LTL Freight Shipping Blog

When the bulk of your business revolves around shipping your merchandise to residential addresses, you will find that a large percentage of the big names in shipping are not likely to be willing to help you out. In most instances they deal in full loads and will only go to major hubs and well-known locations, they don’t do home deliveries. For this of shipping service you are going to need to find an LTL trucking company.

At LTL Freight Shipping, we understand your needs and specialize in helping companies just like yours find LTL trucking companies that are not only willing to carry smaller loads, but will deliver them to any address in the country, no matter how remote it is. The companies in our network will carry loads of between 100 and 10,000 pounds and up to six pallets in size at rates that will fit easily into your shipping budget.

Most companies whose business is based on shipping their products and being able to get them delivered in a reasonable amount of time cannot afford excessive delays. When you hire an LTL shipping company you are leasing only one small portion of the trailer and there is likely to be several other companies doing the same thing, with their merchandise that is headed in the same general direction.

With this combined method of LTL shipping it is quite likely that your freight will spend at least a certain amount of time sitting in a terminal waiting for the next truck headed to the next terminal on the way to your final destination. Your load could end up being the last one on the truck to be delivered which can also delay your shipment. At LTL Freight Shipping we work with freight carriers who do their best to get your freight delivered on time, but there are no guarantees.

For those who have never used any kind of LTL freight service, one of the first questions that come up concerns whether or not there are size and weight limits with this type of shipping. Although you are going to find that each carrier may have their own limits, there is a basic format that most LTL shippers follow as way to keep costs down and the number of happy customers up.

The most commonly accepted LTL freight guidelines call for a single shipment to be between 100 and 10,000 pounds, although some carriers go as high as 20,000 pounds. At the same time the load should contain no more than six pallets in size. For more information on LTL load sizes, contact LTL Freight Shipping and let one of our trained agents help explain how the system works and help you find carriers that will fit in with your needs.

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