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Full truckloadA truckload booking is a promise about a specific day. When the carrier falls through the morning of pickup, you are not looking for a better rate. You are looking for a truck. We confirm the carrier before it is assigned to your load, so the promise holds.
Most truckload problems start with the wrong trailer. We source the equipment the load actually needs rather than the one that happened to be cheapest that morning.
Palletized and floor-loaded freight moving as one shipment. Because the trailer is not shared, your load is not handled at a terminal between pickup and delivery, which removes most of the damage risk that comes with transfers.
Steel, lumber, machinery and anything oversized. We confirm tarps, straps and permit requirements when the load is quoted, so the driver arrives with the securement the freight needs rather than what was assumed.
Reefer capacity with the temperature set and recorded on the bill of lading. Getting that in writing at booking is what makes a claim provable if the freight arrives outside its range.
Four checkpoints between your call and your delivery.
You send the lane, the commodity, the weight and the dates. We come back with a rate and the equipment type the load needs, along with anything that will affect it, like a permit or a tarp.
We check operating authority, insurance and safety rating, then confirm the carrier before it is assigned to your load. You get the carrier name, not just a booking number.
We keep you posted while the load is moving, and add any email address you want on the updates. If a driver runs into a delay, you hear it from us rather than from your customer.
The break-even point moves with density, lane and season, so the honest answer is that it depends. As a starting point, look at truckload when any of these are true:
Send us the lane and the pallet count and we will price it both ways. If LTL is cheaper for your load we will tell you that, because a shipper who trusts the first answer asks for a second one.
Price it both waysWe will come back with a rate, the equipment the load needs and the carrier we would put it on.