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  2. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of an amount of freight sized between individual parcels and full truckloads. [1] Parcel carriers handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than approximately 150 pounds (68 kg). Full truckload carriers move entire semi-trailers. Semi ...

  3. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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    A driver or carrier who specializes in, or a load composed of many different types of cargo, each typically weighing less than 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg), with many different destinations. Generally involves the use of terminal facilities to break and consolidate shipments. A LTL driver normally has a dedicated or regional route. [10] [25] [26 ...

  4. Cargo - Wikipedia

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    Less than truckload (LTL) cargo is the first category of freight shipment, representing the majority of freight shipments and the majority of business-to-business (B2B) shipments. LTL shipments are also often referred to as motor freight and the carriers involved are referred to as motor carriers .

  5. TFI International - Wikipedia

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    TFI International Inc. is a Canadian transport and logistics company based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, a borough of Montreal.It operates primarily in Canada, the United States, and Mexico through 4 business segments: less than truckload (LTL), package and courier, logistics, and truckload.

  6. Third-party logistics - Wikipedia

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    Lead logistics providers have the advantage that they have specialized industry expertise combined with low overhead costs, but lower negotiating power and fewer resources than a third-party provider has based on a normally big company size, a good customer base and established network systems. 3PL providers may sacrifice efficiency by ...

  7. Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Shipping - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Shipping

  8. Truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    Truckload shipping is freight transport in which a semi-trailer or intermodal container is filled entirely with one type of cargo. It differs from less-than-truckload shipping (LTL) in which freight from multiple customers is combined in one trailer. A truckload carrier is a trucking company that contracts entire trailer-load to a single customer.

  9. LTL - Wikipedia

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    Less than truckload, a freight industry term describing quantity; Less than lethal, weapons intended to cause bodily injury instead of death; Linear temporal logic, a field of mathematical logic; Littleborough railway station, with National Rail station code "LTL" The ISO 4217 currency code for the Lithuanian litas, former currency of Lithuania