LTL Freight Shipping Blog

In general, you will find that most LTL shipping companies and parcel carriers work in direct competition with each other for every dollar they can get. However you will find that there are still some companies that use them as a combined service. For example, the company might use an LTL carrier to take your freight to the appropriate state and then switch to a parcel carrier service for the final leg of the delivery. This is known as “Zone Skipping” and you will find that not all trucking services will do this as they see it as a conflict of interest.

However you will find that working with the carriers in our network at LTL Freight Shipping you may be able to take advantage of this type of service. If you use it properly, zone skipping can help you get your products delivered to your customers in a more timely fashion than trying to rely solely on the LTL shipping companies to carry them from your loading docks to their final destination.

When you start looking over your shipping manifests, you find that 95% of your shipments are sent out on a single pallet. The other 5% of them go out on two or at the most three pallets. The next thing you look at is your shipping costs and the numbers are rather scary; you are spending far too much for each shipment. If this sounds familiar, you are not using LTL freight shipping.

You should never have to rent the whole 53 foot trailer just to ship one or two pallets and at LTL Freight Shipping we completely understand your needs. In order to help you cut your shipping costs we have created a network of transportation companies that specialize in taking smaller loads from companies just like yours delivering them to places that the big name companies will not go anywhere near. Our carriers are willing to do this at rates that you can easily afford.

LTL Freight Shipping Has Its Benefits

In the early days when your business was new and small, it was not a problem making a trip to the nearest UPS pick up spot to send out what few shipments you were making each week. As your business has grown, so have your shipping needs. This means that it is time you started looking at the benefits of using LTL freight shippers to handle your shipments.

When you decide to start using LTL freight trucking companies such as those referred by LTL Freight Shipping, you will be able to ship your freight shipment to anywhere in the country, even the most remote locations at prices that are significantly lower than the post office or any of the major parcel shipping services. You will find that this is definitely a far more economical way to handle your shipping needs than constantly running to the nearest UPS office.

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