If you ship a lot of LTL to a numerous locations, you’re eventually going to run into drop trailers. What is a drop trailer? True to it’s a name, a drop trailer is a trailer that is left at a location for an indeterminate amount of time. It’s “dropped,” and picked up later. Most of …
I was reading the news the other day and saw the discovery of the second-largest diamond in the world in Botswana. Dang, I thought, that is a rather large diamond. I wonder how much that would cost to ship from Africa to Texas? Obviously, that’s not going to happen, but it got me thinking about …
If you’re serious about your freight shipping, you’re always looking to add value to your logistics game. What does it mean to add value? Pretty simple, really. By streamlining your truckload freight through a series of broker processes, you can save money and time that will add value to the other parts of your business. …
Anyone who has spent hours reaching out to providers for LTL and volume quotes know how time consuming and stressful that process can be. Time spent waiting for an emailed response to your quote request can make you feel like there’s just not enough time in the day. You’ve got other things to do! While having FreightPros assist …
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TV shipping is tough. You’re dealing with a very expensive item that’s also very fragile, and you’re trying to move it from one place to the next without bumping, dropping, flipping, hurting, shattering, or destroying it. There are ways to ship your television. LTL is not one of them. When I recently bought a new …