Austin, Texas-based Outpost, a national network of truck terminals, announced this week that it has added five new United States-based properties—in Newark, N.J., Miami, and three California cities, Stockton, Livermore, and Torrance.
The company said that this represents Outpost’s entry into the most critical freight corridor in the Northeast, while also expanding its operations and presence in South Florida and California’s high-volume freight markets. And Outpost also said that, as part of this expansion, it has made a strategic investment into EV Realty, a developer, owner, and operator of commercial fleet charging hubs, with three California-based EV properties being added to Outpost’s network—which it said will generate immediate utility for fleets as the sites undergo permitting for near-term electrification.
When asked what led to Outpost adding these five new properties, Outpost CEO Trent Cameron told LM it is part of the company’s $1 billion investment to expand in major freight markets anchored by ports, distribution hubs, and large population centers.
“Newark is our first terminal in the Northeast, 13 miles from the port,” he said. “Miami is located just off the runways of MIA. And the three California sites extend our coverage from the Central Valley to the ports of LA and Long Beach. Every new terminal we add makes our network more valuable to each of our customers. For example, a shipper with a private fleet or a carrier using our existing Savannah facility benefits when we open in Miami, because now their drivers have terminal capacity at both ends of a lane.”
As Outpost expands its network, Cameron said it is addressing a structural gap in the supply chain. To that end, he noted that trucking moves more than 70% of U.S. freight tonnage, but it’s the only transport mode without shared infrastructure.
“While air cargo has airports, maritime has ports, and intermodal has railyards, trucking has disconnected lots that were never designed to work as a network,” he said. “Each of our five new properties lets fleets focus on moving freight rather than managing real estate.
In terms of customer benefits, Cameron said that at each new location, Outpost’s customers can plug into working terminal infrastructure instead of building it themselves, adding that the site, operations, gate automation, and security come as one package, and the experience is consistent across every Outpost facility.
“For shippers, the benefit is reliability,” he said. “Outpost provides their private fleets and carriers with staging capacity near the DC to relay empties and loaded trailers, keep the dock doors clear, and minimize detention. For carriers, the value is speed and capital efficiency. When they win a new contract in a market where they don’t have a facility, they can stand up a new regional satellite terminal in weeks instead of months. And instead of locking capital into low-yield real estate, they can redeploy that into fleet expansion.”
Regarding Outpost’s investment into EV Realty, he said in the immediate term, EV Realty’s properties add new nodes to Outpost’s network for fleets operating in the Central Valley and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
“Longer-term, we see freight and energy infrastructure converging,” he explained. “Electric trucks will need a reliable charging network, and carriers will face the same question with charging that they face today with terminals: lock in capital at every site they operate or access it as a service wherever their business takes them?”
