Trucking Arrangement
Our trucking arrangement is only available after customs clearance has been completed and paid.
Requirements for trucking arrangement
Please send us a copy of the recipient's driver's license, as well as the delivery address and phone number through email.
Also, please specify if the delivery destination is a residential (home / house / apartment) or a business with or without and unloading dock.
Before Trucking Arrangement
If your supplier has given you an Original Bill of Lading - OBL, please sign it and send it to your US Freight Forwarder before making any trucking arrangements. All fees, including trucking expenses, warehouse fees, freight forwarder arrival notification fees, customs clearing fees, ISF filing fees, bonds fees, exam fees, and so on, must be paid in advance.
The customs clearing invoice, ISF invoice, and other relevant costs must be paid before customs clearing documents (CBP forms 7501, 3461, and DO) can be released to you.
Trucking Arrangement FAQ's
- If you need us to arrange other trucking service, please email your complete address, contact phone number, contact person, and company name (if applicable).
- All trucking arrangements are made solely on a door-to-door basis. Your shipment will not be unloaded by the trucker. You, as the importer or recipient of the shipment, are responsible for unloading it.
- If a trucker is injured while helping load or unload your products, the trucker will likely claim against you and/or your company.
- There are no cancellations, refunds, or pro-rated payments after you have booked and confirmed a trucking service (paid or not).
- The majority of trucks will give you two hours of free unloading or loading. Your trucker will charge you $75 per hour beyond 2 hours. Overtime must be paid in cash to the trucker.
- If the trucker needs to return to your location or make another trip for whatever reason, he will charge you for additional trucking expenses, drop fees, and returning the container to the port, among other things. Truck drivers must be compensated.
- Before returning to the port, the importer must sweep the container clear of any trash, etc.; otherwise, the container owner will charge you $200 or more.
- Trucks are not allowed on residential streets in most places, and the driver will charge anywhere from $150 to $500 or more. Your shipment may just be dropped off a few blocks (sidewalk) away from your home by a trucker. The City has the authority to fine you (the recipient of a shipment) up to $10,000 per shipment or container.
- You/importer must pay the whole amount in cash to the trucker if the trucker obtains a parking citation or any other fines while waiting to unload or load your shipment(s) (before unloading).
- If you are requesting special delivery of your shipment, such as lift gate and box truck, or tri-axle and overweight, oversized, and bonded truck and vehicle shipments, to meet your needs, there will be extra charges on trucking arrangements before and/or after. (Please contact us)
- Most sea shipments are on pallets. Please have your hand-pallet-lift-jack and/or forklift ready. Again, most truckers will not help with unloading or loading.
- To protect damage to your shipment, we strongly encourage you to purchase DOOR TO DOOR ALL RICK CARGO INSURANCE from your international freight forwarder/shipper for all shipments. If you don't have cargo insurance for your shipment and it gets damaged, you won't be able to file a claim for damages. If you have cargo insurance and your shipment is damaged, you must contact your international freight forwarder/shipping firm (information at your BL) with a thorough report and photos within 24 hours of receiving your package. You won't be able to claim any if you don't. (Insurance must be purchased prior to the shipment's departure from the foreign port.)
- We will invoice you for ISF Filing and Customs Clearing fees as your Customs Clearing Arrangement Agent, but you may also pay for US Customs Bonded Warehouse/Container Freight Station Warehouse fees (CFS Warehouse fees), Trucking Arrangement fees, Ocean Freight Forwarder fees (Freight Release fees), US Sea Port fees/US Airport fees, EXAMS fees, US Customs and other government agencies fees involved with your shipment arrangement. All of the charges are distinct.
- After your LCL shipment has been released by US Customs and by the US Freight Forwarder/Shipping company, please call your US-Customs-Bonded-Warehouse before the pick-up. Warehouse info will be at your (Entry/Immediate Delivery / CBP Form 3461) & # 14 (LOCATION OF GOODS-CODE NAME(S) / US Customs Bonded Warehouse.
- We are not a trucking company. We arrange trucking services only and our website is for reference.
- You must contact the trucker/dispatcher for a delivery time and date after trucking has been agreed. We are not responsible if your trucker/dispatcher alters the delivery time/date.
- For pick-up arrangements between your warehouse and your trucker, you must contact your warehouse. We are not liable for any delays or incidents caused by your warehouse or truck driver.
- You/Importer/Consignee are responsible for timely submission of all correct (above) documentation and maintaining track of your cargo.
- We reserve the right to refuse any service(s) to the consignee/importer for any reason, at any time, at any point, at any location, with or without notice, with or without pro-ration, and with or without refunds. Furthermore, if we refuse our service to any you/importer/consignee, no explanations, reasons, or causes will be provided; only a refusal will be provided.
