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Ecom Logistics

Freight services for inbound stock and distribution

LTL and FTL freight for replenishment and bulk distribution in Canada and the US. Plan the lane, receiving requirements and onward orders together, with shipment visibility through the client portal.

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A freight terminal with a tractor-trailer leaving the dock and a second trailer being loaded

Sharing a trailer, or filling one

The choice is usually decided by how much of a truck your freight takes up, and the crossover comes sooner than most shippers expect.

Not sure which your freight is? Compare LTL and FTL properly , or send us the lane and the load and we will tell you.

LTL

Less than truckload

LTL shares trailer capacity with other shippers. Compare it for smaller loads, allowing for the handling and receiving requirements along the route.

FTL

Full truckload

FTL reserves a trailer for your movement. It can suit larger loads or freight that benefits from less intermediate handling; compare the lane cost and dispatch timing with LTL.

What else the freight desk moves

Intermodal
Truck, rail and ocean combined on one movement, for long hauls where the schedule allows it.
Drayage
Short moves between ports, rail yards and distribution centres, so a container clears the terminal rather than sitting at it.
Ocean freight
Sea freight for volume that is not time-critical, with customs handled and the container visible while it moves.
Air freight
Air for what cannot wait, with customs clearance and door-to-door tracking on the shipment.
Customs brokerage
Clearance handled on cross-border and international moves, so the documentation is not yours to work out.
Trailer drop
A trailer left at your site and collected once you have loaded it, instead of a driver waiting on your dock.
Heavy haulage
Oversized and overweight loads, with the permits and the equipment arranged before the move.

What do we need to quote a lane?

Four things. Gather them and the answer comes back on your lane rather than as a range, and none of them takes more than a sentence.

  1. Where it starts and where it ends

    Origin and destination, at least to the city. A lane price is a price for that lane, the same pallet costs differently on a different pair.

  2. What is moving

    Pallet count, rough weight, and whether it stacks. Stackable freight and freight that cannot be topped take different amounts of a trailer for the same pallet count.

  3. How often it moves

    A one-off, a monthly run or a standing weekly lane. Repeating volume is priced differently from a spot move, and the crossover between LTL and FTL shifts with frequency.

  4. How much handling it tolerates

    LTL is loaded, cross-docked and re-loaded on the way through. If your freight does not want that, say so: it is usually the fact that decides the mode.

An isometric freight yard: a long white terminal with cobalt dock doors, trailers backed onto them, stacked containers on the apron and trucks moving between the doors and the gate. No racking anywhere.

Freight crosses the floor instead of stopping on it

A warehouse puts freight away and picks it again to get it out of the building. A cross-dock does not: inbound trailers come onto doors on one side, the freight is broken down and re-staged in lanes on the floor, and it goes back out on doors on the other side.

Cross-docking stages suitable inbound freight for its next outbound movement without a storage cycle. Agree the receiving and onward transport plan before the load arrives.

What you get

Cross-dock without a storage cycle

Inbound freight broken down and re-staged for onward movement, rather than put away and picked again to leave the building.

Appointments against real dock capacity

Receiving appointments are planned against dock capacity. Confirm the booking, unloading needs and detention terms before the trailer arrives.

One tracking spine

A freight leg reports into the same record as the parcel that follows it, so a delayed pallet and a late delivery are visibly the same event.

Priced against the lane

Quoted on the origin, destination and shape of your freight rather than against a list rate you then negotiate down from.

Fewer vendors between you and your customer

Most brands buy warehousing from one company, delivery from another and freight from a third, then spend the week managing the seams. Ecom is built as a single operation instead.

500+ Vehicles in the fleet

3
services on one network
2
countries served
1
operations team

Send us a lane.

Origin, destination, roughly what is moving and how often. We price against the lane rather than against a list rate, so a real example is worth more than a rate card.

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