Southern Cartage, Inc. serves the South Florida market including the Port of Miami and Port Everglades as well as area rails with our trucking services.
Southern Cartage East, Inc. serves the Florida ports of Tampa, Jacksonville, and Manatee, other Florida rails, as well as the Ports of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Southern Companies is a drayage carrier running containers out of seven Southeast ports. Whether the box sits at the port or on a rail ramp, we get it to the dock.
Before a truck rolls, we’ve already sorted out what the move needs: the right equipment for the load, the dimensions, a route that works for that cargo, and any permits required. The goal is that your container doesn’t stall at the gate or get turned around at the receiver.
We run drayage out of seven Southeast ports: Miami, Port Everglades, Tampa, Port Manatee, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston. We also pick up and deliver at the rail ramps we support in those markets. Every move is planned around what the load needs: the right equipment, its dimensions, a route that works for it, and any permits required. That way the truck that shows up is the one the cargo calls for.
| Container Sizes | Specialty | Overweight |
|---|---|---|
| 20′, 40′, 45′ | Open tops, flat racks, reefer, hazmat | 20′ and 40′ containers, with triaxle equipment and permits |
We haul 20′, 40′, and 45′ containers, including open tops and flat racks, plus reefer and hazmat. We also run overweight 20′ and 40′ containers, with the triaxle equipment and permits required to haul them legally.
Tell us what you’re moving and where, and we’ll tell you what it takes.
Southern has implemented a tight and on-going communication system to better serve its customers, with the ability to provide both current and historical information. This web-based, automated system tracks and stores all moves and dispatches drivers. In addition, experienced dispatchers work closely with drivers, who are offered Electronic Logging Device (ELD) capabilities that include GPS tracking information. Direct contact with drivers is possible via cellular phones; while fixed, in-vehicle cameras provide added safety features. Electronic data interchange with all major shipping lines and online access to Southeast and Southwest ports complement this communication system, ensuring immediate notifications when products have cleared customs and have been freight released.
We run on owner-operators, and Southern plans and runs each move from the terminal or rail ramp to final delivery. The chassis they pull come from three places: our own equipment, leased equipment, and managed pools where large national providers guarantee us capacity.
That gives us more than one place to find a chassis when a container is ready to move.
Southern is a bonded carrier. See Bonded Transportation for the details.
We track our trucks with Samsara and work from our dispatch systems and each shipping line’s and terminal’s portal, so you’re not calling around for a status update.
Part of GEODIS, still Southern. Same name, same leadership.
Send us your lanes, and we’ll come back with a quote. See what we need to quote a move in our drayage FAQs.
Our customers can rest assured that Southern will meet their transportation needs.
Key Points
Visit our Documents page to find trucking-related documents for both Southern Cartage and Southern Cartage East.