| LTL Freight | | | | carrier going to different locations - and most of the |
| When your business begins to grow, you can no | | | | time, the locations are not really too far apart. |
| longer use the conventional methods of delivering | | | | What happens is that the less than truckload freight |
| your goods to your customers. If, let's say, in the | | | | carriers would arrange to collect shipments from |
| past, you have always used the postal courier to | | | | different shippers and they will then consolidate all |
| send goods to your customers on a fortnightly basis, | | | | the shipments onto their own enclosed trailers or |
| you are not able to use this same method anymore, | | | | trucks. Usually, the drivers would start their day by |
| especially when you have to send goods to your | | | | making delivery of shipments first and then begin to |
| customers twice a week now. Not only will it cost | | | | pick up shipments or freights from respective |
| more, it is also time consuming as you keep running | | | | shippers. Therefore, you would notice that the |
| to and fro the post office to manage your deliveries. | | | | deliveries of shipments are usually performed in the |
| So, what do you do then? There is one great option | | | | mornings, while pickups are done in the afternoons. |
| that you can consider - LTL freight carriers. | | | | The transit times for LTL freights are usually longer |
| Never heard of LTL freights? Well, LTL is short for | | | | compared to FTL freights because of the |
| less-than-truckload - meaning that the cargo that is | | | | dependence of the makeup of the network of |
| being shipped is between 100lbs and 20,000lbs, | | | | Terminals and Breakbulks that are operated by any |
| hence, it does not require the space of an entire | | | | given carrier and that said carrier's beyond. You may |
| truck by itself. This means, if you have various | | | | think that this is a setback of using LTL freight |
| shipments between 100lbs and 20,000lbs going out to | | | | carriers, but if your shipment is being picked up and |
| your customers, LTL freight is the way to go. With | | | | delivered by the same freight terminal, your shipment |
| LTL freight, you only pay for the space that you | | | | would most likely be delivered to your customer's |
| use, as LTL shipments are shipments that are | | | | place on the next business day after pickup. Hence, it |
| consolidated into a trailer or a truck that are going to | | | | is important to check with your LTL freight carrier on |
| the same destinations. Only in very rare occasions | | | | the transit time required for the delivery of your |
| you will find a shipment or two of an LTL freight | | | | shipment. |