Skip to main content
Araiza Trucking Baytown, Texas
Colorful shipping containers stacked in a storage yard with tractors and chassis in the lanes

Services

Drayage, storage, and regional freight — under one DOT number.

Everything below runs on our own tractors with our own drivers. No brokered handoffs, no surprise carrier you've never heard of showing up at the gate.

01 — Core service

Port drayage & container hauling

Import pulls and export drops at the Port of Houston terminals, delivered anywhere in the Houston metro and the surrounding coastal counties.

We run day cabs on chassis for 20-, 40-, and 45-foot containers, handling general freight and intermodal loads. Because our yard sits on East Texas Avenue in Baytown, a Bayport or Barbours Cut turn is a short move for us — which means more turns per day and less waiting on your last free day.

Import delivery

Terminal pull, appointment set, delivered to the consignee's receiving window.

Export drop

Empty pickup, load at your dock, returned to the terminal ahead of the cutoff.

Live unload & drop-and-hook

Driver waits or the box gets dropped — whichever your warehouse actually supports.

Empties & street turns

Empty returns and street turns matched to a new booking where the line allows it.

A day cab tractor pulling a loaded container out of a port terminal under a bright blue sky

02 — Yard services

Container storage & chassis handling

Sometimes the box is ready before the warehouse is. Rather than let it sit at the terminal collecting demurrage, we pull it and hold it.

Loaded or empty, on chassis or grounded — stored on our yard and re-delivered by the same crew that pulled it. That continuity matters: nobody has to re-explain the load, the seal, or the delivery instructions to a new carrier.

Short-term hold

Days or weeks while receiving catches up or an appointment reschedules.

Long-term storage

Seasonal inventory and staged containers held on a monthly basis.

Chassis repositioning

Chassis moved between pools, terminals, and your facility as needed.

Per-diem mitigation

Getting the box off the terminal clock before the charges start compounding.

Rows of brightly colored containers stacked in the yard with a tractor and chassis passing through

03 — Beyond the port

Regional trucking & over-the-road

Freight that needs to travel further than a drayage radius. We hold active interstate authority and run general freight across Texas and the Gulf South.

The I-10 and I-45 corridors are our regular ground — Houston to San Antonio, Dallas, Beaumont, and into Louisiana. If you have a recurring lane, we'd rather build a dedicated schedule around it than quote it load by load.

Regional runs

Texas Triangle and Gulf Coast lanes on a same-week basis.

Interstate general freight

Authorized for-hire interstate carriage under USDOT 3474587.

Transload support

Container-to-trailer transload and warehouse-to-warehouse shuttles.

Dedicated lanes

Recurring volume priced as a contract lane instead of spot freight.

A blue tractor hauling an orange container on a Texas interstate with the Houston skyline behind

Coverage & equipment

What we can put under your freight.

Equipment and coverage summary for Araiza Trucking Company LLC
Item Detail
Power units 11 truck tractors — 6 owned, 5 term-leased
Drivers 10 CDL drivers
Cargo classifications General freight, intermodal containers
Operating authority Authorized for hire, interstate — active since September 2020
Primary terminals Port of Houston — Bayport, Barbours Cut, and Turning Basin area facilities
Core delivery area Houston metro, Baytown, La Porte, Pasadena, Channelview, Katy, and surrounding counties
Regional lanes I-10 and I-45 corridors across Texas and into the Gulf South
Registration USDOT 3474587 · MC-1138321

Carrier registration details reflect our public FMCSA filing. Certificates of insurance and W-9 available on request.

A red tractor with a blue container backed into a warehouse dock, doors open and a forklift inside

Next step

Tell us what needs to move.

Container or booking number, terminal, last free day, and the delivery address is enough for us to quote it.