Transloading built for speed to market.
Prime Cincinnati rail access. Consolidate, cut costs, keep moving.
Our prime Cincinnati location gives you easy, quick access to pull containers for transloading. Our dedicated team specializes in the efficiencies that consolidate product, save cost, and speed freight to market — then get your empties back to the rail without incurring storage fees.
From the rail to the road, without the wait.
We pull your container fast, transfer and consolidate the freight, get it on its route to destination, and return the empty to the rail — no storage fees along the way.
Every transfer, handled with care.
Transloading means transferring goods from one mode of transport to another — and Taylor excels at managing that complex process across rail, road, and ocean freight.
Cross-docking
Swift transfer of goods from incoming to outgoing trucks — minimizing handling and storage time.
Rail ↔ truck
Efficient rail-to-truck and truck-to-rail transfer of bulk and packaged goods, leveraging our location near major rail lines and highways.
Intermodal containers
Handling of ISO tanks and 20′ and 40′ containers — smooth transitions between ocean, rail, and road transport.
Consolidation
Combining product efficiently to reduce shipments and handling — lower cost, faster turns.
Cut cost. Gain speed.
Our team of experts is here to simplify. We handle the complexity so your freight moves faster and your costs come down.
Fast rail access
A prime Cincinnati location means we pull containers quickly and get freight moving without delay.
Consolidation
We combine product efficiently, reducing handling and shipments so you pay for less freight movement.
Cost savings
Fast turns and no rail storage fees on empty returns keep your total landed cost down.
Speed to market
We get your freight on its route to destination fast, so it reaches shelves and customers sooner.
It all happens under one roof.
All of our transloading happens at 9287 Meridian Way in West Chester, Ohio 45069 — our flagship Cincinnati campus. One location for pulling containers, transloading, consolidation, and warehousing means less handoff, less handling, and faster turns for you.
Reworked, not just relayed.
Freight rarely arrives ready for its next stop. Our team reworks loads on-site — cross-docking, repacking, and repalletizing — so what leaves our dock is exactly how your customer needs it.
Whatever it’s on, we can move it.
Ocean, rail, flatbed, reefer, box truck, parcel — we transload across every mode and configuration. Here’s the range of work we handle.
Ocean & International
Bringing freight in from the port? We pull the ocean container and transload it straight onto whatever gets it moving:
- Dry van
- Flatbed
- Step deck
- Box truck
- Rail container
- Warehouse storage
- Parcel / D2C fulfillment
Trailer-to-Trailer
Moving freight directly from one trailer to another — no long storage in between:
- Dry van→Dry van(cross-dock)
- Dry van→Flatbed
- Flatbed→Dry van
- Reefer→Reefer
- Reefer→Dry van(non-temp-sensitive)
- Box truck→Dry van
Heavy & Oversized
Outsized and non-standard loads that need specialized equipment:
- Flat rack container→Flatbed
- Open-top container→Flatbed
- Breakbulk cargo→Flatbed
- Heavy equipment→RGN, lowboy & specialized trailers
Warehouse-Based Transloading
When freight needs to pause, stage, or split, our warehouse flexes to fit:
- Container→warehouse→outbound truck
- Cross-docksame-day transfer
- Short-term storage→reload
- Long-term storage→scheduled distribution
- Pool distribution
- Consolidationmany inbound → one outbound
- Deconsolidationone inbound → many outbound
Value-Added During Transload
The hands-on work that often sets a provider apart — we do it right on the dock:
- Palletizing & depalletizing
- Floor-loaded → palletized
- Slip-sheet conversions
- Stretch wrapping
- Rework & restacking
- Labeling & relabeling
- Product inspection
- Damage assessment
- Inventory counts
- Kitting
- Returns processing
See what we’ve been working on.
Every week we share real transload projects from our Cincinnati floor — from flatbeds to containers and everything in between. Here’s a look at the kind of work we do.
Container transload
Flatbed load-out
Consolidation
Rail-to-truck
Lean on us for the whole supply chain.
Taylor Distributing is part of the larger Taylor group of networks — including Taylor Logistics and Taylor Warehouse — so you can lean on us as a full supply chain partner. Need transloading, storage, or public warehousing in Cincinnati? We’ve got food-grade space at 9287 Meridian Way, our flagship public warehouse.
More than moving boxes.
Our flagship warehouse adds value-added services on top of storage — so one partner handles the whole job, start to finish.
How we move each industry forward.
Food & Beverage
Food-grade transloading, cross-docking, and temperature-aware handling move product from rail to retail while protecting freshness and traceability.
Automotive
We transload and cross-dock inbound components, repack and repalletize to line specs, and have even performed light parts assembly to feed automotive production lines just in time.
Industrial
Bulk and packaged goods transloaded between rail and truck, consolidated and repalletized for heavy, high-volume industrial supply chains.
Retail
Retail-compliant labeling, kitting, and repack keep shipments floor-ready and on-time for retailer routing and compliance requirements.
Medical
Careful handling and clean, controlled transloading for medical and healthcare products where accuracy and chain-of-custody matter.
Don’t see your industry? We’ve likely handled it. In business since 1850, we’ve moved just about everything — so reach out and let’s talk about your freight.
Request transloading services.
Tell us what’s moving and our team of experts will build a fast, cost-saving plan — usually back to you the same business day.
- Prime Cincinnati rail access
- No rail storage fees on empty returns
- 420,000 sq ft of warehousing behind it
Transloading, answered.
What shippers ask most about transloading with Taylor. Want to talk? Call us.
Let’s simplify your freight.
Our team of experts is here to make transloading, consolidation, and warehousing easy — one Cincinnati partner for the whole supply chain. Get a rate today.