{"id":955,"date":"2013-08-02T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2013-08-02T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:31:13","slug":"the-ultimate-guide-to-freight-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-ultimate-guide-to-freight-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Guide to Freight Shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pallet\"<\/a>Let’s just make this clear: freight shipments are any shipments going on a pallet. \u00a0A basic UPS or Fed Ex shipment is not a freight shipment, however I will go over some of the confusion that can arise with those as well. \u00a0Shipments usually need to go on a pallet because of their weight and\/or size.<\/p>\n

When shipping via Freight or LTL (Less than Truckload) as some call it, there is a lot of mystery. \u00a0There are mystery fees that can arise, a mysteriously long lead time may occur, and you may mystified when they s
\nhow up and they have no way of unloading your shipment! \u00a0This post is dedicated to get rid of this mystery, so you<\/p>\n

\"estes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

know as much as possible when that big freight truck shows up to your\u00a0shipping destination. \u00a0To the left is an example of a typical freight truck as you can see these aren’t small and they are really designed for business to business shipments where said business has all equipment needed.<\/p>\n

Equipment Needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to accept a shipment with no extra fees, you will need a forklift or a loading dock at the shipment location. \u00a0This is so the pallets can be unloaded off the truck with ease. \u00a0If you don’t have either of these the freight company can use a ‘lift gate’ to unload the shipment. \u00a0This can add between $50 and
\n\"unloading\"<\/a>$100 to your shipping cost. \u00a0Now, understand some freight companies will not charge to use their lift gate, especially if they already have it on their truck. \u00a0But this is the exception, not the rule. \u00a0Also, if it’s just one pallet and you have people handy, most drivers will let you jump on the truck and just take the product off the pallet. \u00a0This is typically not a problem. \u00a0If you can borrow a forklift or ship to a location with a forklift\/loading dock, that can make the processes smoother as well.<\/p>\n

What to expect when they show up:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can expect them to show up without warning. \u00a0All shipments have a contact and a phone number for the delivery, but the driver is not required to call. \u00a0The driver is expecting someone to be at the location of the shipment to sign for the shipment and show where to unload it. \u00a0If you want the driver to call 30 minutes or so before, this usually costs extra but depends on the carrier. \u00a0This is around $50 extra, typically.<\/p>\n

Grounds for extra fees:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it’s shipping to a school, church, residence or military address – mainly because this typically means it’s a limited access location. \u00a0This is usually around $50-$100 extra. \u00a0Basically anything other than a city or business address will incur extra charges. \u00a0As stated before, a call ahead is usually $50 or so extra. \u00a0If you don’t have a forklift and need to use the driver’s lift gate, fees for that are around $75.<\/p>\n

Lead times on Freight Shipments:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lead times on LTL\/freight shipments are longer than a typical UPS shipment because they travel via a hub system. \u00a0Where it may be 5 business days to ship a package via UPS from California to New Jersey, that same shipment going on a pallet would typically take 7-8 business days.<\/p>\n

We ship freight more often than UPS or Fed Ex, and created this post to help our customers regarding orders from our website, www.trans-supply.com<\/a>. \u00a0As you can imagine, lots of freight questions arise so we figured a post detailing the whole process would be beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s just make this clear: freight shipments are any shipments going on a pallet. \u00a0A basic UPS or Fed Ex shipment is not a freight shipment, however I will go over some of the confusion that can arise with those as well. \u00a0Shipments usually need to go on a pallet because of their weight and\/or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,1],"tags":[289,290,291],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic-safety","category-transportation-safety","tag-freight-shipments","tag-ltl","tag-ups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}