The movement of cargo from point A to point B by road via truck or rail is called land freight transportation.

What are the types of land freight shipments?
There are important types of shipment movement involved in land freight transportation. One is LTL (Less than Truck Load) shipments that move cargo weighing between 150 and 15,000 pounds. Efficient for national and international land freight shipments that occupy less than 24 feet of space and do not exceed 5 pallets.

Then there is FTL (Full Truck Load) where the truck trailer carries only one bulk shipment. All space is reserved for an exclusive shipment. This type of transportation has several benefits including
Cheaper compared to LTL trucks.

The shipments arrive quickly at the destination since there are no other intermediate scales.
Less handling, which means less chance of merchandise being damaged
Container trucking is another type of shipping mode in which containers are moved between the loading location and the container port (or yard).

Heavy-duty truck transportation is the one that is moved by heavy-duty trailers made especially to handle cargo of any size and weight.

How does land transport works?
Land transportation services are stable and flexible, safe and convenient. Most of the products that are transported include consumer goods, refrigerated foods and perishable goods, pharmaceutical and medical products, hazardous and non-hazardous solids and liquids, chemicals, dangerous goods, heavy equipment and machinery, construction materials such as sand, rocks , asphalt and steel.

Most LTL system jobs follow this process. The shipment is first picked up at point A. Point A is the sender's loading location. The shipment is then delivered to the service provider or third-party warehouse. The shipment is then sorted and joined with other loads with the same destination. The same process continues until the shipment reaches the recipient's location.

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