Explaination of what LTL is ?

Does it look "close" to you? Seems to, IIRC from your last one. Man, that's really neat. Too bad I don't have FaceBook. I LOVE it~!

 

You ask a good question, because a lot of people have that confused. They think LTL = P&D (pick up and delivery), which is what you are describing (multi-stop "city" driving often involving pallet jacks and lift gates to make the deliveries).

LTL is actually just the segment of the trucking industry itself where small shipments of freight are consolidated in order to ride together in the same trailer. It involves city drivers (P&D), dock work, and road drivers (known as linehaul).

Depending on the company, both city drivers and road drivers might have to do dock work. I am fortunate that I am a linehaul driver at a company where we don't pull doubles and we don't have required dock work. It is about the cushiest job ever for a ridiculous amount of money. The only drawback is that it is done at night. Some people can't handle that.

 

Learned something new today. LTL means less than a load.

 

Yep. Sometimes I hear Less Than Load, sometimes people say Less-than TruckLoad.

 

Yes. Its basically an edit of a photo I have.

 

Excellent point. I always view it as a former P&D driver, but yes, it definitely takes the efforts of all 3.
Here in the northwest, some of the newbie P&D drivers didn't understand at first why the line drivers got paid so well for sitting on their butts. We always explained to them that, yes, in decent weather the job was fairly easy (time constraints aside), but the line drivers definitely earned their pay in the wintertime, especially if they were going over the passes.

 

I worked for one LTL that was pretty much from the coast to Denver. BUT, they had multiple stops once you got to Denver. There are just all kinds of different jobs out there.

 

Didn't Jevic used to run that way?

 

I've no idea.