Dock to dock delivery Surrey shippers can book by the hour. One truck, one crew, and your skids ride the same deck from your loading dock to the receiver’s, with no third building in the middle. Local Movers Ltd. 6 years in Surrey, 5.0 stars across 395 Google reviews, and the same crew behind delivery work for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung.
Send the two dock addresses and the receiving window. We’ll come back with the crew, the truck and the hourly breakdown.
Surrey is a warehouse city before it’s anything else. The City counts 2,534 hectares of industrial land, roughly 365 of them still vacant, spread across eight business parks: Campbell Heights, South Westminster and Bridgeview, Port Kells, Newton, Cloverdale, Rosemary Heights, the Highway 99 corridor and the Douglas area. Campbell Heights alone runs 768.9 hectares and put out about 30 percent of all new industrial space built in Metro Vancouver between 2018 and 2022. That’s a lot of bays, and freight moves between them daily.
Most of the calls we get for dock to dock work sound the same. A distributor repositioning stock between two units. A retailer pushing pallets to a receiver by Thursday. A business that just leased a second bay and wants half its inventory in it. None of that needs a 3PL contract. It needs a truck, a crew, and a driver who can back into a bay in Port Kells without holding up the yard.
That’s the work this page covers. Loaded at your dock, unloaded at theirs, one deck the whole way.
A dock to dock run lives or dies at the receiving end, so that’s where we start. Most Surrey warehouses take freight on fixed hours against a booked dock slot. Miss the window and your load either sits on the truck burning billed time or gets turned away. Before we dispatch we confirm three things: the receiver’s hours, the appointment, and what’s physically at the far end. A dock-height bay with a leveler is one job. A grade-level door with a curb in front of it is another. Skids get shrink-wrapped and banded before the doors close, we run the piece count at both ends, and somebody signs the bill of lading so you and your consignee hold the same numbers.
Geography does the rest of the planning. Port Kells sits in the northeast corner of Guildford on the south bank of the Fraser, with Highway 1 as the line between the industrial north and the quieter south. Highway 15 runs 176 Street about 21 km through west Port Kells to Highway 1 Exit 53, feeding the Pacific Highway commercial crossing that takes more than 3,000 trucks a day because the Peace Arch won’t take them. The 26-acre Port Kells Industrial Park holds Costco’s Western Canadian distribution centre as its largest building. A lot of our weeks start with warehouse pickups in Port Kells. Dock to dock is one branch of our wider moving and storage services in Surrey, so the same trucks and crews handle it.
The river side of the city has its own rhythm. Bridgeview stretches from the Fraser south to King George Boulevard between the Pattullo and the Port Mann, low-lying land diked in the 1970s and industrial ever since. Pacific Link is an 83-acre industrial development on the South Fraser Perimeter Road at Scott Road, and DP World Fraser Surrey, the terminal most people still call Fraser Surrey Docks, works bulk, breakbulk and containers right there on the water. In July 2026 DP World wrapped a roughly $9 million job pulling out an in-river training wall built in 1967, opening up to 2 million more tonnes of export capacity a year. More cargo on the river means more pallets moving between the bays behind it, which is why so many of our runs touch the Bridgeview industrial flats.
This is the core run. We load at your dock, drive direct, and unload at the receiver’s. Your freight doesn’t change trucks, doesn’t get re-stacked in a third building, and doesn’t sit overnight in somebody else’s yard. Loading docks are busy, crowded places, and every extra touch is a fresh chance to crack a pallet or lose a piece off the count. One crew loads it, the same crew unloads it, one bill of lading covers the move.
Docks only work when the truck and the bay agree. Before the run we ask for the bay height, whether the leveler works, and how tight the approach is, because a driver jockeying four times in a shared yard is burning your hours. When both ends are dock-height, a wrapped skid can roll straight across the leveler instead of getting broken down by hand, and that saves billed time on every skid. If your building shares a dock, tell us at booking so we can set the slot with your building manager instead of idling behind another carrier at 8 a.m.
Plenty of Surrey receivers have no dock at all. Storefronts, strata units, grade-level roll-up doors, job trailers on a site. We still take the run. Flag it as a no-dock delivery when you book, tell us the honest weight of the heaviest piece, and we’ll send the gear to bring the load to ground safely and move it inside. Surface and slope change the plan too. Gravel, a sloped lot, a curb between the truck and the door, or a fire lane we can’t block. Say it at booking and it’s a non-event.
Most of what we haul dock to dock is standard palletized freight. Shrink-wrapped skids, banded cartons, the odd crate. Oversized pieces travel the same way. Machinery bolted to a skid, racking pulled down from a teardown, long crates that won’t sit square on a 48 by 40 pallet. Give us dimensions and real weights when you book and we’ll plan the load order so the heavy pieces ride low and nothing walks on the Highway 1 merge. Size isn’t the gate. One skid to a full truckload, we’ll run it.
Your freight never gets handed to a stranger between docks. We don’t broker loads out, and we don’t put your pallets on a carrier we’ve never met. The crew that counts your skids onto the truck counts them off at the other end, which is why our damage conversations stay short.
We build the run around your receiver’s appointment, not around our route. If the consignee takes freight from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and nothing after, that’s the window we dispatch to. If the slot moves, tell us and we move with it. Receiving hours are the single thing most likely to blow up a dock to dock run, so we plan the day around them.
We’ve done real delivery work for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung. Those are brands that count product, track damage and don’t hand out second chances. The crews on those runs are the crews on yours: wrap it, count it, load it in order, sign it off.
