3PL Center Review 2026

Overview

3PL Center is an Edison, New Jersey-headquartered third-party logistics company founded in 2011 by CEO Marcos Eddi, drawing on three generations of family logistics expertise. The company runs 12 US warehouses — eight in California near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, two in New Jersey near the Port of NY/NJ, plus single facilities in Miami, Florida and Suwanee, Georgia — feeding a proprietary warehouse management system with same-day 2 pm ship cutoffs on both coasts.

Two things separate 3PL Center from the bulk of the mid-market 3PL field. First, a fully published per-pound rate card. Pick and pack runs $1.99 for items under 10 lb and climbs to $2.65 under 30 lb; B2B and pick-and-stick come in at $1.99 under 40 lb with BOL fees included; the blended package runs $3.99; and the oversized tier starts at $8.00 for items under 100 lb and $12.00 for items up to 135 lb. In a category where most quotes still arrive through a sales rep, exposing the rate card is a credibility move.

Second, a dedicated oversized vertical built around the bicoastal port footprint. Boom lifts, slip sheet machines, forklift clamps, and customized racking for wall panels and outdoor furniture sit alongside carrier arrangements that waive or reduce oversized handling surcharges and exploit favorable dimensional-weight pricing. The categories named on the oversized page — e-bikes, BBQs, trampolines, outdoor furniture, paddleboards, lawn equipment — describe an ICP that most generalist 3PLs route to a specialist partner.

3PL Center publishes a handful of operational KPIs on its about page: 99.9% on-time delivery, 99.9% order accuracy, 2 million orders fulfilled annually, and a claim of 15+ warehouses (the locations page enumerates 12 distinct facilities — we anchor to the enumerated count). Like any vendor-reported figures these aren't independently audited, but they're the operational baseline 3PL Center invites prospects to evaluate against.

The 500 monthly order minimum and the lack of international fulfillment are the two boundaries that matter most for fit. 3PL Center isn't trying to serve sub-scale DTC, and brands with meaningful European or APAC volume will need a layered solution — but for the band it does target, the combination of transparent rates, oversized capability, and bicoastal port-to-DTC flow is a coherent story.

3PL Center Pricing

3PL Center publishes a four-package rate card on its program-packages page that is more granular than what most peers expose publicly. All rates are service-only — they cover the handling work but exclude packaging materials, storage, and inbound clearance.

Package 1 — Pick and Pack (DTC ecommerce)

The standard DTC tier is weight-banded:

• Under 10 lb: $1.99 per order
• Under 20 lb: $2.30 per order
• Under 30 lb: $2.65 per order

This is the package most ecommerce brands operate against. It includes appointment scheduling for inbound truckers, container drop and unloading, palletization, SKU verification, putaway and scanning into the proprietary WMS, picking, label printing and application, and 24–48 hour container-to-WMS turnaround.

Package 2 — Pick and Stick / B2B

For wholesale and retail-bound shipments, items under 40 lb run a flat $1.99 per order with the Bill of Lading fee included. Same operational stack as Package 1, plus pallet order setup. Useful for brands routing volume to retail partners where palletized B2B and DTC need to share an inventory pool but get billed differently.

Package 3 — Blended (P&P + P&S + B2B)

Brands running mixed DTC and wholesale on the same SKU base — common in the e-bike and furniture verticals — can run a blended package at $3.99 per order under 40 lb. This is the most flexible tier and includes BOL, pallet setup, and the full operational stack.

Package 4 — Oversized

The headline differentiator. Two weight bands:

• Under 100 lb (up to roughly 58×7×22 in.): $8.00 per order
• 80–135 lb (up to roughly 69×12×35 in.): $12.00 per order

This tier covers items that most generalist 3PLs either refuse outright or apply opaque oversized surcharges to. 3PL Center pairs the published rates with carrier arrangements that waive or reduce handling surcharges, high-DIM-factor pricing favorable to dimensionally-weighted items, and rate shopping between its exclusive carrier deals and the merchant's own carrier accounts. For e-bike, furniture, BBQ, and outdoor-equipment brands the combination tends to land closer to a like-for-like quote than peers can match.

