Stage 1 · Details
Commodity, weight, pallet count, lanes.
Four freight services, all quoted to transit times the hours of service rules allow.
Standard dry van work for shippers moving packaged goods. We confirm the weight and pallet count before dispatch because an overweight trailer is the shipper's problem and ours, and we would rather find the discrepancy at the dock than at a scale house.
Commodity, weight, pallet count, lanes.
In writing, with cargo limit stated.
Pickup window confirmed.
Signed bill of lading returned.
Length, width, height and weight.
Whether it needs a permit or escort.
To standard, checked en route.
Unloaded and documented.
Flatbed work lives or dies on securement. Straps, chains and tarping are done to the cargo securement standards rather than to whatever gets the truck moving, and we will tell a shipper when a load as presented cannot be legally secured.
A shipper moving the same lane every week gets a better rate and the same driver, who learns the facility, the dock staff and the paperwork. Rates are agreed for the term rather than re-quoted against a spot market that moves every day.
Origin, destination, frequency.
Agreed for the term in writing.
Same driver where possible.
Adjusted as volume changes.
Distance against lawful driving hours.
Including when it cannot be done.
Direct, with tracking.
Reported, not guessed at.
Urgent freight is where the pressure to break hours is strongest. We calculate what is achievable within the hours of service rules, offer a team if the distance genuinely needs one, and decline when the requested time is not legally possible rather than accepting and hoping.
Send the commodity, weight and lanes for a written rate with a realistic transit time.