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What Is a Liftgate? Truck Liftgate Types and Limits

Is DirectXpress the Same as Direct Express?

Dock-High vs. Box Truck: Matching Truck to Delivery

Dock-high means the truck or trailer floor sits at roughly loading-dock height, about four feet off the ground, so a forklift can cross straight from dock to cargo floor. Many box trucks are also built dock-high, and man

Standard Pallet Sizes: A Shipper's Reference

The North American standard pallet is 48 x 40 inches — the GMA footprint. Europe's counterpart is the 1200 x 800 mm EUR/EPAL. A few other sizes serve particular industries: 42 x 42 is associated with telecommunications a

Freight for Etsy and Marketplace Sellers

Quote the freight before you list the piece, not after it sells. A 240 lb dining table crossing three states is ordinary freight, but the total can change noticeably depending on whether either end is residential and whe

Store Rollout Freight That Doesn't Blow the Schedule

A rollout can miss its opening date on sequencing rather than trucking. Fixtures arrive before the floor is down, merchandise lands at a store with nowhere to store it, and a mall dock with four receiving hours a day abs

LTL vs. FTL: Which One Does Your Shipment Need?

There is no fixed pallet count where full truckload becomes cheaper, but there is a widely used rule of thumb: C.H. Robinson notes that many shippers treat about 12 pallets, or roughly 15,000 lb, as the point where a shi

Moving Heavy Machinery When You're Not a Factory

Whether a shop machine can travel as ordinary freight or needs a rigging crew depends on more than its weight: its packed dimensions, where its center of gravity sits, how stable it is on a skid, and how it has to be lif

Outsourcing Store Delivery for Furniture Retailers

Consider outsourcing store delivery when your weekly volume swings widely between your busiest and quietest weeks. When volume is steady, a truck and drivers you control can make sense. When it swings, the fixed commitme

A Pallet Is Coming to Your House: What to Expect

A pallet delivery to a house goes smoothly when you know three things before the truck arrives: exactly which delivery services were booked on your shipment, when the carrier will contact you to arrange delivery, and how