Combined Shipments · Canada & USA
Your smaller shipments combined with others heading the same way, moved as one full truck, then separated at the other end. You get close to truckload pricing without needing to fill a trailer yourself, coordinated as part of our freight management services.
Truckload Pricing
without a truckload of freight
2 Handovers
Instead of one at every terminal
Weekly
Scheduled consolidation runs
1 To 12
Pallets per shipment
Canada & USA
Consolidated lanes covered
The Basics, Simply
Consolidation means combining several smaller shipments into one full truckload. Your pallets are collected and brought to a consolidation point, coordinated through the same freight dispatching that schedules every pickup, where they are loaded onto a trailer alongside other freight travelling the same route. That full trailer then makes one direct journey. At the destination, the load is separated again and each shipment goes out for its final delivery. The reason this saves money is straightforward. Carriers charge much less per pallet for a full truck than for a partial one, so combining shipments lets several businesses share a truckload rate that none of them could reach alone.
The Trade-Off, Honestly
LTL pricing is built around freight class, weight and the handling your pallets need along the way, and it climbs quickly once you are shipping more than a few skids. Consolidation moves you onto truckload pricing, where you pay for the trailer and the trip instead, run through the same professional managed logistics approach we apply across every lane, and the saving is largest when your freight slots into a lane we already run each week. The cost of that saving is time. Consolidated freight leaves on a schedule rather than on demand, so your shipment waits for the next departure on its lane, usually adding a few days. The journey itself is often quicker once the truck leaves, because it travels direct rather than stopping at terminals, but the wait before departure is real. Tell us your deadline first and we will quote both ways, because saving money on freight that arrives late helps nobody.
Our services
Combining your own shipments, or combining yours with other people’s.
Multi-Vendor Consolidation
Freight from different suppliers combined into a single delivery to your warehouse or your customer’s distribution centre.
Shared Truckload & Pool Distribution
Your shipments combined with other businesses’ freight on scheduled lanes, then separated for final delivery.
Best Fit
Consolidation pays off fastest for shipments that look like these.
Several Suppliers Feeding One Site
Regular Weekly Or Monthly Volume
Six To Twelve Pallets Per Shipment
Delivery Dates With Some Flexibility
Fragile Or Damage-Prone Goods
Deliveries Into Retail Distribution Centres
The third and fourth points on that list matter more than most shippers expect. An LTL pallet does not travel straight to its destination. It is unloaded and reloaded at each terminal along the route, sometimes several times, and every one of those handovers is a chance for a forklift to catch a corner or for a pallet to be stacked under something heavier. Consolidated freight is loaded once and unloaded once. If you have had damage claims before, that reduction in handling is often the stronger reason to consolidate, backed by our professional freight insurance coverage and, where damaged goods do need to come back, our reliable reverse logistics service, with the lower rate as a bonus.
Being Straight With You
If a shipment has a fixed deadline and little slack, standard LTL or a dedicated truck is the safer answer.
Consolidation works best on routes that already run regularly. A one-off shipment on an uncommon lane may save little.
If you are shipping full truckloads, you are paying truckload rates already and consolidation adds nothing.
Consolidated dry freight and temperature-controlled goods do not travel together.
Below pallet size, a courier or parcel service is usually cheaper and faster.
Oversized, hazardous or specialised loads travel on their own equipment rather than in a shared trailer.
Pricing
Pallet count and how much of the trailer you take
How often we already run your route
Total weight of your shipment
What is needed after the load is separated
Send us a recent LTL invoice and your usual pallet count. We will quote the same freight consolidated so you can see the difference in writing.
Client Results
Logistics Coordinator
Furniture Importer, Mississauga
“Damage was our real problem, not price. Our product was getting handled at four terminals on every trip and we were writing off pallets most months. Loading once and unloading once has almost ended the claims.”
Warehouse Manager
Glassware Distributor, Brampton
FAQs
Combining several smaller shipments into one full truckload so they share a truckload rate, then separating them again at the destination for final delivery.
It depends on your pallet count, your lane and how often that lane runs. Rather than quote a percentage, we will price your actual freight both ways so you can compare real numbers.
Usually a few days, because your shipment waits for the scheduled departure. The journey itself is often quicker once the truck leaves, since it travels direct rather than through terminals.
On shared truckload services, yes. Your pallets stay together and are tracked separately, but they share a trailer with freight going the same way.
Consolidated freight is handled less than LTL, not more, because it is loaded once and unloaded once instead of being transferred at every terminal.
Separating the combined load back into individual shipments at the destination so each one can go out for final delivery.
Yes. Multi-vendor consolidation collects from different suppliers and delivers to you or your customer as one shipment, which also means fewer receiving appointments to book.
Yes, with customs paperwork handled as part of the booking.
Tell us the deadline and we will quote a service that meets it, even if that means recommending LTL or a dedicated truck instead of consolidation.
Send us your usual shipment size and lane. We will show you what the same freight costs consolidated.
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