3PL and fulfillment near Birmingham, AL: 587 miles from Warp's Chicago center
Birmingham, AL is about 587 miles from Warp's Chicago fulfillment center in Bensenville: 44 dock doors, and inbound and outbound pallets on Warp LTL and truckload, audited 24% lower per pallet across 86 enterprise LTL migrations. Birmingham ships from Bensenville on FedEx, UPS and USPS ground and express, with zone skipping when volume supports it, and pallets ride Warp LTL and truckload. Warp LTL from Chicago to Birmingham is from $282 per pallet with 3 day transit, and Birmingham to Chicago from $351 per pallet, rates as of September 2026. Inventory for a cluster of Birmingham customers can stage at a Warp partner dock near Birmingham and replenish from Bensenville on Warp LTL.
The four centers, with Birmingham plotted
- 500 mi Next day, Warp LTL
- 150 mi Same day freight, our cargo vans
- 30 mi Same day delivery, orders to the door
- Metros in the reach table below, plotted from their coordinates
- 21 metros with their own page, colored by band; larger dots are Warp cross docks. Click one.
Birmingham is plotted from its own coordinates; type a ZIP above to draw the leg.
Shippers already moving freight on the Warp network your inventory would sit inside
What reaches Birmingham
Every line below follows from one number: Birmingham is 587 miles from Bensenville. The bands are the map's rings, 30 miles for same day delivery, 150 for same day freight on Warp vans and box trucks, 500 for next day on Warp LTL.
Orders to the door
Parcel on FedEx, UPS and USPS ground and express from Bensenville, with zone skipping to the injection point when volume supports it.
Freight and big and bulky
On Warp LTL and truckload from Bensenville, at the per pallet rate you were quoted.
Pallets for replenishment
Warp LTL and truckload from Bensenville; Birmingham is beyond the 500 mile next day ring, so transit is what the lane table below says.
The lane, priced: Chicago and Birmingham
Warp's own LTL rate between the Chicago center and Birmingham, per pallet, from the rate table the lane pages carry (snapshot September 2026). Inbound is your inventory arriving; outbound is replenishment and B2B pallets leaving for Birmingham customers. The rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced.
| Leg | Warp LTL rate | Transit | Carriers on the lane | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inbound Birmingham to Bensenville | from $351 per pallet | 2 day transit | 22+ carriers | Lane page |
| Outbound Bensenville to Birmingham | from $282 per pallet | 3 day transit | 15+ carriers | Lane page |
Rebills on the lane
Per pallet pricing: no reclassification, no dim weight rebill, no accessorial you find out about on the invoice.
Lower per pallet, audited
Across 86 enterprise LTL migrations onto the Warp network; the method is the same on every freight page on this site.
On time on the network
Every pallet scanned, timestamped and photographed at receipt, the same trail the 800K+ completed shipments ran.
Staging inventory near Birmingham
Birmingham is 587 miles from Bensenville: too far for the center's own vans, close enough that a partner dock near Birmingham, replenished from Bensenville on Warp LTL (from $282 per pallet, 3 day transit), turns a parcel promise into a next day one for a cluster of Birmingham customers. Which of the 60 partner docks is mapped from your order history on the call.
- 587 mi
Bensenville holds the inventory
Pallet day storage with no minimum stay at the Chicago center; every pallet scanned, timestamped and photographed at receipt.
- $282 / pallet
Replenishment rides Warp LTL to Birmingham
3 day transit on the Chicago to Birmingham lane, the rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced.
- Partner dock
Orders leave from Birmingham
From a partner dock near Birmingham: next day to Birmingham customers, parcel everywhere else from Bensenville.
The nearest centers, in order
Chicago first at about 587 miles, then Dallas at 592, New Jersey at 849 and Los Angeles at 1797. A placement plan built from your order history can put inventory in one, two or all four, and every one of them is inside the same freight network.
- 44 doorsdrawn to count above, one door per real door
- 30 mi ringChicago same day to the door
- 8 metrosnext day on Warp LTL, midwest page has the table
- 52 doorsdrawn to count above, one door per real door
- 30 mi ringDallas and Fort Worth same day to the door
- 8 metrosnext day on Warp LTL, texas page has the table
- 38 doorsdrawn to count above, one door per real door
- 30 mi ringNewark, Jersey City and New York City same day to the door
- 5 metrosnext day on Warp LTL, east coast page has the table
- 64 doorsdrawn to count above, one door per real door
- 30 mi ringLong Beach and Anaheim same day to the door
- 5 metrosnext day on Warp LTL, west coast page has the table
Frequently asked questions
Is there a 3PL or fulfillment center near Birmingham, AL?
The nearest Warp fulfillment center to Birmingham is Chicago (Bensenville, IL), about 587 miles away, with 44 dock doors. Birmingham ships from Bensenville on FedEx, UPS and USPS ground and express, with zone skipping when volume supports it, and pallets ride Warp LTL and truckload. Inventory for a cluster of Birmingham customers can stage at a Warp partner dock near Birmingham and replenish from Bensenville on Warp LTL.
Does Warp have a warehouse in Birmingham?
Not a fulfillment center. The nearest Warp fulfillment center is Chicago (Bensenville, IL), about 587 miles from Birmingham. When a cluster of Birmingham customers justifies it, inventory stages at a partner dock near Birmingham and replenishes from Bensenville on Warp LTL.
How fast, and for how much, do pallets move between Chicago and Birmingham?
Warp LTL and truckload, parcel ground and express. Warp LTL from Chicago to Birmingham is from $282 per pallet with 3 day transit, and Birmingham to Chicago from $351 per pallet, rates as of September 2026. Dallas is the next closest center at about 592 miles.
Book a strategy call
- TodayA 30 minute call. You tell us what you store and where your orders land.
- This weekHow much of your volume lands around Birmingham, whether Chicago alone or a second center holds it, and a custom rate for the freight in and out.
- First inboundYour pallets arrive on Warp trucks, scanned and photographed at receipt.
Before the call, optional
Both optional. They go into the rep's brief so the call opens on your volume and your metro, not on a blank page.
Fulfillment
30 min. You tell us what you store and where your orders go. We ask questions, you ask us back.
Fulfillment inside a freight network only pays off for some inventory profiles. We’d rather find out which of yours qualifies.
Who you'll meet
We’ll email your Google Meet link.
Put the inventory where the Birmingham orders already are
Bring where your orders land. On a strategy call Warp maps them against Bensenville and the other three centers, prices the freight in and out on its own network, and comes back with a placement plan built from your numbers.