Customers that cannot ship enough goods to fill an entire truckload can take great advantage of less than truckload (LTL) transportation. Whether it is the carrier or third party freighting company that is organizing your cost structure for the shipping, pulling together several customer’s smaller shipping requirements may help reduce the cost for each customer as a full truckload takes advantage of lower overall costs.
LTL Says Hiring an Entire Truck
Efficiently driven trucks, using modern technology which helps to predict the road ahead, can dramatically reduce the cost of the fuel and to the environment. Maximizing the load by combining the shipping for several customers ensures that individual customers do not have to hire an entire truck and trailer to ship their goods locally, into the next state or cross-country.
This helps each customer pay far less for their goods to be shipped, compared to hiring a full truck and is an excellent way to take advantage of LTL transportation.
Customers will understand that by using LTL transportation, the delivery time may be increased slightly, but the saving in cost will make this worthwhile. The additional time for the load is required as the driver may need to visit several locations to collate their goods and will be shipping them to several locations for final delivery. There may be occasions where they are transporting the goods to another shipper to complete the journey. Every stop and start increases the overall time journey.
Small business owners are given the opportunity to share LTL transportation, where previously they had to resort to the U.S. Postal Service or other shipping alternatives which vastly increased the cost of the goods to the final customer. Where the goods can be transported collectively and at a lower overall cost, the final customer will always benefit by a lower shipping charge and perhaps the opportunity to include the shipping charge within the cost of the goods, marketing the sale as free shipping.
