Dry Run Fees There are a lot of fees in freight shipping. I know everyone wishes it was as simple as a freight quote; boom, bam, done and done (I know your freight broker dreams of such a time), but then it wouldn’t be the freight industry. That should be a motto: If it was …
Shipping fertilizer is one the most common types of LTL shipping that we do here at FreightPros, and so for you fertilizer freight shippers out there, we took the time to mark up a quick blog post about the basics of fertilizer shipping. As with any LTL shipment, you’ve got to mind the basics when …
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A question we get a lot here at FreightPros is: When should I add “Notify Consignee” to my BOL? On this third Friday of the new year, we’re going to tackle this question. And while we’re at it, we’re going to answer some more questions about “Notify Consignee” in LTL shipping, including what it is, …
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 …