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Owner-operator work and office roles in Hialeah Gardens
No company-driver positions: the trucks belong to owner-operators who either keep their own authority and run on our dispatch, or lease on to ours. Plus the office roles that are ours, what the terminals require, and how to reach us.
Darias Logistics Corp is a small company doing a demanding job: containers off the South Florida ports, on a clock somebody else set. Dispatch, quoting, billing and documents are ours. The trucks belong to owner-operators and carriers who run with us. Both are below, and they are different conversations.
On the road
You own the truck. These are the two ways to run it with us, and they are different arrangements rather than two names for one.
Owner-operator, on your own authority
OpenIndependent contractor · Based anywhere; the desk is in Hialeah Gardens
You keep your operating authority and your insurance. We find and negotiate your freight, vet the broker, and turn your paperwork around to your own factor. The broker pays you, never us.
What it asks of you
- Active operating authority and insurance that survives being read
- A truck that will pass an inspection and a record that will survive one
- Paperwork sent the day it is signed, because that is what makes the turnaround real
Owner-operator, leased to our authority
OpenLeased contractor, 49 CFR Part 376 · South Florida preferred
You bring the truck and the driving. We become the motor carrier of record: our authority, our filings, our liability and cargo cover on the unit, and a written lease that says exactly how and when you are paid.
What it asks of you
- A truck you own or already lease, and non-trucking liability
- A driving record that can carry our safety record, because under our authority it becomes ours
- Willingness to read the lease before signing it, and to ask about anything in it
Not sure which of the two suits your truck? Open either one and say so on the form. It is a normal answer and the desk will walk you through it.
Dispatch
The desk that moves the freight. Containers come off a terminal on a clock somebody else set, and this is the job of getting the right truck there before that clock costs the customer money.
Drayage dispatcher
Not openPlan the day off the port and ramp schedules, assign the moves, watch the last free days, and call the customer before they have to call you. Knowing which terminal is running slow this week is most of the job.
Truckload dispatcher
Not openWork the boards and the brokers on lanes out of Florida, negotiate the rate, and keep the truck loaded in both directions rather than one.
Weekend and after-hours cover
Not openA container on its last free day does not wait for Monday. This is the shift that makes the published hours real instead of a phone diverted to voicemail.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
Billing and documents
Most of the delay between a load delivering and the money arriving is a document, not a bank. This department is the reason that gap is short.
Billing clerk
Not openInvoice the move against what was actually quoted, line by line, so an accessorial never turns up as a surprise on a customer's statement.
Documents and POD clerk
Not openChase, check and correct the bill of lading, the proof of delivery and the rate confirmation the hour they arrive, because that is what turns a week into a day.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
Accounting
Freight is a business of thin margins and long payment terms, so the arithmetic has to be right and it has to be current.
Accounts receivable
Not openFollow the money that is owed without damaging the relationship it came from, and know the difference between a customer who forgot and a customer who is in trouble.
Payables and carrier settlements
Not openPay the carriers and the leased owner-operators on the schedule they were promised, with every deduction disclosed the way the lease says it will be.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
Warehouse operations
The building in Hialeah Gardens: containers unloaded, freight put away, orders shipped, and every pallet in a position somebody can find.
Warehouse lead
Not openRun the floor for the day: what gets unloaded, what ships, who is on which door, and whether the paperwork left with the freight.
Forklift operator
Not openUnload the container, palletize what came in floor-loaded, and put it where the system says it went rather than where there was room.
Inventory and receiving clerk
Not openCheck in what arrived against what was supposed to arrive, photograph the damage before anybody argues about it, and keep the WMS honest.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
Quoting and customer service
Every rate this company gives is in writing, and somebody has to be the person who writes it and then answers for it.
Quoting analyst
Not openPrice the move off the rate card and the real distance, name every accessorial that could land on it, and say no to the ones that cannot be done for the money.
Customer service
Not openBe the person who knows where the container is and says so first, in English or Spanish, before the customer has to ask twice.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
Safety and compliance
Authority, insurance, filings and audits. The unglamorous department that decides whether any of the others get to keep working.
Compliance coordinator
Not openKeep the federal and state filings current, watch the renewal calendar, run the drug and alcohol programme, and be ready for an audit before one is announced.
Safety
Not openDriver qualification files, inspections, incident follow-up, and the habit of fixing the cause rather than the paperwork.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
IT and systems
This company runs a warehouse management system, a rate engine, a public quoting tool and a site in nine languages. Somebody has to keep all of it true.
Internal tools developer
Not openBuild the small things that remove a daily manual step: a report nobody has to assemble, a form that validates before dispatch sees it, a number that renders from its source instead of being typed.
Data and reporting
Not openTurn what the operation already records into something a decision can be made from, and publish the figures we promise to publish, including in the months they are not flattering.
Systems and integrations
Not openThe WMS, the load boards, the email and the accounting stack, and the joins between them that are currently a person copying and pasting.
Nothing open in this department today. The roles above are what this work actually is here, so if you do one of them well, write anyway: the list of people worth calling is how hiring here has happened.
