ProTake Logistics LLC

Interstate box truck freight · Sacramento, California

What we’re building

The company

Freight too big for a van and too small for a 53-footer.

ProTake Logistics is being established in Sacramento, California, to run interstate box truck freight — palletized LTL and partial loads on the I-5 and I-80 corridors.

That gap is a real one. A cargo van cannot take a pallet count in double figures. A 53-foot trailer priced for a full load is the wrong tool for eight pallets, and often cannot get into the receiving site at all. A 26-foot box sits squarely between the two, and that is the whole idea.

Equipment

26 feet, drawn to scale.

Real interior dimensions for a 26-foot box, not rounded marketing figures.

Side elevation of a 26-foot box truck 26 foot cargo box on a cab-over chassis, 103 inch interior height, 102 inch interior width. Cab faces right. PT 26 FT · 312 IN 103 IN
Interior length
26 ft
Interior width
102 in
Interior height
103 in
Cube
1,700 ft³
Max payload
10,000 lb
Standard pallets
12–14

Twelve 48 × 40 GMA pallets straight-loaded, two across. Turning them ninety degrees opens a seventh row and gets you to fourteen.

Freight

What a 26-foot box is right for.

Palletized LTL & partials

Standard 48 × 40 pallets, floor loaded and strapped. The bread and butter of a box truck.

12 straight · 14 pinwheeled · 10,000 lb

Appointment & retail delivery

Scheduled dock windows for retail and distribution centres, with a signed delivery receipt on arrival.

Dock or liftgate required

Liftgate & no-dock sites

Residential, construction and small-business delivery where there is no dock and no forklift waiting.

2,500 lb liftgate capacity

Single-driver regional runs

A live 11-hour duty clock reaches Los Angeles or Portland from Sacramento inside one legal day.

Solo driver · 11-hour HOS limit

What we won’t haul.

A carrier who says yes to everything is a carrier who is about to waste your afternoon. These are the limits, stated up front.

No Full 53-foot volume. Over fourteen pallets or 10,000 lb needs a different truck, and we will say so on the call.
No Refrigerated or temperature-controlled freight. A dry box is a dry box.
No Oversize, overweight or open-deck. Nothing needing a flatbed, a permit or a pilot car.
No Hazmat. No placarded freight.
Never Re-brokered. ProTake is being built as an asset carrier, not a broker. The truck that quotes your load is the truck that hauls it.

Geography

Why Sacramento.

I-5 and I-80 cross here and the Port of Oakland is ninety minutes west. These are the corridors ProTake is being built around.

Lane map showing routes radiating from Sacramento, California 100 MI 300 MI SACRAMENTO OAKLAND RENO FRESNO LOS ANGELES PORTLAND LAS VEGAS SALT LAKE CITY
Bay Area / Port of Oakland85 mi1.5 hrI-80 W
Reno, NV130 mi2 hrI-80 E
Fresno / Central Valley170 mi2.5 hrCA-99 S
Los Angeles385 mi6 hrI-5 S
Las Vegas, NV560 mi8.5 hrI-80 / US-95
Portland, OR580 mi9 hrI-5 N
Salt Lake City, UT650 mi10 hrI-80 E
Seattle, WA750 mi12 hrI-5 N

Where things stand

Not hauling yet, and not pretending to.

Equipment, operating authority and insurance are being put in place before any freight moves. All three have to be done properly, and none of them are things to claim early.

Nothing is being booked until they are. When that changes, the numbers go on this page where a broker can check them.

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Questions, or to hear when we launch.