Freight And Cargo Classes

When you get your bill from your Austin courier service

, they may itemize how your final amount owing was arranged at. Likely, on any detailed description of the service that they offered you, one thing that you're going to see is an item known as the freight class. This is something that is in common use across the courier industry, so it can be helpful to understand it as well as possible.

The freight class is a figure that is arrived at basically by judging how much the courier company is going to have to spend to move your package. Every vehicle that they have available can only fit so many packages on board, regardless of any strategic methods that may be used to try to cram them in. As such, the freight class represents that amount of space on that vehicle that your package will represent.

This means that the two primary figures that are used to establish a freight class are the weight and the size of your shipment. Many wonder why weight is used as well as the size, feeling it to be less of a packing concern. The reason for that is that trucks all have a weight limit imposed on them by safety authorities and the government. Dense packages could fill a truck even if there was still room actually left for more in the cargo bay.

There are other things which can drive up the cost to move a shipment though, and these will also cause your packages to get rated at a higher freight class. A good example of this is a package that is hugely overweight. In that case, a liftgate might need to be used, or in some extreme cases, even a crane. If that is the case, your freight class is going to go up greatly, because it's going to cost the courier company more to move your goods.

Another example of that is when you're shipping something that legally gets the courier vehicle classified as a slow moving vehicle. In that case, the courier is going to have to send extra vehicles along with the truck to act as pilot vehicles to warn traffic about the wide load or slow moving vehicle ahead. Another cost like that is going to equal another increase in freight class. Once the final freight class is arrived at, it will be used with the distance that you're shipping to get the amount you owe the courier company.

by: scott gallagher

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