What we do not have
There are no company-driver positions here. We do not put drivers in trucks we own, so if you are looking for a seat in somebody else's truck, this is not that, and we would rather you knew it now than after an email. What exists is above: two ways to run a truck you already own, and the departments this company is actually built out of.
Carriers with their own fleet
Separately from either of those: a good part of this freight moves on carriers we work with, running their own authority and their own insurance. If you pull containers out of PortMiami, Port Everglades or the Florida East Coast ramps and you want to be on the list we call, introduce yourself.
What the work asks for is the same thing the terminals ask for. A TWIC for anybody going through a secure gate. Endorsements and placarding that match the freight, because a load that is wrong on paper does not leave the yard. Insurance that survives being read. And the plain thing that decides whether the second call happens: the container arrives when it was promised, and when it will not, somebody says so early.
How the office side works
Operations happen where the freight is. The yard is staffed on site every day. Quoting, billing and documents work remotely and come in when being together helps rather than because a chair has to be filled.
Dispatch cover does not change either way: somebody is reachable around the clock, on site or not, because a container on its last free day does not wait for office hours. Shifts are built so that cover is real rather than a phone diverted to voicemail.
Vaccine policy
No vaccine requirement, for employment or for running freight with us. Individual customer facilities set their own site access rules, which are theirs rather than ours, and a driver is told in advance when a delivery carries one.
How to reach us
Email quotes@dariaslogistics.com. For an office role, say what you have run and what you want to run next; a resume is welcome and not required. For a carrier, send your authority, your insurance certificate, the equipment you run and the terminals you already pull from, and you will get a straight answer either way.
Or send it on one short form, which asks what we would have asked back:
常见问题
直接回答
怎么拿到运价？
把线路、设备、集装箱尺寸和港口发过来，我们回一个数字。报价和调度24小时都有人，邮箱 quotes@dariaslogistics.com。
一份拖车报价里到底包含什么？
运输本身，加上那些事后最容易让人措手不及的附加费：底盘车、提前提箱、滞箱费、滞港费、车辆滞留费和仓储费。我们宁可一开始就把它们说清楚，也不愿意事后加到账单上。
可以打电话吗？
可以。所有内容仍然以书面确认：报给您的价格就是您邮箱里的价格，附加费逐项列出，不用靠谁记得电话里说过什么。
订一只箱子需要提前多久？
越早越好，尤其是免堆期最后一天已经临近的时候。当天通常也能做；提前一两天，我们就有闸口时段可以挑。
放箱需要我提供什么？
集装箱号、bill of lading（提单）或订舱号、船公司或您货代出的 delivery order（提货单）、海关放行，以及送货地址和收货时间。
你们和货代、报关行合作吗？
我们的业务大部分就是他们介绍来的。我们接过 delivery order，负责搞定码头，并且向统筹这票货的人回报进度。
你们每天运多少集装箱？
在 PortMiami、Port Everglades 和南佛罗里达的铁路场站之间，每天超过 300 个，一年约 100,000 个，按港口通用的 TEU 计算超过 150,000。正是这个体量，让您的集装箱需要时几乎总有底盘车和预约时段。
运力紧张，没有承运人接我的货。你们能接吗？
我们喜欢这样的来电。就算所有人都说下周，也把货发给我们：网络每天运转超过 300 个集装箱，通常都有车；真没有车时，您几分钟内就会得到答复，而不是沉默。不用合同，没有最低货量；一票货、一份书面报价，我们大多数经纪人关系就是这样开始的。
报价多快能回来？
通常 10 分钟内，以书面形式，任何时间。给您报价的调度台就是派车的调度台，报价从不等早班。超限件或多站运输可能需要更久，我们会提前说明，而不是没有下文。
什么是免堆期最后一天（last free day）？
您的箱子可以免费停在码头里面的最后一天。过了这一天，滞港费就开始按天累计，所以提前提箱几乎总是比干等便宜。
什么是提前提箱（pre-pull）？
在您准备好收货之前，我们先把箱子从码头提出来，放在堆场上。这样滞港费就不会按码头的费率往上跑，您的收货安排也不用再赶。
滞港费、滞箱费和车辆滞留费有什么区别？
这是三笔来自不同收费方的费用。滞港费是码头向您收的，因为超过免费时间之后货还留在闸口里面。滞箱费是船公司向您收的，因为超过免费时间之后您还占着他们的箱子。车辆滞留费是卡车方的时间成本，司机在您的月台等候超过免费时段之后开始计算。这三笔可以同时在跑，账单就是这样很快变得难看的。
什么是 chassis split？
您需要的底盘车不在集装箱所在的地点，卡车得先多跑一趟去取，然后才谈得上提箱。这要多花一趟运输，也是拖车账单上最常见的意外条目。
怎么把这些费用压下来？
盯住免堆期最后一天；月台没准备好就先提前提箱；条件允许就用 drop and pick（甩挂）而不是现场卸货；计划有变就尽早告诉我们。几乎每一张金额很大的附加费账单，追溯回去都是一个晚了一天做出的决定。