Frozen Food Cross-DockingExports and Imports are faced with challenges on several fronts. The traditional shipping plan for these companies involves local transportation (dray) of a sea container from the Chicago area to their food processing plants, often in different states (Nebraska, Wisconsin etc.). This presents a challenge as these companies incur ineffective dray expenses. Secondly, at their facilities, these companies are faced with the additional challenge of being limited with how much of their product they can load into a sea container. DOT, also, has load weight limitations on Interstate roads (typically around 38,000 lbs. can be legally trucked). Our client, as is the case with many, on occasions order more material than they have the warehouse capacity to manage. This client ramped up orders in anticipation of more than $200 billion in planned tariffs levied by the federal government on certain products and commodities from China.