What is meant by full truckload transportation and what is meant by less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation?

I. What is full truckload transportation?

The whole car transportation is usually a car a cargo ticket, a consignor. Road cargo transport enterprises should try to match the rated capacity and consignment volume of vehicles, but when the vehicle carrying freight load is larger, the amount of freight is lower than the rated capacity of the vehicle, in order to rationalize the use of the vehicle's loading capacity, but also can be assembled another shipper consignment of goods, i.e., a vehicle with two or more tickets, but the total weight of the goods shall not exceed the rated capacity of the vehicle.

Second, the standard of the whole car transportation

Where a batch of goods of weight, nature, volume, shape need to 1 or more than 1 trucks loaded, are all belong to the whole car transportation. In practice, the general shipper of a consignment of goods in 3 tons (including 3 tons) or more, or less than 3 tons, but its nature, volume, shape requires a 3 tons of road cargo transport, generally according to the whole truck according to the treatment.

Three, the advantages of full truckload transportation

Two or more tickets a car is, the whole truckload of goods need to be loaded and unloaded, according to the whole of the combined maximum load weight. Full truckload transportation by the shipper's own loading, not loaded with enough vehicle marking load, according to the vehicle marking load charge. Cargo transportation generally do not need intermediate links or few intermediate links, short delivery time, the corresponding freight distribution costs are lower.

What does LTL transportation mean?

LTL is a professional word in the logistics industry, and the volume of one piece of LTL cargo shall not be less than 0.02 cubic meters. However, when a piece weighs more than 10 kilograms, it is not subject to this minimum volume restriction. The number of pieces of LTL cargo per batch shall not exceed 300 pieces. So what other characteristics of LTL cargo transportation, Xiaomei for everyone to introduce the characteristics of LTL transportation.

One: the goods need to be rounded up and sent to the car, the speed of the car is slow. Due to the fact that the items sent by the owner of the goods is not enough for a car, and sometimes there will be more owners of the goods consignment, the items are more scattered, so you need to wait for the goods to make up a whole car and then send the car, in the time of sending the car is slower. There is an urgent need to install the already established time of departure.

Two: the consignment of goods scattered. LTL cargo transportation is characterized by a transport car with different sources of goods, while each source of goods shipped by the main address is not quite the same, but the transfer station is the same.

Three: more transportation links. The characteristics of LTL cargo transportation in the organization of complex LTL freight links are more, the operation process is more detailed, cargo distribution and loading requirements are also higher. LTL cargo quality determination, cargo loading and unloading are responsible for the station, the freight station should not only be equipped with a series of corresponding freight facilities, but also increased a large number of business management work.

Four: LTL is divided into small-ticket LTL and large-ticket LTL. Small ticket LTL is positioned in the 50~500kg express product service. There are three main types of owners of large-ticket LTL, manufacturing enterprises, three-way logistics, one or two wholesalers.

Five: Higher unit transportation cost. LTL cargo turnover links more, more prone to cargo damage, cargo difference, compensation costs are higher, therefore, resulting in a higher cost of LTL cargo transportation.