A hazmat consultant based where your freight actually moves.
Altor Consulting is a dangerous goods compliance practice in Long Beach, serving shippers across Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Inland Empire. The national firms answer with a quote form and a sales call. We answer with a published price, a 24 hour clock, and a citation on every finding.
Built for this region's freight
Southern California moves dangerous goods through three chokepoints: LAX air cargo, the San Pedro Bay ports, and the Inland Empire's warehouse corridor around Ontario. Each has its own failure pattern. Air shipments bounce at the acceptance desk on declaration paperwork. Ocean moves stall on IMDG documentation. And the battery device importers clustered from Costa Mesa to Rancho Cucamonga are absorbing the January 2026 lithium state of charge changes with no DG specialist on staff. Recent FAA penalties landed on shipments physically at UPS Ontario and FedEx Irvine, so enforcement is not an abstraction here.
The founder is an Air Force air terminal operations veteran who ran hazmat acceptance for military airlift in the US and Germany, which is also why Altor is the rare practice covering both civil rulebooks and AFMAN 24-604 military documentation for the region's defense and space companies.
What a local shipper can hand us today
DGD Pre-Check
Send the completed declaration before you tender it. Line by line advisory report in 24 hours, every finding cited.
$95 flatDGD Creation & Check
Your shipper's declaration created or audited, returned with citations and corrected entries.
from $175SDS Authoring
GHS aligned 16 section Safety Data Sheets from your composition data.
from $395DG Training
Live virtual training for shipping desks, IATA and 49 CFR grounded.
from $1,250Military SDDG & AFMAN 24-604
Defense shipment documentation for contractors moving hardware on military airlift.
from $450Rejected shipment recovery
Freight parked at the desk? Corrected paper back in 24 hours.
$95 · detailsService area
Los Angeles, Long Beach, and the port complex. Orange County from Anaheim to Irvine and Costa Mesa. The Inland Empire including Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Riverside, and San Bernardino. El Segundo and the South Bay aerospace corridor. Document work is delivered remotely nationwide; the region is where we can be in the room.
Start with the $95 pre-check
The cheapest way to find out whether your paper survives the acceptance desk is to check it before the carrier does.
Pre-check my DGD · $95 → Request a consult 424.397.4482