LTL Freight Shipping Blog

One question that seems to come up from time to time regarding LTL companies is whether or not there is any kind of freight that they will not carry.  This is a reasonable question as not everyone ships boxes of tissues. There is a simple answer to this question, even if it really does not answer the question in quite the way you wanted it to be answered.

Now to reduce this confusion to a simple statement, all of the LTL companies we recommend here at LTL Freight Shipping make their own decisions what they will and will not carry in their trucks. This decision is based on what their licensed and insurance policies cover as well as what licenses and certifications their drivers have. If you are planning to ship hazardous or unusual products, you will need to contact each carrier until you find one that is prepared to handle your shipments.

When you are a smaller business that routinely ships out smaller load such as single heavy items or one or two pallets at a time, the last thing you need is to have to rent an entire truck to handle your load. This is likely to cost you far more than you can afford, what you really need to do is make arrangements with the right company to handle every LTL shipment you have.

However, what you are likely to find is that there is no one company the can handle an LTL shipment to everywhere. You are likely to need to use more than one company to move your shipments all over the country. At LTL Freight Shipping 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.

If you are regularly shipping smaller loads and using the first LTL carrier you happened to come across in the phone book, you are probably paying far too much for the service.  Today, using the internet, you will find that you can get an online LTL freight quote that can save you a fortune, if you know how to go about looking for a quote.

Instead of spending hours looking for an LTL freight quote by yourself, you will find that you will have much more luck using a brokerage service such as LTL Freight Shipping to get the lowest prices. We can do 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.

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