Road Freight & Inland Transport
What is road freight?
Road freight covers all land-based trucking — from short local drayage (port to warehouse) to long domestic hauls and cross-border road moves. It's the backbone of door moves: whenever your shipment starts or ends somewhere other than a port or airport, road is the leg that connects it.
Holo Cargo coordinates inland transport as part of door-to-door and door-to-port / port-to-door shipments, or as a standalone move.
Road freight services
First and last mile
Pick-up from your supplier's door and delivery to your consignee — the "first mile" at origin and "last mile" at destination. Holo coordinates both, so you have a single operator accountable for the whole move.
Port drayage
Short-haul trucking between a container terminal and a warehouse, CFS, or distribution centre. Drayage is included in door moves and quoted separately for port-to-port shipments that need inland delivery.
Domestic long-haul
Full truckload (FTL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) moves within a country. Used when cargo is arriving at a gateway port and needs repositioning to an inland destination, or when exporting from an inland origin.
Cross-border road
Road moves that cross one or more land borders — common in regional trade corridors. Documentation and customs clearance at each crossing are coordinated alongside the transport.
Indicative transit times
| Move type | Typical transit |
|---|---|
| Regional / local drayage | 1–2 days |
| Long domestic haul | 3–7 days |
| Cross-border regional | 2–5 days |
Times are indicative and depend on distance, border crossing times, and customs clearance.
Road as part of a multimodal move
Most international shipments include a road leg. A door-to-door ocean shipment typically looks like:
- Road — factory to origin port or CFS
- Ocean — FCL or LCL vessel transit
- Road — destination port to consignee warehouse
Holo manages all three legs under one booking and one point of accountability. For complex multimodal moves involving rail, see multimodal freight.
Move types and Incoterms
The Incoterm you're using determines who arranges and pays for the inland legs. EXW (Ex Works) leaves the entire origin-side road move to the buyer; DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) puts the full door move on the seller. See Incoterms explained for the complete breakdown.