotes@dariaslogistics.com.
What does a drayage quote actually include?
The move itself, plus the accessorials people get surprised by later: chassis, pre-pull, per diem, demurrage, detention and storage. We would rather name them up front than add them to an invoice.