The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 58 minutes from OAK. Everything else, the booking out of OAK, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
Open · United States desk · Tracy
On Board Courier, Tracy
Hand carry work from Tracy and the surrounding California area. Departures run through Oakland Metropolitan, 75 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
OnBoard Courier is a United Arab Emirates company, contracted by ICSL FZE and run from Dubai. A city named on this site is a place we cover and route through, not a separate company in that city. Assignments are contracted under UAE law, and the terms are published in full under legal and policies.
Based inTracy, California
Nearest gateOAK · Oakland
Drive to the aircraft75 km · 58 minutes
Nonstop from OAK89 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600
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Applying is free. Freelance · self-employed ·
posted 7 September 2026 · open until 7 March 2027
What the work pays
The fee for an assignment is agreed with you in writing before you accept it. These are the figures the site publishes, and what the desk covers on top of them.
Top published feeAED 2,000The highest fee the site shows for a single assignment: sealed medical samples in a cooled case, Dubai to Singapore.
Published band, per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600A document pouch to London is AED 1,200, an aircraft part to Frankfurt AED 1,500, an escorted watch on the Berlin lane AED 1,800.
What the flight costs youAED 0The desk books and pays the ticket, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never fronts the fare.
The one payment you makeAED 199, returnedThe Academy, paid once. It comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. Applying itself is free.
Fees vary with the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate, so the desk quotes each assignment individually rather than pretending one number fits every trip. You are self-employed and there is no minimum: accept or decline whatever you like, and declining costs you nothing. Earnings are paid per delivery by bank transfer, they appear in your courier portal, and you can request a payout once the balance reaches AED 200. Apply and see the flight board.
You fly as a passengerOne consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature. No warehouse, no van, no round.
The desk books and pays the ticketFlight, transfers and, where the routing needs it, a hotel are booked before you leave for the airport.
Paid per assignmentA fee agreed in writing before you accept, paid to your bank account after the signature. Applying is free.
How to start, in four steps
1
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
2
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
3
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
4
Fly, hand over, get paid
Collect, board, clear customs in person, hand over against signature, and the fee is paid to your account.
The assignment
Some trips out of Tracy are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of SEA, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to OAK is 58 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Tracy
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Tracy. The nearest usable gate is OAK at 58 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
At 58 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Tracy about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. The desk will send you to SJC when the routing is better from there. It is 1 hour 9 minutes from Tracy and carries 122 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OAK | Oakland Metropolitan | 75 km | 58 minutes | 89 |
| SJC | San Jose Norman Y. Mineta | 85 km | 1 hour 9 minutes | 122 |
| SFO | San Francisco | 99 km | 1 hour 17 minutes | 189 |
Tracy is a city of 87,000 people in California, and the clock there runs 11 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 12 in winter. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What OAK reaches without a change
OAK is not a name on a map to this desk, it is a departure board. The network file the site publishes shows 89 airports served nonstop from OAK, across 6 countries, by 12 operating carriers.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAS | Las Vegas | Las Vegas McCarran | about 15 departures a day | 4 operators: Southwest Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| SAN | San Diego | San Diego | about 14 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| BUR | Burbank | Burbank Bob Hope | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| SEA | Seattle | Seattle Tacoma | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| SNA | Santa Ana | Santa Ana John Wayne -Orange County | about 8 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| PDX | Portland | Portland | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| PHX | Phoenix | Phoenix Sky Harbor | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| SLC | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City | about 6 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Tracy can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
What moves out of Tracy
This site keeps a public register of industrial sites for some airports, and OAK is not one of them. Rather than guess, the honest statement is that assignments from Tracy are driven by deadlines rather than by any one factory: contracts, components, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Tracy is useful to the desk
Being close to OAK is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Tracy measures 58 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
The Gulf is one change away from OAK rather than nonstop, which is worth stating plainly. From Tracy the best single change is Seattle (SEA), and SEA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Tracy and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
The nearest other cities on the United States list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Tracy
Stockton27 km away, OAK in 1 hour 21 minutesLivermore31 km away, OAK in 37 minutesModesto39 km away, OAK in 1 hour 32 minutesFremont54 km away, SJC in 25 minutesConcord59 km away, OAK in 43 minutesSan Jose61 km away, SJC in 7 minutesFairfield78 km away, OAK in 1 hour 5 minutesSan Mateo82 km away, SFO in 11 minutesVallejo83 km away, OAK in 48 minutesSacramento94 km away, OAK in 1 hour 52 minutesMerced96 km away, OAK in 2 hours 18 minutesRoseville113 km away, OAK in 2 hours 13 minutes
All 208 United States cities are listed on the United States courier desk, which stays the general application for the country.
The engagement, and who we are looking for
The engagement
- Type: freelance, self-employed. You are an independent courier accepting individual assignments, not an employee, and you decide which ones you take.
- Where it runs: assignments are flown out of OAK and the other airports listed above, between the United States and wherever the consignment is going, with the return leg agreed per mission.
- Hours: variable. An assignment is a single trip, not a shift or a roster.
- How you are paid: a fee per completed assignment, agreed in writing before you accept it. The fees published on this site run from AED 1,200 for a document pouch to AED 2,000 for a cooled medical consignment, and the figure for your assignment reflects the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate.
- What the desk pays: the flight, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never pays for the ticket and never fronts the fare.
- Applying is free. No payment is required to apply, to be screened or to be placed on the courier list. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and is returned in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier ever makes to us.
What we look for
- A passport with comfortable remaining validity and free pages, and the right to enter the country on the routing. The desk checks the visa position for your specific passport before any assignment is offered.
- A clean background check and a willingness to be verified. Couriers carry other people’s property.
- Availability at short notice, and a realistic view of the 58 minutes drive to OAK. Most assignments are confirmed hours, not days, before departure.
- Presentable, calm and articulate at a customs counter. The consignment is only as smooth as the person carrying it.
- A working phone, reachable on the number you gave us, for the whole assignment.
What we provide
- The ticket. Always. A courier never pays for the flight and never fronts the fare.
- The paperwork, prepared before you reach OAK, and a named contact at the desk on both ends.
- A briefing on the consignment, the consignee and what the customs position at the far end looks like.
- A fee per completed assignment, agreed with you in advance and paid by bank transfer after the handover.
Questions about the Tracy list
01How far is Tracy from OAK?
About 58 minutes, 75 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of OAK tonight.
02What can I reach from Tracy without a change of aircraft?
OAK serves 89 airports nonstop across 6 countries with 12 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Tracy can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Tracy to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Tracy the best single change is Seattle (SEA), and SEA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Tracy and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No. Most assignments touch the Emirates because the desk is there, but couriers on this list live in Tracy and fly from OAK. Being in Tracy changes which offers you see, not whether you can be on the list.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Nothing to apply and nothing to be screened, in Tracy or anywhere else. The single payment that exists is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and returned in full on top of your first completed assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk sends the routing, the timing and the fee for that specific assignment in writing. You accept or decline it. Nothing is deducted or charged without your written agreement.
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