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How Do I Prepare A Shipment For LTL Freight?
Home » Logistics » LTL Freight » How Do I Prepare A Shipment For LTL Freight?Since freight sent via Less Than Truckload carriers must be handled several times during transit it must be packaged to withstand unintentional drops from dockworkers or forklifts. It is recommended that you load freight onto pallets or package freight into crate. Cardboard boxes are also acceptable.
Freight sent via Less Than Truckload carriers is subject to misrouting or misleading, so it is a good practice to put the Tracking number on each side of each piece of freight. If the destination state and zip code are affixed to each side as well misleading is less likely to occur. Even though it is not required it is a good practice to affix a relatively large label including four letter Carrier Code, Tracking Number, Destination Station, and Destination Zip Code of the shipment. The easier it is for dockworkers to identify an individual shipment the less likely it is to be put in the wrong place. If the only piece of identification is the tracking number the dockworker will have a harder time identifying the shipment pieces and as such the chances of freight being loaded onto the wrong trailer is greater therefore increasing the transit time and also increasing the chances of the shipment being lost.
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