Swift Dock started in 1992 with four trucks, one dispatcher, and a phone in a Long Beach garage. Three decades later we're a coast-to-coast 3PL — but the way we treat freight, and the way we treat people, hasn't changed.
Freight moves the world. Most of it moves badly. Lost paperwork, missed appointments, drivers no one can reach, invoices that don't match the quote — these are the daily indignities of supply chain management. We built Swift Dock to fix that, one shipment at a time.
Today, we're 312 people strong across 28 terminals — drivers, dispatchers, warehouse leads, customs brokers, and analysts — all working on a single principle: treat every load like it's the only one we have. That's how we've kept 87% of our customers for more than five years.
Work With UsEvery hire, every truck, every customer decision comes back to these.
We treat your freight like ours, your deadline like ours, and your team like ours. That's not marketing — it's how we lose less than 0.3% of loads to claims.
Quote that matches the invoice. ETA that matches the POD. EDI that maps the way you mapped it. Precision is the absence of explanations.
98.7% on-time over a rolling 12-month window. We measure ourselves the same way you measure us — and we share the dashboard.
A named dispatcher. A direct cell phone. No call trees, no "please hold." When you call at 3 a.m., you talk to someone who can solve it.
SmartWay-certified fleet, 32% biofuel blend at our hubs, and a goal of 50% intermodal share by 2030. Cleaner moves, same cost.
Our DockOS platform exists because a dispatcher built a spreadsheet a manager liked, and we paid an engineer to scale it. We hire problem-solvers.
From a four-truck drayage shop to a continental 3PL — here's how we got here.
Carl Whitman starts Swift Dock with four trucks and a chassis pool agreement at the Port of LA.
Opened a 120,000 sq ft cross-dock in Compton, CA. Added LTL service the following year.
Picked up the first 100,000-load year — and a Houston terminal that still anchors our Gulf network.
Launched our first in-house TMS — replacing seven spreadsheets and a fax line.
Acquired a Laredo broker and stood up our LDP/DDP program. Now 38% of revenue.
Crossed 100,000 employees-served and 1M lifetime shipments. Still independent. Still family-owned.
312 team members, 28 terminals, 14 warehouses, and 4,200 carrier partners — and growing.
Our leadership team has, between them, 180 years of moving freight. They've been on the dock — and they still take customer calls.
We bet we have. Send us the lane — we'll send you a quote within the hour.