Step-deck load out of the port of Long Beach

Looking for some help if anyone can provide it. I'm supposed to pick up a step-deck load that's being loaded out of the port of Long Beach on Friday (3/01). I'm deadheading there after a final stop on a previous load in Santa Rosa, California, which is an 8 hour drive or more depending on Oakland and Los Angeles traffic. I'll probably be close to out of hours when I get to Long Beach. As if this isn't bad enough, this is an oversized load and I've never pulled anything out of a port. Never been in a port. Never even been close to a port. Nobody I work with is any help whatsoever. Couldn't find much on port operations here so thought I'd ask you experts directly. Pier F is the only directions my "dispatcher" was able to give me.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, I don't work for a Russian outfit. Not 10-99. No white Volvo's here. Good company, just bad luck getting stuck in California.

 

I'm fully equipped for oversize loads, I just don't like to pull them. I also have a TWIC card. I have no idea if this truck is registered with CARB. I'll work on getting the BOL and I'm told this load has to pick up on Friday. The problem I have is that everyone I talk to at my company thinks I'll be in and out of there in a matter of minutes. I don't know how to get them to understand the complexities of this other than getting there and being turned away by staff at the port. It's a small 6 truck fleet. One owner drives (for like 23 years) but I'm not sure he's ever done anything in any ports and the other has never driven.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I guess I'll just do my best and hope for an okay outcome. Will the LB Port let you take a 10 there or am I looking at parking on some side street for that?

 

Well, I made it to the port, registered my truck with CARB, applied and paid for my day pass, waited in line to get in and muscled my way through paperwork issues. After all of that, the load was taken away from me because it required an RGN trailer per the customer. Wouldn't work with a step-deck. Not sure why nobody caught that important little detail until the very last second. Now I'm sitting at the TA in Ontario until Monday because they couldn't find me anything on Friday and I'll have to wait for a load on Monday.

I'm really starting to hate this industry...