Freight shipping in San Bernardino
Lifetime Logistics Services LLC runs freight shipping in San Bernardino and the cities beside it, Rialto, Redlands, Colton and Highland, at a pace of several loads a week, and it is where most of our long trips begin: power only loads to the Puget Sound, dry vans to northern Arizona, St. George and Boise on our own trucks, plus dry vans to Phoenix. We are a freight broker and trucking company in Covina, about 30 miles west on Interstate 10. Send the quote form or call (562) 566-8953.
From our dispatch records, January through September 2026
- From the Los Angeles area
- About 60 miles, same day
- How often we run it
- Several loads a week
- Trailer types
- Dry Van, Power Only
- Who hauls it
- A mix of our own trucks and partner carriers
- Direction
- Mostly outbound
San Bernardino as a freight market
San Bernardino sits where the Inland Empire's roads and railroads come together. Interstate 10 and Interstate 215 cross in the middle of the city, Interstate 15 climbs the Cajon Pass just to the west, and State Route 210 runs along the foothills. The BNSF intermodal yard on the west side of downtown is one of the busiest inland rail yards in the West, the Union Pacific's large classification yard is next door in Colton, and the former air base on the east side of the city is now an airport with an air cargo hub and a ring of distribution buildings.
The warehouses continue without a break into Rialto, west along the 210 and Interstate 10, and into Redlands, east along Interstate 10, both of which have distribution centers for national retailers and manufacturers. Colton, Highland and Loma Linda fill in the rest. For a truck, San Bernardino, Rialto and Redlands are one market, and we treat them that way.
What our records show here
This is the most important city page on our site for a simple reason: it is where our long trips start. Counting San Bernardino, Rialto and Redlands together, the area touched several loads a week between January and September 2026, and more than four loads in five were pickups. A mix of our own trucks and partner carriers hauled them, with our own drivers on close to half.
The outbound lanes are the ones on our state pages. Power only loads left Redlands for the Puget Sound roughly weekly, and less often for Portland, Spokane and western Montana. Dry vans left Rialto for northern Arizona and for St. George in southern Utah roughly weekly each, most of them on our own trucks. Dry vans and power only loads went to Phoenix, and dry vans to Boise, nearly all on our own trucks. Inbound, dry vans arrived from the Salinas Valley a couple of times a month. The city of San Bernardino itself was quieter than its two neighbors, with a few loads a month split between pickups and deliveries.
The roads out of San Bernardino
Every one of those trips leaves on one of three roads. Interstate 15 over the Cajon Pass goes north to Las Vegas, St. George, Salt Lake City, Boise and, by way of Interstate 84 and Interstate 90, Spokane and Montana. Interstate 10 goes east through the San Gorgonio Pass to Phoenix, Tucson and El Paso, and Interstate 40 branches off it at Barstow for northern Arizona. Interstate 5, reached across the basin, goes north to the Central Valley, the Bay Area and the Northwest. From here it is about 330 miles to either Phoenix or St. George, both next day deliveries; about 850 miles to Boise, two days; and about 1,170 miles to the Tacoma area, two to three days.
The Cajon Pass is the one to watch. It closes for snow a few times a winter, for brush fires in the fall, and for high wind at any time, and when it does, every northbound load waits.
From the Los Angeles area
San Bernardino is about 60 miles east of central Los Angeles and about 30 miles east of our office in Covina on Interstate 10, a same day move in either direction. The 10 through the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire is slow in both rush hours, and a pickup in Los Angeles County that loads by late morning delivers in San Bernardino the same afternoon.
Equipment we run from San Bernardino
Dry vans and power only, in roughly equal measure, which is unusual for us and reflects the shippers here: distribution centers that load our 53 foot vans, and shippers with their own trailer pools that need tractors to pull them north. The power only trucking page describes how a trailer move works. Flatbeds are rare in our records here, but we arrange them through partner carriers when a load needs one.
Because so many of these trips are our own trucks, a day or two of notice counts: it lets us plan the round trip so a truck that delivers in Boise or St. George has a load home, which is one reason we can cover these lanes at all.
Data center and heavy equipment freight
San Bernardino County has data center projects and the electrical equipment for them moves on flatbeds and lowboys from the ports and the Inland Empire manufacturers. Our data center freight section covers transformers, switchgear, generators and modules, including oversize permits for the Cajon Pass route north.
Lanes in our records for San Bernardino
From our dispatch records, January through September 2026. Only lanes with repeated loads are listed.
| Lane | How often | Trailer types | Who hauls it |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Bernardino to the Seattle and Tacoma area | About one load a week | Power Only, Dry Van | Mostly partner carriers, with our own trucks on some loads |
| San Bernardino to northern Arizona | About one load a week | Dry Van | Mostly our own trucks |
| San Bernardino to St. George and southern Utah | About one load a week | Dry Van | Mostly our own trucks |
| The Salinas Valley and Central Coast to San Bernardino | A few loads a month | Dry Van, Flatbed | Partner carriers |
| San Bernardino to the Phoenix area | A few loads a month | Dry Van, Power Only | A mix of our own trucks and partner carriers |
| San Bernardino to Boise and the Treasure Valley | A few loads a month | Dry Van, Power Only | Mostly our own trucks |
Questions shippers ask
- How often do you run freight in San Bernardino?
- Several loads a week in our records for January through September 2026, counting San Bernardino, Rialto and Redlands together, and more than four in five were pickups leaving on long trips.
- Where do loads from San Bernardino go?
- The Seattle and Tacoma area, northern Arizona, St. George, Phoenix and Boise most often, with occasional trips to Portland, Spokane, Salt Lake City and western Montana. Most of the Arizona, Utah and Idaho loads were on our own trucks.
- Do you run power only loads from the San Bernardino area?
- Yes. Most of our power only work starts here, pulling shipper owned trailers north on Interstate 5 and Interstate 15, roughly weekly to the Tacoma area.
- What happens when the Cajon Pass is closed?
- Northbound loads wait or, for Las Vegas and Utah, detour through the High Desert on State Route 58 and State Route 14 when those are open. We track each load and tell you where the truck is.
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