subject: Ltl Services With A Boston Delivery Service [print this page] If you are an individual or Business in the Boston area who wants to ship around the country or in-state, you will find yourself in need of a good Boston delivery service. When looking for a delivery service, there are a variety of different shipping companies and various options available. The type of Boston delivery service you will need depends upon the amount, size, frequency, and weight of the shipment you want to distribute. A common term associated with shipping and the courier industry is "LTL." This term stands for "less than truck load" and refers to any shipment that does not fill an entire truck. The opposite of this is an "FTL" or rather, a full truckload. If you are going to need FTL shipping, however, you will need to be shipping enough bulk items to justify the cost of an entire semi full of goods. If you have a small load, like most businesses do, you are going to want an LTL. For businesses that are on the small end of the FTL scale, you may even want to consider utilizing the services of a smaller Boston delivery service since they typically have services for carrying smaller parcels.
As a general rule of thumb, a LTL load typically ranges anywhere between 100 pounds to 10,000 pound per load. This may seem like a rather broad range but it accommodates anything that is either too large to fit in a typical courier vehicle or is too small to occupy a full truckload. For this reason, a Boston delivery service expects to be dealing with a wide range of shipments and deliveries. Typically, the LTL option is often used by smaller businesses that do not have the volume of goods to utilize the services of a FTL company.
One drawback of LTL however, is that it takes longer than a FTL shipment. What typically happens is that a courier will come to pick up your package at a set time that was scheduled beforehand by your Boston delivery service and their shipping company. Once your package has arrived at the terminal, it will be weighted and sorted where it will then be loaded onto a larger truck. At some point the truck will stop and have its cargo broken down into small vehicles where it will go to its final destination. The downside to this is sometimes your package will go through this step multiple times before it reaches its final destination.
