When I first started with FreightPros I wasn’t sure what to expect. Freight was a brand new world for me and the Solutions Team was new and still being shaped to what it is today: The Dream Team to help our customers navigate the complicated and at times unpredictable world of LTL shipping. Here are …
Continue ReadingThe Solutions Team & 3 Ways to Fix Your LTL Shipping
If you’re a regular LTL freight shipper, you know the complications with freight class. You finally find the right one for your product and then the NMFTA goes and changes it! Maybe they move it from NMFC to density classing! You never know with those pesky NMFTAers. From class 50 to 500, the cheapest …
Continue ReadingClass 50 Freight: Weird things you can ship LTL on Class 50
There are two ways to class freight in LTL: Density or NMFC. We’ve already discussed at length the explaining of freight class, and we’ve even got a Free Freight Paper on The Mysteries of Freight Class, but as carriers such as Fedex and UPS begin the process of density/dimensional pricing for their small package shipments, …
Continue ReadingDensity vs NMFC: The Battle of the LTL Freight Classes
Classing your freight can be difficult, especially with the current classing system the majority of LTL carriers use. An organizational body known as the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) is responsible for publishing the National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC), a standard that provides a code to just about any commodity imaginable. This code …
How to ship wine? It’s a question as old as Dionysus. Well, not really. But the question of how to ship wine LTL or truckload is a question we get often at FreightPros, and one we’re happy to help with. The first step? Package, package, package. Most wine comes in glass bottles. You know what …