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Invoice surprises are a frustrating pain point for LTL shippers. You generate a quote for your shipment, tender the shipment to your carrier, and invoice your customer based upon the expected freight costs. But then the invoice arrives, and maybe […]

Here is another good reason for LTL shippers to get their weights, dimensions, classes, and descriptions correct on the BOL: reweighs and how they affect freight class. My good friend Esslie Davis recently shared a perfect example.  She met with a shipper […]

If LTL shippers need another good reason to get their weights, dimensions, classes, and descriptions correct on the BOL, here it is. Shipments of mixed commodities where the carrier finds a weight discrepancy are subject to an assortment of applications.  […]

** 01/06/22 Update  –  Ward Trucking’s new Over-Length fees effective 1/3/22 are now available in the Excel file below** **01/04/22 Update  –  Southeastern’s new Over-Length fees effective 1/10/22 are now available in the Excel file below** With the start of […]

Al Pacino in the movie Any Given Sunday said that life and football both are a game of inches. So is small parcel shipping.  Both UPS and Fedex measure the size of packages by rounding to the nearest whole inch.  […]

There are lots of commonly seen numbers in LTL.  48 and 40 are standard lengths and widths for pallets.    Pup trailers are 28 feet long.  One of the lesser known yet very important numbers is 65.  Why? Item 680 (yep, […]

  Here’s a novel LTL pricing concept for you.  It’s called CBOP  = Cardboard Boxes On a Pallet.  If you ship product in cardboard boxes on pallets, density is by far the primary factor affecting LTL carrier cost.  Freight class […]

Mastio recently released their 2021 LTL carrier rankings. Their rankings are based upon interviews with nearly 1,500 shippers, and covered over 200 LTL carrier providers. Over 30 attributes were considered, including ontime pickups, damage claims, timely customer service, knowledgeable sales […]

LTL carriers rules such as Density Minimum Charge and Linear Foot Charge are designed to protect them from FAK programs. There would be little need for such rules if FAK programs did not exist. Let’s take a closer look. These rules […]

Do restaurants charge the same price for filet mignon and sirloin?  Of course not, or they would lose a lot of money selling a lot of filets and no sirloins. So why is this type of pricing practice so widely […]