Destination
Miami to Medley
The densest container yard and warehouse district in Miami-Dade, and the default answer when someone asks where a box should go. Short enough that overweight moves stay simple and the empty is back the same day.
Get a quote
Tell us the port, the box and the delivery address and we will price Medley 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 Medley 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 Medley
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 Medley
Most Medley containers come off PortMiami, and some off the Hialeah rail ramps a few minutes north. It is about 15 road miles either way, a same day move, and the box goes through on a chassis rather than being handled twice. At that distance a transload would cost you a second touch of the freight and buy nothing back.
Through means the container itself arrives at your door on a chassis, gets unloaded while the driver waits or gets dropped if you have the room, and the empty goes straight back to the terminal or on to the street turn it is due at. Same day return is the whole point of a lane this short: the per diem clock barely gets going.
Delivering in Medley
Medley sits in Miami-Dade along the Okeechobee Road and NW 74th Street corridor, minutes from the Hialeah rail ramps, with State Road 826 and the Florida Turnpike both on its edge. A receiver needs room for a 40 ft box on a chassis, which is roughly seventy feet of vehicle that has to get in and back out, and either a dock or a forklift and a firm ground level plan.
Tell us whether the site is first come or appointment only, and send the container number, the steamship line, the last free day, the delivery address and whether you want a live unload or a drop. That is enough to quote it and put it on a day.
A town built for freight
Medley is an industrial town first. It has fewer than 1,000 residents and about 1,800 businesses, and on a weekday, once workers and visitors are counted, about 60,000 people are in town. Most of its 5.98 square miles is zoned for light manufacturing, with a smaller heavy manufacturing tract.
The Florida East Coast Railway's freight line runs through it and serves businesses along the tracks, and FEC's southern corporate office and its Beacon Station warehouse complex are here. NW 74th Street through the town was fully rebuilt by FDOT east of the Palmetto, with new signals and drainage, finished in June 2024.
Water on two sides
The Miami Canal is the town's border with Hialeah Gardens and Hialeah, and FEMA puts about half of Medley in special flood hazard areas. The ground is flat and low, and the canals can back up in heavy rain.
That matters for a drop. A container left in a yard near a canal in the rainy season sits on ground that can flood, so in summer a live unload, or a drop on the higher part of the lot, is the safer plan.
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 Medley 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
Is a Medley delivery a same day turn?
Yes on most days. It is about 15 road miles from PortMiami, so the box can be pulled, delivered, unloaded and the empty returned inside one shift. What stretches it is the terminal appointment and the gate queue, not the drive. If your dock is first come and busy, say so when you book, because a long wait at your end is the one thing that pushes the empty return to the next morning.
Can an overweight container be delivered in Medley?
Usually, and the short distance is why. An overweight box needs a permitted route and the right chassis, and 15 miles from PortMiami keeps that far simpler than sending the same load up the state. Send the actual gross weight on the container rather than the commercial invoice weight, and the routing gets settled before the box is pulled instead of after a scale says no.
How long does it take to get freight from Miami to Medley?
Same day, over roughly 15 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 Medley, 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 Medley lane?
The densest container yard and warehouse district in Miami-Dade, and the default answer when someone asks where a box should go. Short enough that overweight moves stay simple and the empty is back the same day.
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.