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However for long distance haulage companies have to look towards the specialist trucking firms that have the
capacity and range to operate nationally over long distances or even internationally. That is when a company will
require the services of a trucking haulage business to transport their goods. However, it isn’t quite that simple for to
be cost-effective for the company who is the sender of the goods they must plan their shipments so that they select
the most efficient and cost effective method of haulage. Typically there are two distinct methods, 1) Less than truck
load (LTL), 2) Full truck load (FTL). With LTL the benefits are that a company can ship small consignments of
goods to a variety of destinations. Whereas FTL, is better suited to a company that is arranging the shipment of a
large consignment to a single destination. For example a business operating an ecommerce site that covers the USA
and needs to ship many small consignments across the whole region would be better using a LTL service as it
would be far quicker and ultimately more cost effective. This is simply because when delivery time is a major factor
in customer satisfaction it would be better to use the LTL service than wait until they had a sufficient amount of
customer deliveries to a single area. On the other hand if the same business expands and builds distribution centers
across the nation then transporting goods between distribution centers would be more cost effective to use a FTL
service.