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FTL

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In logistics & supply chain, FTL means: Short for full truckload: a road shipment that uses a whole truck or trailer for one customer's goods and goes directly from pickup to delivery.

In Turkish: komple tır, komple yük, FTL

How it is used

Priced per truck rather than per pallet or kilo. FTL is faster and safer for large loads because nothing is reloaded on the way. In Europe 'full load' or 'complete load' is also common; a standard trailer takes 33 Euro pallets.

Example sentences

  1. With 30 pallets, it makes sense to book an FTL instead of sending it groupage.

  2. FTL rates to Germany went up after the new road tolls were introduced.

Common collocations

  • FTL shipment
  • book an FTL
  • FTL rate
  • FTL carrier
  • LTLShort for less than truckload: a road shipment too small to fill a truck, so it travels with other customers' goods and is priced by space or weight.
  • road freightThe transport of goods by trucks and trailers on roads, used for domestic deliveries and for international routes over land.
  • palletA flat wooden or plastic platform on which goods are stacked so that they can be lifted by a forklift and moved, stored or shipped as one unit.
  • CMRThe standard consignment note for international road transport, named after the 1956 Geneva convention (CMR) that sets the rules and the carrier's liability.
  • carrierA company that physically transports goods, such as a trucking company, a shipping line, an airline or a rail operator.

More terms: Transport Modes

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