Services

Whether you're looking to replace your current transportation company or simply curious about our services, we invite you to learn why so many companies rely on Explorer for all of their transportation needs.

We offer:

LTL

Our LTL shipments are always routed in the most direct fashion available, assuring minimal handling of your freight.

Refrigerated LTL Services

Explorer's refrigerated less than truckload (LTL) division provides regularly scheduled service from our consolidation centers. In addition, we can provide point-to-point deliveries anywhere in the country on a non-scheduled basis. We specialize in national distribution long hauls of refrigerated, frozen, and temperature protected products, but can accommodate regional deliveries. Our goal: to deliver domestic refrigerated LTL loads within 5 business days.

Our expertise in temperature-controlled shipping began in 1999, when we began buying and selling fresh produce. Today, we have one of the largest networks of refrigerated trucks, including access to 155,500 refrigerated trailers in North America.

Intermodal

Our multimodal options only begin with truck services. Explorer is a top ten intermodal marketing company in the Canada and third party providers of global intermodal services.

Backed by our extensive truck network, intermodal service is a vital segment of Explorer's transportation business. Shippers benefit from intermodal's tremendous flexibility, economic advantage, and equipment availability. Explorer will develop a unique solution for your organization to help lower overall landed costs in your supply chain. Because we operate the networks we create, you receive superior execution and the best customer service in the industry.

Every day, we leverage our contracts and relationships with all the major North American railroads to serve shippers' requirements. As customers ship beyond their traditional borders, Explorer will have the intermodal infrastructure in place to satisfy their needs.

Dimensional Services

Explorer has the expertise to expedite the movement of oversized and overweight shipments with creativity, precision and attention to detail. Explorer and its professional subcontractors can attend to the essential details, from rate and service negotiation to in-transit clearances, permits, and safety inspections, loading/unloading, rigging, and transload. We can attend to all aspects of the move, and provide expediting services to ensure that freight arrives at the destination on time, and cost-effectively.

Refrigerated Services

Explorer has the expertise to transport temperature-protected freight via intermodal refrigerated rail containers and trailers.

Prior to every shipment, the units are pretripped by authorized technicians, so they will be in top operating status for each and every load. Because of our flexibility, we can use the 40', 48', or 53' equipment that best meets customer requirements.

Recognizing the sensitivity associated with temperature-protected freight, we offer various competitive transit times to get your freight to its destination on your desired timetable. The service chosen will determine the rate, since we have varying transit times with differentiated prices. Also, we utilize a select group of draymen to transport the equipment from origin to rail, and rail to destination, with a strong focus on communication. We realize the customer needs to know the location of their freight to ensure proper inventory planning.

Air Cargo

As a full-service air freight forwarder, Explorer offers air cargo service, for both domestic and international freight. Explorer coordinates the air leg of movements through air carriers under contract, and the ground segment through a network of quality motor carriers. Charter air service is available for both domestic and international freight, if required. Explorer manages all details of air freight service, including documentation.

Intercontinental Services

Ocean
Explorer provides comprehensive import and export services. As an international freight forwarder and non-vessel operation common carrier with full tariff authority worldwide, Explorer handles full containerload, LCL, or breakbulk movements anywhere in the world. Explorer consolidates shipments, determines routing, selects ocean carriers, contracts for ocean shipments, provides for local pick-up and delivery of shipments, and arranges for customs clearance. Complete documentation services are available. We also offer tailored warehousing, distribution, and assembly services domestically and abroad.

Air
As a full-service air freight forwarder, Explorer offers air cargo service, door to door, for both domestic and international freight. Explorer coordinates the air leg of movements through air carriers under contract, and the ground segment through a network of quality motor carriers. Charter air service is available for both domestic and international freight, if required. Explorer manages all details of air freight service, including documentation.

Expedited

Explorer provides guaranteed expedited services using core carriers with more than 10,000 pieces of equipment, and is the largest capacity provider in the expedited market. Its centralized customer service center is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Explorer provides instant competitive rate quotes and availability of equipment.

Explorer also services the "LTL" expedited marketplace using a group of expeditors with equipment ranging from cargo vans to twenty-four foot straight trucks.

Special Handling Services

Not all freight fits into neat categories. Some shipments don't even fit into neat packages. Odd-sized, unusual, fragile, service-intensive, and over-dimensional moves require extraordinary care and service. Explorer is skilled at handling complex freight and warehousing challenges, and we provide the highest level of service to get odd jobs done the right way. Our Special Handling Services division specializes exclusively in non-traditional freight, including:

Regional Short Haul

As distribution patterns are changing, many shippers today tend to stage their products closer to the final distribution point to accommodate their customers' just-in-time needs. Explorer has responded by developing regional short haul expertise. Explorer pools regional freight, combining one-way short haul trips from two or more shippers to balance equipment. In addition, Explorer coordinates multiple stops in a loop to keep trucks in a carrier's desired lanes. The result: Shippers gain better access to short haul equipment at highly competitive rates.

Temperature Controlled

As a company, Explorer got its start sourcing produce in 1999. Since then, we've become experts at transporting perishable products - the ultimate in just-in-time freight. Currently, Explorer has access to many refrigerated trailers, as well as rail and ocean containers, to transport temperature-protected, refrigerated, and frozen products around the world.

Flatbed

Explorer has developed competency in the flatbed business and is aggressively capturing marketshare. We manage all types of flatbed freight, from general commodities to dimensional permitted. Our operating units work in unison to maximize flatbed capacity.

Warehousing

Docking