FEC Rail Drayage

The Hialeah Intermodal Facility on East 21st Street is the southern terminus of the Florida East Coast Railway, the only rail connection that runs straight up Florida's east coast from Miami through Jacksonville. For shippers moving freight between South Florida and the Southeast — Atlanta, the Carolinas, the Northeast via interchange — the FEC ramp at Hialeah is the cheapest and often the fastest inland leg available out of the Miami market. The catch is that intermodal rail only works if your drayage carrier knows the lift schedule, owns the equipment, and is already on the ramp when your container is lifted off the well car. Ritehaul Logistics has been running drayage in the Hialeah corridor since 1998, and our yard is minutes from the FEC gate.

We pull and deliver containers off the FEC ramp at Hialeah with the same asset-based model we run at Port Miami and Port Everglades: company-owned day-cab tractors, a maintained chassis pool, and dispatchers who track lift times in real time. When a southbound train sets out and your container is on it, our dispatch is already booking a pickup window — not waiting for a third-party owner-operator to call back. Every FEC move includes live GPS tracking, digital proof-of-delivery, and a named account manager. We handle reefer containers with genset-equipped chassis, overweight loads on Florida-permitted lanes, and rush dispatch when last-free-day at the ramp is closing in. For exporters, we also stage and deliver northbound containers to the Hialeah ramp ahead of cut-off, with appointment confirmation back to the booking party.

Where Ritehaul makes Hialeah intermodal especially efficient is the way we tie it to our adjacent transloading and warehousing footprint. A container coming off an FEC train can be drayed to our Medley facility in 15–20 minutes, transloaded into 53-foot dry vans for South Florida distribution, or held briefly while a customer's DC takes the load. For exporters, freight can be consolidated into ocean containers at the same campus and drayed to either Port Miami, Port Everglades, or back onto an FEC northbound train — all on a single carrier, single account, single accountability chain. That eliminates the second drayage carrier most intermodal shippers are forced to coordinate with at the destination ramp.