What does "LTL" mean? What do you mean by "full truckload"?

"LTL transportation" refers to the consignment of a batch of goods in small quantities, not enough to load or take up a truck wagon (or a transport car) for transportation in the economy is not cost-effective, and by the transportation department to arrange for other consignments and other consignments to be assembled for transportation.

"Full truckload" means that the company transporting the goods will put them in different areas according to different destinations, and they can be loaded into one truck. The whole truck is loaded and unloaded at multiple points, and the weight is counted according to the total maximum load of the whole journey, and when the maximum load is less than the rated load of the vehicle, the weight is counted according to the rated load of the vehicle.

Expanded Information:

Truckload transportation needs to wait for a full truck to be assembled and is therefore slow. In order to overcome this shortcoming, has developed a fixed route, fixed-time LTL shuttle bus, can also use the flexibility of automobile transportation, the development of door-to-door service LTL delivery transportation. For example, the Japanese use of the "house with the right", "house rush to make" belongs to this form.

Because of the LTL transportation lines, stations, cargo categories, packaging shapes, nature, so the receiver must be familiar with the operating range of lines, stations, distance, transit range, station loading and unloading capacity, the physical and chemical nature of the goods and the transport restrictions and a series of business rules and relevant regulations.

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