Warehouse Moving Along Hwy 99 and I-5

Two docks decide the schedule. At each building we check the dock height against our truck, whether the dock plate or leveler works, and whether a grade-level door is the better fit for a box truck. We also ask who else uses the truck court. In a multi-tenant building along I-5 or at McClellan Park, a neighbor's outbound trailers may own the court at certain hours, and the property manager may want our insurer's paperwork on file before any truck backs in.

Inbound and outbound freight usually keeps flowing until the last day, so the move itself is often booked for a Saturday, or for the hours after the final dispatch, on request. In July and August, dock work in the Valley starts early: a trailer and an unshaded dock are hot by early afternoon, and we plan the heaviest pallets for the cool hours.

Pallets are checked before they move. Anything with a broken deck board, a leaning stack or loose wrap is re-wrapped or rebuilt with your team's agreement, because a load that shifts in transit can take a whole row with it. Pallets are strapped in the truck with the heavy side down, and pick bins ride upright with lids on or taped.

Floors and doors take the other hits. Threshold edges are covered, jacks stay on the marked path, and loaded jacks avoid any floor plates or expansion joints your manager flags. At the new building each pallet is set at its tagged location, or in a staging zone your inventory lead names if storage there is not ready. Your team scans or counts it in; we never adjust the count.