An I-10 market, quoted from our Los Angeles team
We do not have a Houston street address on this site. We are a Los Angeles–based brokerage that quotes Houston freight regularly, especially on lanes to and from California. Use this page when the dock is in Houston or a nearby city such as Pasadena, Sugar Land, Katy, or Baytown. Use Los Angeles to Houston freight when Southern California is the other end, and use the California to Texas page when you want a broader Texas destination.
Houston is a major port and industrial market. A lot of the work we quote here is still warehouse-to-warehouse domestic freight: food, grocery, beverages, packaging, and general palletized goods moving in dry vans or reefers. If a shipment is coming off a marine terminal or a rail yard and needs to move to your building, mention drayage in the notes. Packaged, palletized products that fit an enclosed trailer are what we cover; open-deck or bulk tank freight is not.
Food, grocery, and appointment-driven receivers
Grocery and food-service warehouses in the Houston area often require appointments and may have lumper or check-in procedures, just as they do in Dallas or in the Inland Empire. Include those details. Inbound produce and frozen foods from California should be quoted as reefer, with a set point and any pulping notes. See produce shipping and delivery appointments.
The lane is not interchangeable with Dallas
Houston and Dallas are different distances, different receivers, and different quotes. Planning transit ranges for the Los Angeles-to-Houston lane are on the lane page, and are not a guarantee. If you have a required delivery date, put it in the notes.
Outbound from Houston to California should use the exact California destination city, especially when the warehouse is in the Inland Empire rather than in the city of Los Angeles.
What to send
- The Houston-area city or ZIP
- The other end of the lane
- Equipment, commodity, and weight or pallet count
- Set point for reefer
- Appointment, lumper, or terminal notes