Best Practice to Ship Drums - Sponsored Whitepaper

To get the best of both worlds, safety and economy, I usually recommend to my customers to load full loads on the floor and LTL on pallets. Full loads are unlikely to be cross docked, and without pallets you can take advantage of filling the truck to maximum weight with product. When shipping LTL, your product is protected better and easier to cross dock. When shipping LTL the weight of a few extra pallets is not significant in pricing....