subject: The Right Vehicle For The Right Job [print this page] "Use the right tool for the right job." It's an old, worn out saying, but it holds true in the shipping industry. For the most part, the customer doesn't care what type of vehicle is used to transport their goods, as long as it doesn't affect the price that they pay for the service. When using a leading St. Louis Courier Service, they will select the vehicle that is used to transport your cargo. If you have a few documents that cannot be sent via fax due to having original signatures or similar characteristics, and you need to have them sent across town in the next 20 minutes, the carrier might choose to utilize a small car that does not burn a lot of gasoline.
On the other hand, if you tell your St. Louis courier service that you need to have 16 pallets of cocktail wieners headed for Tallahassee, they probably would not choose the car, and would instead utilize a tractor-trailer. The point is that normally, rather than the customer having a direct say in what vehicle transports their cargo, the courier or shipping service will take the customer's information, and make a more informed decision about how to send the cargo.
Whichever St. Louis Courier service you choose to transport your product or package, they will, in all likelihood, have a fleet of vehicles of all different types as a part of their Courier service. If you insist on having your package sent via a different vehicle than your St. Louis Courier service chooses, you may have to pay a stiff premium. For instance, if you are sending a Christmas card to your grandmother across the state, but insist that it go by itself via a reefer truck, you will probably pay much, much more for shipping than if you had let the courier company decide how to ship it.
The only time that a customer might legitimately want to specify how a package is shipped is if the package is medical or hazardous. And even in this case, simply by letting the St. Louis Courier service know about the properties of the shipment, they can and will probably make the correct decision about what type of vehicle to ship it in. In conclusion, any courier service company in St. Louis worth its salt will have a moderate to large fleet of vehicles of all different types.
