Rates applicable when the quantity of freight is less than the volume of truckload minimum weight.
A shipment weighing less than the weight required for the application of the truck load rate.
Freight from several shippers loaded onto an individual trailer. The shipment is based upon a separate rate than truckload rate. LTL is in contrast to TL, which is only one shipment from one shipper that is loaded on a tractor-trailer.
The rate charged for freight weighing less than the minimum weight for a truckload.
Refers to shipments of relatively small amounts of freight, typically between 100 and 10,000 pounds. It usually involves slower freight times than full truckload shipping.
Either a small shipment that does not fill the truck or a shipment of not enough weight to qualify for a truckload quantity (usually set at about 10,000 lbs.) rate discount, offered to a general commodity trucker.
Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) shipping is the transportation of relatively small freight. The alternatives to LTL carriers are parcel carriers or full truckload carriers. Parcel carriers usually handle small packages and freight that can be broken down in to units less than 150 US pounds.