Protecting Fragile LTL Shipments: Crating, Strapping, and Shrink-Wrapping Standards
A typical LTL shipment travels through multiple weather patterns, seasons, and climate zones before reaching its destination. It passes through four to five terminal handling events. It is loaded and unloaded by forklifts, moved by conveyor, and stacked adjacent to other freight it has never met. Most freight survives this journey. Fragile freight that is […]
Linear Foot Rules: How Large LTL Pallet Shipments Trigger Full-Truckload Rates
Most shippers treat freight mode selection as a binary choice. LTL for smaller loads. FTL for full trucks. Everything in between gets defaulted to LTL because the pallet count does not feel like enough for a full truck. That default is costing businesses real money — especially on shipments between 6 and 12 pallets, where […]