LTL Freight Shipping Blog

If all that LTL companies haul is small loads, how on earth do they make money? In most cases you will find that these companies make more money than FTL or Full Truck Load companies. This is because an LTL company carries multiple shipments each of which is paying freight to a similar destination instead of a single customer paying for the entire truck. These small shipments typically add up to more than a single shipment.

For the small to medium businesses, this ability to make smaller shipments to a variety of customers at affordable prices can mean the difference between making a profit and going out of business. If you need to find LTL companies to handle your shipments, contact LTL Freight Shipping and let us connect you with companies that are in your area and are more than willing to work with you to get your loads delivered to where they need to go.

If you are the person in charge of making shipping arrangements for your company and you are not using a third party logistics company to help you with your LTL shipment needs, you are probably spending far too much in shipping costs. You will find that third party logistic companies such as LTL Freight Shipping are a great source of information.

Because they work in this field all day, every day they have the connections and the knowledge needed to help you find the most affordable LTL shipment company for your specific needs. More than this, since this is what they do all day long, they will have a list of prescreened carriers that they work with on a regular basis. This way you know up front that the carrier you are going to be using is fully licensed, has a good safety record and is properly insured before you allow them to carry your load.

“I am getting ready to ship an order using LTL freight shipping and have never used this type of service before. What I want to know before I make the final arrangements for a carrier to transport my shipment is whether or not my LTL freight quote is guaranteed or will it change once the order is picked up by the carrier?”

At LTL Freight Shipping the LTL freight quote we give you is guaranteed to stay the same under certain conditions. 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, description of the goods to be shipped change or the address to which they will be shipped changes, the quote will no longer be viable and a new one will have to be calculated based on the changes you have made.

“The vast majority of my shipments are bound for my customers’ homes and I need to know if the LTL carrier you recommend will make this type of delivery”. This is a valid concern and one that many business that have never used LTL carriers before express. You will find that this is one of […]

“I run a sports equipment distributorship and most of my shipment are single pieces of exercise equipment that are quite heavy. In some cases they can be quite large and I need to know how to find an LTL carrier that will deliver these products to my customers.”  This type of shipment is exactly what […]