LTL Freight Shipping Blog

When you are running a medium sized online retail business, you have to rely on getting the products you sell delivered to practically any address in the country. This can be a problem as many of the larger shipping companies that tend to only carry full loads have no interest in handling smaller loads let alone delivering them to 101 Main Street in Anyplace, USA. This is where you need to have access to LTL shipping companies to handle your freight.

We Can Connect You with the Right LTL Shipping Services

You will find that if you contact one of our agents, they can take care of connecting you with LTL shipping companies that specialize in carrying smaller loads such as you routinely send out. Not only do these companies handle smaller loads, they will deliver them to any address in the country no matter how remote it might happen to be.

There are a number of different terms when it comes to shipping and this can definitely make things a little confusing. The term LTL freight is used to cover Less than a Truck Load or any shipment that is less than six standard pallets in size or weighs less than 10,000 pounds. This is a very common form of shipping and while many carriers handle this type of shipping, it is not always as easy as it should be to arrange.

LTL Freight Carriers Will Carry Multiple Shipments

With LTL freight carriers will put together shipments that belong to multiple carriers destined for the same location and mover them from one terminal to another, until the shipments reach their final destination. We have built relationships with over 40 well known national carriers that allows us to help you find the best discounted rates possible for all of your shipping needs.

Although the bulk of your freight shipping requires an FTL carrier, there are times when you need to send out much smaller loads to particular customers. If you end up using your regular FTL carrier, the cost of the shipment can easily absorb all of the profits you were going to make. Yet you can’t afford to lose a good customer over the cost of shipping and you don’t want to pass these costs onto them either.

We Specialize In Helping You Keep Your Freight Shipping Costs Down

When you run into this type of situation, you need to find an LTL carrier that is willing to handle your smaller freight shipping needs. At LTL Freight Shipping we specialize in connecting companies with needs like yours with carriers who are willing to take care of your smaller loads, transport them anywhere they need to go and do so at a price that will allow you to still make a profit.

As a machine shop equipment manufacturer we ship out large single items with one or two associated packages at a time, this means we need to find the best LTL companies to handle our shipments. The problem is that with so many different companies listed online we do not have any idea which ones will […]

“Before we sign up to use any LTL trucking outfit, we need to know  if there are any restrictions on what LTL companies will carry” This is a very typical question for first time users, the answer is that what a carrier will or will not carry is entirely up to the individual company. While […]