LTL Freight Shipping Blog

With so many different LTL carriers on the road today, it can be very hard to know which ones are going to provide you with the best service at the most affordable price.  One thing to look at is each company’s reputation for getting your deliveries to their destinations in a timely manner. While no LTL carrier is going to guarantee delivery, you have a right to expect reasonable transit times and many companies offer this.

You should also take a close look at each LTL carrier’s claims to damage ratio as this gives you a good idea of the percentage they pay in cases where your freight is damaged while in their hands. The industry standard is about 1.25 to 1.3%. If you need help finding top quality carriers to handle our LTL freight needs, contact LTL Freight Shipping and let us help you find the right carrier for your shipments.

As with any other form of  trucking service, the LTL trucking industry will pick your freight from your loading dock and transport it to anywhere in the country for you. However, while FTL and LTL companies will carry your freight to anywhere, there is one major difference in how they take care of making sure that gets to your customers.

With an LTL trucking service such at those recommended by LTL Freight Shipping, your freight will be delivered to a local distribution center close to your customer, where it will be sorted and arrangements for delivery made. At this point a local driver will pick it up and take care of making sure that it is delivered to the customer for you.  While this might take a little longer that FTL or full truck load shipping, it is far more cost effective and personalized.

Even though LTL shipping companies and parcel carriers typically compete with each other for business, some companies still use them together. As an example of this, you might use the LTL carrier to move your freight to the appropriate state and then switch to a parcel carrier to deliver it to your customers. This is known as “Zone Skipping” and you will find that not 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.  When used 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.

One question that seems to come up frequently regarding LTL freight is whether or not there is a size limit. While each carrier may have his own specific set of rules governing what he will or will not carry as a LTL load, there is a generally accepted set of guidelines that you will find […]

When you first opened up for business, you could easily get away with using the post office or one of the parcel carrier services for your shipping needs. Now that your business has grown, it is time for your means of freight shipping to do the same. This means that you need to start taking […]