- By replying to this reference/contents email, you are agreeing that you have read, understand, and accept the terms and conditions on our website and in this email.
- You/Importer are responsible for all fees and are bound by US Customs guidelines as well as federal, state, city, and local laws, as well as our follow-up.
- Even after you have received 7501, 3461, and DO, US Customs reserves the right to examine your shipment at any time and from any location. You can also adjust or amend duty/tax on previous shipments going back up to 7 years.
- The cost is $250 per day, per container, if your shipment is a full container or loose freight, and you need the container overnight at your site.
- If FDA related, In some cases, CBP will release the shipment, but there is still an FDA hold on it. You are welcome to pick up your shipment, but it cannot be sold or altered until the FDA hold is lifted.FDA will send notification when you can use or sell it or if the shipment must be returned to your vendor or destroyed at importer's expense (could cost $100's or $1,000's) and/or refusal documents could be issued by FDA. (FDA_Action_Notice_of_Destroyed_1.pdf) sample FDA Action Notice of Destroyed before shipment is released & (click here) sample FDA telling you to return to the FDA facility location (this could take FDA 4 weeks to notify you).This applies to all other US government agencies, such as ATF/TTB/DOT/EPA/USDA, etc. Furthermore, if there is involvement from ADD/CVD, FDA, USDA, or any other government agency, the shipment must be cleared with the local broker.
- To look up duty/tax, enter the HTC/HTS/Harmonized Tariff Code (click here) or call and email the US Customs Import Specialist Team (click here). is responsible for all classifications (HTC/HTS/Harmonized Tariff Code) of their own goods. Our HTS/HTC Classification on Customs Entries and ISF Filing is only informative and not binding.
- Click here to avoid our refund service fees. We are not a clearinghouse for all of your merchants' payments. We're solely here to clear your shipment through US Customs.
- BEFORE Clearing Customs (Entry Summary/CBP Form 7501 & Entry/Immediate Delivery/CBP Form 3461 & Pick Up Order and Bill of Lading (Delivery Order/DAD/DO). You may be given access to the File Notes Listing (ABI Report). All of our arrangement-related service fees, including our Trucking Arrangement invoice, Customs Clearing Invoice, ISF invoice, and all of our arrangement-related service fees, must be paid in advance. Before shipping the original check to (2018 Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite #200, Lomita, CA 90717) (info@usimportbond.com/Fax # (424) 702-3262), make it payable to US Import Bond and scan-email or fax a check copy as confirmation of payment. All cheques and funds must be cleared through our bank and accounting department. We will scan your scanned-check or faxed-in check into our bank account as soon as we receive it. If you want to pay via wire or Western Union, just let us know and we'll email you our payment information.
- There is no pro-rating, no refunds, and no cancellations on any of our services/payments. All premiums and fees have been paid in full. All of our services, as well as those of US government entities, must be paid for by the consignee.
- You should negotiate your shipping terms with your supplier/factory and shipping company before making any shipment arrangements (see here for a shipping glossary). Otherwise, you'll have to pay each of your vendors separately. For example, Foreign-Freight-Forwarder, Foreign-Inland-Trucking, Foreign-Warehouse, US-Freight-Forwarder, US-Warehouse, US-Trucking, US-Port, and so on.
- Our website/email is purely for informational purposes, and all of our services are by appointment only. All of our services come with no promises or warranties. Disclaimer/Terms are up to date (click here)
- If your LCL shipment is not picked up within 4 or 5 days of the time/date mentioned in your Arrival Notice, you will be charged additional storage fees, plus it will be sent to a US Customs Bonded GO (General Order Warehouse) and you/importer will be charged GO fees and other additional fees. Please contact your freight forwarder and warehouse for information on the Last Free Day (before daily storage charges) and Warehouse-processing-fees (see here) for an example.
- All full containers must be picked up from the port by the US-Customs-Bonded-Trucking-Company alone. You have 4 or 5 days to pick up your shipment(s) once they arrive at the port. The port will charge you additional storage/demurrage every day after 5 days. It might also be used to pay for GO (General Order Warehouse) and other charges.
- All in all, importers need to arrange trucking to pick up shipments on time to avoid additional charges.
Have more questions? Don't hesitate to contact us, get in touch is the key.
Hassle-Free Bond Application
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If you want a hassle-free experience, let U.S. Import Bond manage your bond applications. It is your duty as an importer to:
- Complete the Special Power of Attorney form to authorize us to post a bond in your name.
- Pay the duty, taxes, and fees
- Give us the pertinent information and documentation required to submit a bond.
- Verifying that all of the documents submitted are accurate to prevent penalties.
Let U.S Import Bond do the paperwork for you.
Bond Applications
Importers can apply any bond by calling us, emailing us (info@usimportbond.com) or by online forms listed below.