Twenty minutes from Inland Port Greer.
Inland Port Greer handled 197,805 rail moves in 2025 and runs to the Port of Charleston on Norfolk Southern six nights a week. Our yard is seventeen miles away. Drayage in the Upstate is short, repetitive and schedule-driven, which is exactly the kind of work an asset carrier should be doing.
Illustrative photography — not Prime Trans equipment.What is container drayage?
Drayage is the short truck move that connects a container to the rest of its journey: port or rail ramp to a warehouse, warehouse back to the ramp, or ramp to ramp. It is measured in tens of miles rather than hundreds, and it is priced per move rather than per mile.
Two ports, one of them inland.
- Inland Port Greer197,805 rail moves in calendar 2025 with a $55 million expansion lifting annual rail-lift capacity toward 300,000. Norfolk Southern runs overnight service to Charleston six days a week.
- Port of CharlestonMore than 2.6 million TEUs in calendar 2025, about three hours down I-26.
- Inland Port Dillon48,761 rail containers in 2025, serving the Pee Dee on the CSX side.
- What that means for youAn Upstate box has a genuine choice between an overnight rail move and a three-hour truck move, and the right answer depends on your free time, not on which one a salesman prefers.
And we will say so.
Inland Port Greer exists so that Upstate containers ride the rail overnight instead of running a truck to Charleston and back. If your box is not time-critical and your free time allows it, the ramp is usually cheaper and it is certainly less exposed to traffic on I-26. We make more money on the truck move and we will still tell you when the ramp is the better answer, because a customer who was steered wrong once stops calling.
Short moves, on a schedule.
- Ramp to door — Greer or Dillon to the warehouse, live unload or drop.
- Door to ramp — loaded export boxes back to the ramp against a cut-off.
- Port runs — Charleston to the Upstate on I-26 when the schedule demands the road.
- Transload — container to trailer at a cross-dock when the freight needs to keep moving domestically.
- Empty returns — scheduled so the box goes back before per-diem starts.
- Plant shuttles — the same trucks running dedicated turns for the same customer.
Per move, against a clock.
| Rate basis | Per move within a defined radius, plus fuel. Chassis, pre-pull, storage and per-diem are pass-through and are stated on the quote |
|---|---|
| Free time | Tell us the last free day at booking. Almost every drayage problem is a free-time problem discovered too late |
| Chassis | Say whether it is carrier-supplied, pool or your own; it changes the price and the availability |
| Appointments | Ramp and port appointments are handled by us. We will tell you when the first available slot is later than you want to hear |
| Insurance | Auto liability $1,000,000 · Cargo $1,000,000 · General liability $1,000,000 |
Honest scope: we are a small Upstate carrier doing short-radius drayage, not a national intermodal provider with chassis pools in forty cities. Inside the Greer, Spartanburg, Greenville and Duncan triangle we are excellent and close. Beyond it, ask us and we will tell you plainly.
Straight answers
How far is your yard from Inland Port Greer?
Seventeen miles, about twenty-two minutes on I-85. That proximity is the whole argument for using us on Upstate drayage — the empty miles you pay for on every move are shorter.
Should I use Inland Port Greer or truck to Charleston?
If the container is not time-critical and your free time allows it, the ramp is usually cheaper and it moves overnight on Norfolk Southern six days a week. If it is time-critical or the ramp appointment is too far out, the road wins. Ask and we will tell you which, honestly.
Do you supply chassis?
It depends on the move and the ramp. Tell us whether you have your own, a pool arrangement or need us to source one, because it materially changes the price and sometimes the availability.
Can you handle overweight containers?
Up to legal gross with the right chassis configuration. Anything above that needs a permit and a route, and it becomes an open-deck or heavy-haul conversation instead.
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