Could you explain what you mean by 'direct service LTL'? ABF delivers direct to much of the US, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico. To us 'direct' means that it is picked up on an ABF truck by an ABF employee and delivered the same. It can be transferred from one truck to another several times during that process and a different truck and employee will make the delivery.Hi everyone! Does ABF provides direct service LTL? Is there other operators app to support that kind of LTLs transportation? I'm new in trucking. I appreciate any help a lot!
Your meaning combining multiple shipments for one customer on one trailer to be delivered at the same time. I would think that would be no problem for ABF.By "Direct Service" I mean the way of transporting LTL when a truckload carrier fills their backhaul with 4-6 LTL shipments. The shipment then moves as a full load to destination where it is delivered on the same truck. Let me know please if it hasn't become clear.
I appreciate your replies a lot! Do you think I would develop relationship as trucking company with the company you are talking about? May be they would make offers to 3rd party trucking business to ship such LTLs collections?I am also familiar with one company that does that same thing with refrigerated freight.
That company is long gone, and so is at least one that followed in its footsteps. There is a system of freight brokers that move some shipments like you are talking about but putting them together is not very easy or lucrative at the moment. There was a time when it was and maybe it will happen again in the future but for the time being I would not recommend it. Rates are too competitive right now to be able to make a decent living. The best route (in my opinion) with that type of operation would be with a flatbed, which would allow access for the shippers and receivers for loading and unloading of the freight from the sides or overhead crane.I appreciate your replies a lot! Do you think I would develop relationship as trucking company with the company you are talking about? May be they would make offers to 3rd party trucking business to ship such LTLs collections?
C.H. Robinson would be one. I can't think of any others at the moment. The joke on the street is that the C.H. stands for cheap and heavy. Their rates are so low that you will go more broke with every shipment you haul.Could you please recommend right brokers for that purpose?
I would say that it not a bad idea, just not one for right now. There were times when men made good money doing what you are talking about.Hmm... doesn't sound very well (((
I have had someone pass on to me that DayBreaker Express in Monroe NC does what you are asking about. You could look into them and see what you find.Hmm... doesn't sound very well (((
Road runner is in all them trucking mags that are free at the truck stops. They have refrigerated devision that runs from Ohio west and back.I know nothing about Road Runner but I don't think that they have much activity here. If Pitt Ohio does that it would be news to me. A. Duie Pyle has some knowledgeable people on here and they might get into some of that, they certainly have the capabilities.
I am also familiar with one company that does that same thing with refrigerated freight.
Averitt Express, Roadrunner, Go2 Logistics, Amerifreight,are just a few who do what you speak of, along with a few hundred 3rd party logistics operators around the country like, CH Robinson, Freightquote, Echo logistics, Global, Transac, and Werner to name a few, who use a lot of owner operators to pickup and deliver.Thank you so much. Meanwhile men have told me that Road Runner and Pitt Ohio do the same business. Have you heard anything about?