Blood Transport Services in California
Blood products do not forgive a bad handoff. Red cells, platelets and plasma each have their own storage range, and a unit that leaves it may have to be discarded: a donation wasted and a patient still waiting. Lab Carriers moves blood and blood products between blood centers, hospital transfusion services and labs with the range, the paperwork and the urgency each unit needs.
Our blood transport services include scheduled inventory routes and 24/7 STAT dispatch from Fremont and Inglewood, covering the Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles and the rest of California.
Blood Transport with Lab Carriers
How Our Blood Transport Services Work
Your blood bank sets the packing and the range. Our job is to keep both intact from pickup to the transfusion service door, and to prove it.
STAT Blood Runs
Emergency release, massive transfusion support and urgent crossmatched units go direct: one driver, no other stops.
Scheduled Inventory Routes
Standing routes for routine replenishment and rotation between blood centers and hospital blood banks, on windows you set.
Range-Matched Vehicles
Refrigerated, controlled ambient or frozen, matched to the product: red cells cold, platelets at room temperature, plasma frozen.
Logged in Transit
Continuous temperature data loggers on the run, with the report delivered alongside the proof of delivery.
Chain of Custody
Timestamped pickup and delivery, a signature at each handoff, and a named driver on every run.
Samples Too
Donor testing samples and patient specimens moved under UN3373 by drivers trained in bloodborne pathogens and specimen handling.
Blood Product Transport for Hospitals and Blood Banks
Who we move blood for
Blood centers sending inventory to hospitals. Hospital transfusion services moving units between campuses or sending back short-dated product. Plasma centers shipping to processing. Reference labs that need donor samples or antibody workups picked up on a deadline. The common thread is time and temperature, and a recipient who cannot afford to have either go wrong.
Temperature, by product
Red cells typically ship at 1 to 10°C, platelets at 20 to 24°C, and frozen plasma stays frozen. Your SOP and your validated shipper define the exact requirement. We carry the shipper as packed and put it in a vehicle held to the matching range, so the container is not fighting the vehicle it rides in. If a logger reading drifts, dispatch sees it in transit and calls you before the unit arrives.
STAT means one driver, one job
When a hospital calls for units during a trauma or an obstetric bleed, the clock runs in minutes. A STAT blood run gets a dedicated driver who goes from the blood center to the transfusion service with no other stops, and dispatch stays on it until the cooler is signed for. Nights and weekends are not a lesser service. Dispatch runs 24/7 with a live person answering.
Why blood work gets our best drivers
Most freight can arrive late and still be useful. Blood often cannot. When we put drivers on blood routes we pick the ones who check a cooler before they leave the dock and call dispatch when something feels off, not after. We keep them on the same routes so they know which hospital dock is open at 3am and who signs for product at night. That familiarity is worth more than any software we could buy.
Asif Rehman, President, Lab Carriers
Blood Transport Across California
We run blood transport statewide from two hubs. Our Fremont hub covers the Bay Area, Sacramento and the Central Valley, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Fremont, Berkeley, Santa Clara, Hayward, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno. Our Inglewood hub, next to LAX, covers Southern California, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Burbank, Torrance, Irvine, Anaheim, Riverside, San Diego.
Farther out, we run direct and team-driver routes to rural sites and use Next Flight Out through SFO, OAK, SJC, SMF, LAX, BUR and LGB. See our full California coverage.
Blood Transport FAQs
Yes. We move red cells, platelets, plasma and other blood products between blood centers, hospital transfusion services, plasma centers and labs across California.
Units travel in the shipper your blood bank packs, inside a vehicle held to the matching range: refrigerated, controlled ambient or frozen. A continuous logger records the run and the report comes with the proof of delivery.
Yes. STAT runs get a dedicated driver with no other stops, and dispatch is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Yes. Many clients run standing routes for routine replenishment and use STAT dispatch for emergencies.
Our drivers hold bloodborne pathogens training through the American Red Cross, HIPAA training and IATA Dangerous Goods training, and handle specimens under UN3373.
Yes. Our Inglewood hub serves Los Angeles and Southern California, and our Fremont hub serves the Bay Area and Northern California.
Related Services
Related healthcare logistics services from Lab Carriers, dispatched from our Fremont and Inglewood hubs:
Healthcare & Life Science Services
Set Up Blood Transport Services
Tell us the facilities, the products and how often they move. We will set up a route, a STAT protocol, or both.
