What's included in the pickup and delivery fee?

The pickup and delivery fee is the cost of the trucker moving your cargo from one place to another — most often from the port of entry to your final destination, like your warehouse. It shows on your quote or invoice as Pickup & Delivery, or it may be folded into the freight cost. Optional trucking add-ons are billed separately.

Pickup and delivery is the standard trucking that gets your cargo from the port to where it needs to go after it clears customs. On your quote or invoice it appears in one of two ways:

• As a separate Pickup & Delivery line item, or

• Included within the freight cost.

Either way, it covers the ordinary drayage or truck move to your delivery address.

Some trucking situations fall outside the basic move. When they apply, they're shown as their own line items rather than bundled into pickup and delivery — for example a wait fee, a drop fee, or a chassis fee. These only appear if they're actually incurred. For a full-container move, Trucking and drayage for FCL walks through when each one applies. For the broader picture of conditional fees, see What's included vs excluded in your pricing.

Your container clears customs at the port. The trucker hauls it to your warehouse — that's the Pickup & Delivery fee. Because your team unloads it within the free time, no wait fee is added, so pickup and delivery is the only trucking line on your invoice.

Your Prime Freight team arranges the trucking as part of getting your cargo delivered, and works with your receiving warehouse to pick the most cost-effective option. For how the whole invoice fits together, see How to read your invoice.

• How to read your invoice

• What's included vs excluded in your pricing

• Trucking and drayage for FCL

• Freight & shipping glossary