Service area
Flatbed & Step Deck Trucking in Winnie, TX
Highway 73 runs straight west from our Port Arthur yard into Winnie — 30 miles, about 35 minutes, no interstate required.
We run this lane more than almost any other
Winnie is not a town we could serve — it is a town we already serve, week in and week out. We have hauled well over two dozen loads in and out of yards right on I-10 at Winnie, most of it mat freight: crane mats and timber mats cycling between storage and jobsites across the Gulf Coast. Our drivers know the frontage roads, the yard entrances, and the loader operators by sight. When a call comes in for a Winnie pickup, dispatch is not pulling up a map. It is slotting the load into a lane our trucks already run.
The crossroads of Chambers County
Winnie sits where I-10 meets Highway 124, which makes it the natural staging point for freight headed in four directions: west toward the Ship Channel, east toward the Golden Triangle, south down 124 to High Island and the Bolivar Peninsula, and north into the rice-country back roads. Pipeline crews, pad builders, and coastal contractors all stage out of this junction, and their material — mats, pipe, aggregate, equipment — moves on trucks like ours. If your job stages at Winnie and delivers somewhere down the road, one carrier can cover both legs.
Pad, pipeline, and coastal work
The country around Winnie stays busy in ways that do not make headlines: well pads and tank pads going in off FM roads, pipeline spreads working the corridor, storm-protection and coastal projects pulling material toward the marsh. That work runs on matting and aggregate, and both are freight we handle constantly. End dumps bring the limestone and select fill; flatbeds bring the mats, pipe, and steel. Soft ground is normal here, so our drivers show up expecting unpaved access and stage-and-shuttle deliveries rather than being surprised by them.
Thirty-five minutes means real flexibility
Because Winnie is barely half an hour from the yard on a highway with no traffic to speak of, we can do things for Winnie customers that longer lanes do not allow: split a delivery across two days without repositioning cost, send a second truck when the first one finds more freight than expected, or cover a same-morning call before lunch. Short deadhead keeps the rate honest and the schedule flexible, and on a lane we run this often, an empty truck rarely stays empty long.
Common loads we haul in Winnie
Freight we move through Winnie every month:
- Crane mats and timber mats in and out of I-10 yards
- Bundled pipe for pipeline spreads along the corridor
- Limestone and select fill for pads off the FM roads
- Equipment moving to coastal jobs down Highway 124
- Structural steel and building material for commercial work at the interchange
- Aggregate for county road and drainage projects
Straight answers
Winnie freight questions
+How often do your trucks actually come through Winnie?
Most weeks, multiple times. Winnie is one of our highest-volume lanes — we have run 25-plus loads in and out of yards on I-10 there, and every Houston-bound truck passes through. Odds are good a truck is already nearby when you call (409) 540-9398.
+Can you handle mat orders staged out of Winnie?
That is exactly the work we do there most. Mats out of Winnie-area yards to jobsites across the region, and mats coming back when the job wraps. We keep load counts per truck so your inventory reconciles.
+Do you deliver south of Winnie toward High Island and Bolivar?
Yes. Highway 124 down to the coast is in our coverage, including soft-ground and beach-adjacent sites. Tell dispatch about access conditions and we will send the right trailer.
+What does the short distance from your yard mean for my rate?
Less deadhead than nearly any carrier can offer on this lane. Thirty miles of Highway 73 is cheap positioning, and the rate reflects it — no mobilization padding for a truck that is practically local.