There are lots of different ways to ship a large load of cargo to your customer across the country. First of all, you might have an operation where you have your own vehicle and shipping agents who will drive it out there. You might be able to send it through the postal service depending on the size of the shipment. More likely is that you'll try and find a courier to move your shipment. One option that a Phoenix courier of a certain size is probably going to offer you is something called LTL shipping.
Any time you're trying to ship something which is roughly any larger than 100 lbs, you are probably going to have LTL shipping suggested to you by someone at your courier company. LTL stands for less than truck load, and is the kind of shipping most often used for goods which fall in the greater than 100lbs and less than 10000lbs category.
As this shipping method means less than truck load, it essentially means that all of the available room on any given truck is shared between several different clients of the courier who are shipping in the same direction. The advantage of this is that by sharing with more clients, the courier is actually making a more profitable shipping run. This brings down the overall cost, and LTL shipping is often one of the most affordable shipping methods around.
LTL is also affordable though because it can take longer for your package to arrive. Because there are usually so many other clients involved in a shipment, it is difficult to have a package take priority out of sequence. If you have special requests or need more personalized shipping solutions, you typically have to move to FTL, which means full truck load.
Usually, FTL shipping is reserved for those that are shipping large enough cargo loads to justify the hiring of an entire truck. However, some companies that are shipping close to this amount may opt to go that route rather than LTL because of the additional flexibility such an option would afford them.
LTL shipping is affordable, readily available, and is often the best option to get larger shipments of cargo to your clients. If you have a courier that you deal with regularly, ask what kinds of LTL rates and options they have available so that you can start taking advantage of this very useful shipping method as soon as possible.
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