We’ve been running Surrey for 6 years out of 8567 164 St, and we hold 5.0 stars across 395 Google reviews. That’s six years of learning which yards are tight, which buildings share a dock, and how long a run from the river flats out to a Cloverdale bay takes at 3 p.m. on a Friday. We’re a moving company with our own trucks and crews running direct freight. Not a 3PL, not a broker, not a cross-dock facility.
Pickup dock, receiving dock, skid count and the receiving window. One call and we know what the run takes.
Crew size, truck and the hourly breakdown up front, including the minimum and the 30-minute increments, before anything gets committed.
Skids get shrink-wrapped and banded, we run the piece count at your dock, and your freight rides one deck the whole way.
We count the pieces onto the receiving dock, get the bill of lading signed, and bill the hours the crew and truck actually worked.
Here’s the whole pricing story. We bill on time. You pay for the hours the crew and truck actually work, tracked in 30-minute increments once the minimum is met, and we break the number down for you before the truck rolls. The hourly rate covers the truck, the crew on it, and the gear on board: blankets, straps, dollies, load bars.
Most freight outfits stop at “contact us for a quote”. We’d rather hand you the number and the math up front. If the receiver’s appointment slips and the truck waits, that shows on the invoice as waiting time, not as a mystery line item. If the run goes faster than we quoted, you pay for the shorter run.
We don’t quote per pallet, per skid or per kilometre. Those brackets look tidy on a website and fall apart the moment a yard queues or a door turns out to be at grade.
Two docks, one truck, one crew. Call (778) 242-2877 or send us the skid count.
Below are nine tips from six years of Surrey dock to dock work. They’re the things that save shippers real money.
The receiver’s slot is the fixed point. Lock that, then book the truck around it, because a truck can move an hour and a warehouse dock usually can’t.
A phone call gets you what somebody remembers. An email gets you what the receiving office enforces, including the cutoff and whether they stop taking freight over lunch.
Loose freight gets wrapped on your clock. Shrink-wrap the load, band anything tall, and the crew starts loading the minute the doors open.
Receiving staff read whichever side faces the aisle. Labels on two faces kill the “which one is ours” delay.
A signed count at pickup and another at delivery settles any question later. If a piece is short, you find out at the dock, not three weeks into a claim.
This one question changes the whole plan. Tell us before dispatch and we send the right gear the first time.
Yards queue worst first thing, and the 176 Street truck route into Port Kells feeds a border crossing that takes over 3,000 trucks a day. A 10 a.m. appointment often unloads faster than an 8 a.m. one.
Two minutes of phone photos showing wrap, banding and skid count is the cheapest insurance in freight.
Guessing at a machine’s weight is how one run becomes two. Check the plate or the spec sheet and give us the number when you book.
Real five-star reviews from our Surrey customers, straight from Google.
Excellent experience with this moving company! The entire move was smooth, efficient, and stress-free. A special thanks to Abhimaan, the manager, for being so professional, organized, and responsive throughout the process. Huge thanks as well to Jass for his hard work and careful handling of all my belongings. The team was friendly, punctual, and treated everything with great care. I highly recommend this company to anyone looking for reliable and professional movers!
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Excellent experience with Local Movers Ltd (July 6th, 2026). The team was professional, efficient, and very careful with my items. Highly recommend!
The guys were super nice and took amazing care to wrap all our furniture and not damage any walls. Arrived on time and took care of things efficiently. Would 100% recommend.
Cross-docking moves freight between docks inside one facility, so it comes off a truck, sits on a floor, and goes back out on a different truck. Dock to dock is a direct run between two separate buildings with nothing in the middle. We do the second one. Your pallets stay on our deck the whole way, which is fewer touches and fewer places for a piece to go missing.
Usually you do, because the receiver knows you and their system books against your PO. Send us the window, the site contact and the dock number and we dispatch to it. If you’d rather we call the receiving office to confirm hours and the slot, we’ll do that too. Either way, nobody rolls until the window is confirmed.
Tell us at booking and it’s fine. Plenty of receivers are grade-level roll-up doors, storefronts or strata units with no dock. We plan for a ground-level unload and send the gear to get the freight down safely. What we need from you is the heaviest single piece weight and a note on the surface, since gravel, a slope or a curb changes how we stage it.
On time. You pay for the hours the truck and crew actually work, tracked in 30-minute increments after the minimum, and we break the number down before the truck rolls. The hourly rate includes the truck, the crew and the gear on board. There are no per-pallet or per-kilometre brackets.
That depends on the truck we send and the footprint of your skids, so we confirm the capacity when you book. Give us the pallet count, dimensions and weights and we’ll tell you whether it’s one run or two before you commit. Single-skid runs are fine, and so is a full truckload.
Yes. We count pieces at pickup, count them again at the receiving dock, and get the sign-off on the BOL so both ends hold matching paperwork. Bring your own BOL if your system generates one. If you don’t have one, tell us and the count and sign-off still get documented.
Often, yes, if the receiver can take the freight today. Call (778) 242-2877 with both addresses and the receiving window and we’ll tell you straight away whether we can hit it. Same-day usually comes down to their dock schedule, not ours.
Send us the pickup dock, the receiving dock, the skid count and the window. We’ll come back with a crew size, a truck and an hourly breakdown before anything gets committed. One pallet across Port Kells or a full deck out to Cloverdale, same promise: one truck, one crew, your freight handled twice, once on and once off.
Your freight leaves one dock and arrives at the other on the same deck, counted, signed for, and billed on the hours we actually worked.
Local Movers Ltd · 8567 164 St, Surrey, BC V4N 3K4 · (778) 242-2877 · Open Mon-Sun
