LTL Freight Shipping Blog

In most cases small and medium sized companies have little reason to lease a full size 53 foot trailer to deliver their goods and to do so would be an incredible waste of money and resources. If you find yourself in this position you will find that using LTL trucking companies can be far more affordable if you know how to go about find the best LTL shipment rates.

One of the easiest ways to get the best rates on your LTL shipments is to go through a brokerage services, rather than trying to find them yourself. In most cases you are going to find that a broker such as LTL Freight Shipping has a much bigger network of trusted shipping companies to draw on than you are likely to find by yourself. This makes it much easier for you to get the best possible rates for every shipment you make.

When you have never made use of an LTL shipping company before, it is only natural that you are going to have questions regarding their services. One of the more common questions concerns whether or not the trucking company you contract with is going to stand by the LTL freight quote you were given when you first contacted them to arrange for the shipment.

The LTL freight from LTL Freight Shipping is guaranteed to stay the same as long as you meet certain requirements. These requirements are simply that the details of the shipment at time of pickup must be the same as they were when you requested the quote. If the weight, size or description of the goods to be shipped change or the address to which they will be shipped be changed, your quote will no longer be viable and a new one will have to be calculated based on the changes you have made.

As an LTL freight brokerage service we are often asked if the majority of the LTL trucking companies we have in our network are small little known companies or are they bigger companies that have divisions dedicated to LTL freight. It might surprise you to know that while many of the LTL trucking companies are smaller outfits, a large number of well-known large trucking companies carry smaller shipments as a way to keep their trucks full and their profits up.

At LTL Freight Shipping we have built a network of LTL trucking companies that are dedicated to providing shipping for small loads for small and medium businesses. Every one of these trucking companies has been thoroughly prescreened to ensure that they handle the size of load that you are trying to ship and that your freight will arrive in good condition.

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Many companies are under the opinion that if they use LTL carriers to handle their shipping, there is a high risk of it being left to sit in a warehouse or on a loading dock forgotten. While there is a possibility that your shipment might spend some time sitting in a warehouse waiting for the […]