LTL Shipping Made Easy

If you have been looking in your phone book for LTL carriers and coming up empty handed, it may not be because there aren’t any listed. The problem is more likely to be that this is the way they are listed in the phone book. In many cases LTL freight is handled by specific divisions of large FTL trucking companies and they simply do not bother to list these services separately.

However, rather than searching the phone book in vain for LTL carriers, there is a much better way to get the job done. You will find that by using the Internet and an LTL brokerage service, you can get freight quotes from a number of carriers in your area that you may never have found any other way. The best part of using a brokerage service is that the companies they will refer you to have all been thoroughly vetted for cost, quality and customer service ratings.

When you sit down and look at the number of times your company has paid to lease an entire truck just to ship out a half load or less, the cost can suddenly seem to be far more than you should be spending on shipping. You are either going to have to raise your shipping charges or change the type of shipping you use. Here is where you will find that LTL trucking companies can help you curb your costs.

When you switch to using LTL trucking companies to handle your smaller loads, you will no longer be paying for empty space in the trailer or worse yet paying for space you are not using but someone else is and being charged for as well. The LTL shipping companies only charge you for your load, and then lease out the rest of the space in the trailer to other companies, which will reduce your shipping costs significantly.

When you ship more of your products using an LTL shipping service, you need to make sure that you are truly getting the best value for your money. It is easy to get hooked into using the same company for all of your needs, figuring that if they offer you a good rate on one shipment, you are getting the best price on all of your shipments. Unfortunately this may not be the case, but the only way you are going to know for sure is to request quotes from other companies.

Here you are faced with two problems; first you really do not have the time to spend seeking quotes from a list of LTL shipping companies and secondly how do you know that any of the companies you call are reliable. The best way to solve both problems at the same time is to go through a brokerage service. While they do not own any trucks of their own, the services they recommend will have already been vetted and with a single form you will get a series of quotes to choose from.

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