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Shipments typically weigh more than 15,000 pounds but often TL may be the most economical means of transportation for shipments weighing more than 10,000 lbs. TL is the exclusive use of a truck rather than sharing it in an LTL environment. The gross weight of a truck (tractor trailer 5 axle rig) in the U.S cannot exceed 80,000 in ordinary circumstances so a full truck is limited to the amount weight that a unit can legally carry by the difference between 80,000 pounds and the weight of the tractor trailer. Similarly a load is limited to the space available in the trailer -- nominally 48' or 53’ long and about 100 inches wide and 106 inches high. While express, parcel, and LTL shipments are always intermingled with other shipments on a single piece of equipment and are typically reloaded across multiple pieces of equipment during their transport, TL shipments usually travel as the only shipment on a trailer and TL shipments usually deliver on exactly the same trailer as they are picked up on.
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