Chicago-based Echo aims to improve services for customers in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California and the upper mountain states. (Echgo Global Logistics)<\/p>\n
\n April 15, 2026 10:36 AM, EDT<\/p>\n
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\nEcho Global Logistics opened a new EchoChill facility in Sacramento, Calif., expanding its consolidated refrigerated LTL service.The facility is designed to improve service for customers in Northern California, the Pacific Northwest and upper mountain states.Echo said its consolidation model reduces handling by keeping freight on the same trailer throughout transit. <\/p>\n
Echo Global Logistics<\/a> expanded its consolidated refrigerated less-than-truckload service with a new facility in Sacramento, Calif.<\/a>, the company announced April 14.<\/p>\n EchoChill is supported by a nationwide network of temperature-controlled facilities. The new storage facility aims to improve services for customers in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California and the upper mountain states.\n \t \t\t<\/p>\n \u201cBy offering consolidated refrigerated transportation, Echo is able to provide a faster and more cost-effective solution with lower claims potential,\u201d said Dave Menzel, Echo\u2019s president and chief operating officer.<\/p>\n EchoChill combines smaller and chilled shipments into one full load with its consolidated freight strategy. By keeping freight on the same trailer throughout transit, the company noted, it minimizes handling and eliminates extra stops, container switches and lost time.\n \t\t<\/p>\n \u201cThis new facility creates additional flexibility for our West Coast clients and expands our national, temperature-controlled footprint,\u201d said Joe Amici, Echo\u2019s director of consolidation. \u201cBy leveraging consolidation, our clients can also benefit from a more eco-friendly shipping option.\u201d<\/p>\n Echo ranks No. 21<\/a> on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest logistics companies<\/a> in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago-based Echo aims to improve services for customers in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California and the upper mountain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[117279,117281,117282,117280,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-269252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-echo-global","tag-less-than-truckload","tag-ltl","tag-refrigerated","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}