Sacramento Courier and Same-Day Delivery
Marvin Transportation runs same-day courier, medical transport and freight across Sacramento, Yolo, Placer and El Dorado counties. Capitol filings, hospital lab routes, state agency dock appointments and Highway 99 lanes, dispatched 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
How Sacramento actually runs
Sacramento is a deadline town before it is a freight town. Court filings close at four. State agency receiving docks take appointments and hold you to the window. Hospital labs cut off their courier pulls at fixed times and a specimen that misses the pull sits until the next one. Most of what we carry here is booked because somebody has a clock on it, not because a pallet needs to move.
The Causeway is the constraint everyone forgets. Interstate 80 between Davis and West Sacramento backs up on incident, not just on schedule, and there is no useful parallel route across the bypass. A run out to UC Davis or into Solano County that leaves at three in the afternoon is a different run than the same one at ten in the morning. Our Sacramento drivers stage west of the causeway in the afternoon rather than fighting it in both directions.
Business Route 80 through midtown and the grid streets around the Capitol are slow but predictable. The genuinely unpredictable piece is Highway 99 south toward Elk Grove and Stockton during harvest, when ag traffic and truck volume push travel times out by thirty to forty minutes with no warning. We build that into quoted windows instead of discovering it on the road.
McClellan Park and Metro Air Park generate most of our palletized work in the region. Both are set up for freight, both have real dock hours, and neither is close to the downtown core. A courier who only works the grid does not serve those well. We run them daily.
Service lines we run in Sacramento
Our Sacramento work splits roughly into three: medical and laboratory routes running to a schedule, deadline documents moving in ninety minutes or less, and palletized freight moving between the industrial parks and the rest of the state.
Where we run from Sacramento
Daily coverage from the Sacramento branch. Anything outside this list still moves, it just prices as a regional run rather than a metro run.
Downtown and MidtownWest SacramentoNatomasElk GroveRancho CordovaFolsomRosevilleRocklinCitrus HeightsCarmichaelDavisWoodlandVacavilleAuburnLincolnEl Dorado HillsGaltYuba CityMarysvillePlacerville
What we carry most in Sacramento
Frequently asked questions
How fast can you get a courier to a Sacramento pickup?
On STAT work inside the Sacramento core we quote ninety minutes from the call to the delivery, which includes getting a driver to the pickup. Outside the core, in Roseville, Folsom, Davis or Elk Grove, add drive time from the nearest available driver. Dispatch will tell you the real number on the phone rather than quoting a window we cannot hold.
Do you cover Sacramento overnight and on weekends?
Yes. Dispatch is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and Sacramento drivers run nights and weekends. Overnight and holiday work is priced differently, and dispatch will say so up front.
Can you handle lab specimens that need temperature control?
Yes. We run validated refrigerated units for cold chain work and carry $100,000 in reefer breakdown coverage on top of $1,000,000 cargo liability. Ambient, refrigerated and frozen are handled separately, so tell dispatch which one the sample needs.
Do you deliver into state agency receiving docks?
Regularly. Most agency docks in Sacramento work on appointment windows. Give us the appointment or let us book it, and the driver arrives inside the window with the paperwork the dock expects.
What insurance do you carry?
$1,000,000 auto liability, $1,000,000 general liability with a $2,000,000 aggregate, $1,000,000 workers compensation, $1,000,000 cargo liability and $100,000 refrigeration breakdown. Certificates go out same day on request.
Are your drivers TSA approved?
Our drivers hold TSA Security Threat Assessment clearance, which is what airline cargo handling requires of the driver. We are not an Indirect Air Carrier and we do not hold Known Shipper status, so if your shipment needs an IAC tender we will tell you rather than guess.
Can you run a recurring daily route in Sacramento?
Yes. Scheduled routes are a large share of our Sacramento volume. Recurring work is priced per route rather than per delivery, which is almost always cheaper than booking the same run on demand every day.
Do you move freight out of Sacramento to the Bay Area or Southern California?
Yes, on our own line haul rather than by handing it to a third party. Sacramento to the Bay Area is a same-day lane. Sacramento to Los Angeles moves overnight.
Get a Sacramento rate
Tell dispatch what is moving, from where, and by when. You will get a real number and a real window, not a callback.
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