LTL Shipping Made Easy

While you might think that LTL companies are just another trucking outfit that transports freight from one location to another and in many ways you are right, these companies have one characteristic that separates them from the mainstream FTL trucking companies. It is that they are willing to haul less than full truckload shipments. Even more importantly, they will haul these smaller loads and deliver them to practically any address that they can get their truck in to.

LTL Companies Will Deliver to Practically Any Address

We can help you connect with LTL companies that can help you move your merchandise out of your warehouse and ensure that it gets delivered to your customers, no matter where they live. Our mission is to help businesses like yours with companies that can do this for you and keep the prices down into a range where you can afford to make your customers happy and keep your shipping department within their budget.

As you look at the ever increasing cost of everything you do, including your shipping, you have a unique opportunity to save money and do your part to reduce energy consumption. If your freight shipments are typically less than six pallets, you should be using an LTL shipment carrier. It simply does not make sense to hire an entire truck and pay the costs for it and the fuel needed to run it.

Save Fuel and Money Using an LTL Shipment Carrier

When you make arrangements for an LTL shipment, your load will be added to those from other companies and be used to make up a full load. The average truck is going to get approximately the same fuel mileage whether it is half full or fully loaded, so your load when combined with others you are saving fuel and still getting it to where it needs to go. We can help to coordinate your LTL shipments nationwide so that we can help you save money on your shipping needs.

There are times when you can afford to wait for an LTL freight quote and then there are times when you can’t. When you have a customer that calls in an urgent last minute order, the last thing you need is for the freight company you contact to give you the runaround regarding your shipping rates or worse yet give you a quote that is completely different than what you are charged when the bill comes due.

You will find that when you use an online brokerage service, you can get an instant LTL freight quote. Not only can you get your quote this quickly, but the quote is guaranteed to be accurate as long as nothing about your shipment changes from the time you request the quote to the time that the carrier arrives and picks it up from your loading dock. Of course if anything does change, you can easily request a new quote.

One of the questions most frequently asked is whether or not LTL trucking companies offer any kind of guarantee on delivery dates for their shipments. Generally speaking the answer to this question is no they don’t as given the nature of this type of shipping, there is no way that the possibly could. Your shipment […]

“I run a small automotive equipment distributorship and most of my shipment are single pieces of equipment that are shipped to garages around the country. In many cases these pieces of equipment can be quite large and I need to know how to find an LTL carrier that will deliver these products to my customers.” […]