Everyday trucks and combination truck and trailers transport goods and equipment from businesses and consumers all across the country. These products can range from multiple boxes and several different shipments in a single trailer to machinery and oversized construction equipment requiring special kinds of trailers requiring the correct support and load balancing needed for legal transportation along highways and interstates. What is over size or over dimensional freight? Over dimensional freight is basically freight that is to large to be divided up into smaller loads, the freight is longer, taller and/or wider than is normally allowed on the roads. The rules for over dimensional freight vary from state to state, for example a load may be considered oversized in some states and some states might not classify the load as such.   Freight Rate Central ships freight all across the country in a variety of forms, one of our latest shipments for…

Everyday across America semi trucks with flatbed trailers, dry van trailers, and any other of the numerous types freight and equipment transporting specialized trailers travel highways, interstates, city streets and rural roads to deliver millions of pounds of freight daily. These trucks keep the economy moving, they keep businesses with the supplies and equipment they need to operate, they also keep products from businesses moving as they sell locally and nationwide. While large multi-million dollars companies or businesses may move mass amounts of freight, enough to fill entire trailers or multiple trailers for full truckload services, some businesses may not have enough products to move or have delivered to justify the need for a full semi truck load. That’s where the partial truckload service or LTL freight comes into play. What is a partial truckload service? LTL or less than truckload service was designed to accommodate the smaller businesses using…