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Types of Freight
LTL Shipping
Partial Truckload Shipping
Full Truckload Shipping
Air Ride Truckload (Full or Partial)
Air Freight
Less than Truckload (LTL)
A popular type of freight transportation, LTL freight is generally shipped by truck to and from your pickup and destination locations. LTL freight shipping is the most cost-effective, reliable and timely service because your shipment shares a truck with other LTL freight shipments.
Partial Truckload
Different from LTL freight, this type of freight involves a dedicated truck that moves fewer loads at one time and handles all types of commodities; including refrigerated, temperature-controlled, hazardous material and overweight or oversized goods. Partial truckload shipping is reserved for medium-size loads that are booked by volume or require running feet of a truck.
Full Truckload (FTL)
This service is commonly used for large shipments that require taking up the entire truck, or at least close to it. The standard options are 20 or 40 foot in length containers. With FTL, your freight is the only freight moving on an individual truck so you have exclusivity to the entire truck and theoretically are filling the truckload.
Air Ride Truckload (Full or Partial)
If your shipment is delicate or has a high risk of damage, then a dedicated truck with air-ride suspension is the most preferred method of transportation. For this type of freight, air ride provides a softer ride than a standard freight truck. Because this type of service is used less frequently it can often be more expensive than a standard full or partial truckload shipment.
Air Freight
Air freight services have the fastest transit time by far. Cargo airlines or air freight carriers are dedicated to handling logistics for the transport of cargo. Specifically, for the shipping of smaller packages, types of air freight usually have a higher density, which means they don’t take up much space on a cargo plane but they do meet the weight requirements to be considered freight. If the package weighs more than 100 pounds and is tightly packed, air freight shipping can be more cost-effective than LTL freight methods
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