Service area · King County
Freight delivery and airport cargo recovery in Mercer Island.
About 15 miles northeast of SEA, roughly 20-30 minutes via I-5 to I-90. Access is exclusively by I-90: the island has no other road connection. The two island exits are the only way on and off, and a closure or backup on I-90 has no workaround. It sits directly between Seattle and Bellevue, making it a natural inline stop on cross-lake runs.
Recovery into Mercer Island
Recovering your air freight from SEA to Mercer Island.
We collect import freight at the airline and handler warehouses at Seattle-Tacoma International and run it out to Mercer Island. You confirm the shipment is released and good to go; that is the job of the person who hires us. Once you have, we commit the truck.
Send dispatch the Delivery Order, the master and house bill numbers, the piece count and weight, the warehouse location, and the consignee with their receiving hours. With those in hand we can tell you honestly whether the shipment makes today’s cycle or tomorrow morning’s.
Mercer Island receiving realities.
Mercer Island is almost entirely single-family residential with a small commercial core in Town Center at the north end: roughly 60,000 square feet of office space serving about 25,000 residents. There is no industrial zoning and no warehouse district; the delivery profile is professional services, medical and dental practices, financial and real estate offices, grocery and specialty retail, plus a meaningful volume of residential and inside-delivery work given the island's household incomes. Businesses that operate here are typically small offices that ship documents, samples, and equipment rather than pallets.
Districts and corridors we run to
- Mercer Island Town Center
- I-90 and the Lacey V. Murrow / Homer Hadley floating bridges
- Mercer Island light rail station (2 Line)
- North Mercer Way commercial district
- Aubrey Davis Park corridor
- Island Crest Way
Who we deliver to in Mercer Island.
Freight forwarders & brokers
Recovery from SEA, delivered to your dock or your consignee
Manufacturers & suppliers
Palletized freight, parts runs, and machine-down urgency
Medical, dental & lab
Time-sensitive consignments with appointment windows
Retail, hospitality & trades
Liftgate, inside delivery, and restricted receiving hours
Local questions
Mercer Island freight questions.
How quickly can you get freight from SEA to Mercer Island?
About 15 miles northeast of SEA, roughly 20-30 minutes via I-5 to I-90. Access is exclusively by I-90: the island has no other road connection. The two island exits are the only way on and off, and a closure or backup on I-90 has no workaround. It sits directly between Seattle and Bellevue, making it a natural inline stop on cross-lake runs. In practice the drive is rarely the constraint. Release status at the warehouse and the receiving hours at the far end decide the day far more often than traffic does. Give dispatch the arrival notice time and the consignee's receiving window and you will get a straight answer about whether it lands today or tomorrow morning.
Dispatch · 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moving freight in Mercer Island?
Tell us what is moving and where it has to be. Dispatch comes straight back to you.