LTL Freight Shipping Blog

When you run a small business that routinely ships smaller loads, such as single large items or one or two pallets at a time, there is little point in going to the expense of renting an entire truck to handle your load. Given the high cost of today’s shipping, this will cost you far more than your shipping budget can cover. Instead you really need to make arrangements with the right trucking company to handle every LTL shipment you have.

No One Company Can Handle Every LTL Shipment You Have

The problem is that there isn’t likely to be a single trucking company that can handle an LTL shipment to everywhere and you are going to need to use more than one company to move your shipments to their individual destinations. We can help you find a trucking company in our network or carriers that will be able to take each of your shipments to its final destination.

When your company regularly ships out small loads and you have been using the first LTL trucking company you found listed in the yellow pages, you are likely to find that you are paying far more than you should be.  The best way to cut your shipping costs is to use the Internet to help you get a much lower LTL freight quote for your shipments so that you can start saving money.

We Are Your One Stop LTL Freight Quote Site

Rather than wasting valuable time looking for an LTL freight quote by yourself, you will find that you will have much more luck using a brokerage service such as ours to get the lowest prices. We can help you with this because we have worked hard to create a network of top quality LTL freight carriers that will work with you to carry your load to anywhere in the country at rates that are not going to break your budget.

When all of your shipping to this point has been large enough to fill up entire truckloads, you are probably used to dealing with FTL or full truck load carriers. However, now that you are starting to have much smaller loads to ship as well, you are going to have to start looking for LTL trucking companies. These companies specialize in carrying loads that weigh anywhere from 100 to 10,000 pounds and consist of 6 pallets or less.

LTL Trucking Companies Keep Their Rates Down Carrying Multiple Loads

You will find that LTL trucking companies can keep their rates down because they combine shipments from several customers together into a full load that is going to the same general area. Once the load has arrived at the appropriate distribution center, it will be split back up and delivered to the right customers. When you need this type of shipping, contact one our agents and let us connect you with the best trucking company for your needs.

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As the owner of a small business that regularly ships a large number of small to mediums size loads on a regular basis, you are going to need to find the best LTL carriers to handle your shipments for you. Instead of taking a chance and grabbing random names from the phone book, you will […]