The 500 monthly order minimum is the qualifier most merchants will hit first. Brands below that floor will struggle to justify the overhead; brands above it can usually model their cost-per-order with the rate card and a reasonable assumption about materials and storage before booking a sales call.

3PL Center Features

Bicoastal port-adjacent network

The 12-facility footprint is built around two port nodes: the California cluster sits next to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the New Jersey cluster sits next to the Port of NY/NJ. The Miami and Suwanee facilities round out Southeast coverage. Both port clusters offer same-day shipping with a 2 pm local cutoff and claim nationwide 2-day reach from either coast.

Brands importing containers can have inventory cleared dock-to-WMS in 24–48 hours and shipping out the same day on either coast, with the option to split inventory bicoastally for faster nationwide delivery without holding stock in 8–10 DCs.

Container drayage and receiving

Drayage and inbound container receiving are core services rather than handoffs. Containers can be dropped directly at port-adjacent docks, scheduled through the appointment scheduler, and cleared into the WMS within 24–48 hours. For brands importing heavy goods like furniture, e-bikes, or oversized DTC, the drayage line item often disappears into the fulfillment contract instead of running as a separate vendor relationship.

Oversized handling stack

The oversized vertical is the most operationally differentiated piece of the offering. Equipment includes:

• Boom lifts for maneuvering large, heavy, and bulky items
• Slip sheet machines for pallet handling with secure storage
• Forklift clamps for handling items like BBQs, bicycles, and large paper rolls
• Customized racking for awkward profiles like wall panels, furniture, and outdoor equipment

Pair that with carrier arrangements that waive or reduce oversized handling surcharges, high-DIM-factor pricing structures, and active rate shopping between 3PL Center's carrier deals and the merchant's own carrier accounts, and you get an oversized motion that's hard to match without engaging a dedicated specialist 3PL.

Proprietary WMS and integrations

3PL Center runs a proprietary warehouse management system rather than reselling a third-party WMS. The platform integrates natively with the major ecommerce sales channels — Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy — along with NetSuite, ShipStation, EDI, and QuickBooks. Marketing materials reference 100+ total system integrations once carriers, EDI partners, and WMS connectors are counted, though the public list of major-platform integrations is the 12 named above.

The proprietary WMS is a tradeoff: brands get appointment scheduling, real-time visibility, and tight inventory control without a third-party seat license, but they don't get the ecosystem maturity of a Shipped Suite or an Extensiv WMS. Brands that need API extensibility beyond what 3PL Center exposes should evaluate before committing.

Service breadth

Beyond the fulfillment core, 3PL Center offers:

• Drayage, LTL, FTL, and small parcel shipping
• Cross-docking and dedicated storage
• Kitting and assembly
• Subscription box fulfillment
• Returns processing with restock and inventory updates
• Retail compliance — custom labeling, price ticketing, retailer routing

The breadth is consistent with a mid-market 3PL trying to be the single partner for a brand from container in to consumer doorstep.

Verdict

3PL Center is one of the few mid-market 3PLs that can actually be evaluated honestly before a sales conversation — the rate card is published, the network is enumerated, and the operational claims are at least named publicly. That's rarer than it should be.

The right merchant is a brand shipping 500+ orders per month with at least some oversized SKU mix, ideally importing containers from Asia or Europe, and willing to anchor on either coast for nationwide delivery. E-bike, furniture, outdoor equipment, BBQ, and lifestyle hard-goods brands fit this profile most naturally — the published $8.00 oversized rate plus carrier surcharge waivers tends to undercut what generalist 3PLs quote for the same SKU.

The wrong merchant is an enterprise brand needing 40+ DC coverage or international fulfillment, a sub-scale operator who can't clear 500 orders per month, or a procurement team that needs deep G2 and Trustpilot validation before signing — 3PL Center's public review footprint is thin because its sales motion runs through Pipedrive rather than self-serve review sites.

If the rate card looks workable for your SKU profile and you're shipping at least 500 orders per month with some heavy or oversized inventory, 3PL Center deserves a call. The published rates plus the bicoastal port-to-DTC structure make for an unusually concrete starting point in a category that mostly sells in vagueness.