Do you know the difference between vehicle, LCL and special line transportation?

Less than carload transportation

When the weight or volume of a batch of goods is less than one truck, it can be transported in one truck with several or even hundreds of other batches of goods, which is called less than carload goods transportation. In order to facilitate loading and storage, each batch of LCL goods shall not exceed 300 pieces, and the minimum volume of each piece of LCL goods shall not be less than 0.02 cubic meters (except for one piece weighing more than 10 kg). If the goods are not enough for full vehicle transportation, they can be consigned as less than carload goods. The volume of a LCL cargo shall not be less than 0.02 cubic meters. However, when the weight of a piece is more than 10 kg, it is not limited by this minimum volume. Each batch of less than carload goods shall not exceed 300 pieces.

Special line transportation

The nomenclature of special lines is generally chaotic. For example, many northwest special lines actually only go to Xi'an, and then are transported by partners to Lanzhou, Xining, Yinchuan, Urumqi and other big cities. If the goods are to be delivered to the county, they need to continue to transit. The vast majority of traditional special lines only hire return vehicles to operate "one-way transportation", because it is difficult to organize the return freight sources. Some developed areas of the special line between the "back and forth transport", such lines mainly undertake large goods. However, if a single order of goods exceeds 300 kg and more than 2.5 cubic meters, the delivery fee is higher and there is a minimum charge.

Vehicle transportation

Vehicle dedicated line, mainly as a third-party logistics enterprise, provides door-to-door one-stop service according to customer's timeliness requirements. Because it is a large-scale enterprise logistics bulk general cargo transportation business, belongs to the contract logistics supplier, the quantity of goods is guaranteed, so it is often able to send the whole vehicle, and if the vehicle is not enough, it can carpool with the goods of other companies. When the volume of goods is very small or the route is unbalanced, it will be outsourced to the special line logistics companies in the society.