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What Is LTL Trucking?
When you start trying to ship cargo with a Boston courier company there is going to be a lot of lingo and jargon thrown around which can be a bit overwhelming when they start bombarding you with it all. There is a lot to process, but if you learn just a few of the most frequently used terms you will quickly understand both what the courier companies are offering to you, and what kind of order that you will want to place with them.
One of the most common things is to hear a bunch of abbreviations, and one of the most common of those is "LTL". LTL is a term which stands for less than truck load, and its opposite is known as FTL, or Full truck load. LTL means that you do not have enough cargo to warrant renting an entire trailer just for your own goods, so the courier company will instead organize a shipment which rents space in a single trailer to various different companies. FTL means that a single company will only have their cargo aboard that trailer.
It is safe to say that an LTL shipment can be almost any size, because there are a lot of factors besides weight, especially size, which can dictate when shipping loads LTL is appropriate, but the generalized weight guideline is that any load between 100 and 10000 lbs is a good size for an LTL shipment. For any company that ships fairly frequently with loads of this size, shipping LTL can provide them with a much more cost efficient shipping option than FTL shipments.
The only downside to the use of an LTL shipment instead of an FTL is that it can take longer for your delivery to get to its destination. When you ship FTL, every single stop that is made along the route that your truck takes is going to be directly related to your company. On the other hand, when you're shipping something LTL you are sharing that truck with at least one other, or potentially many other companies, you only have a share in the truck.
As a result of this, you can expect that there are going to be many other stops along the way, either to redistribute at terminals, or to make actual deliveries, which are not going to be directly related to your shipment, all of which can add up to extra time before your product reaches its destination.
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