{"id":67262,"date":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/blog\/are-freight-carrier-penalties-burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:33:21","slug":"are-freight-carrier-penalties-burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/are-freight-carrier-penalties-burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Freight Carrier Penalties Burning A Hole In Your Pocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chances are, your less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carriers will weigh the majority of loads you ship.<\/p>\n
This is done for a good reason \u2013 money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reweigh penalties account for $1 billion, or 3 percent of the revenue for the $32 billion LTL freight industry.\u00a0When a mismatch in weight is discovered, carriers often charge shippers the weight difference and reweigh charges \u2013 from $15 to $25.<\/p>\n
Companies that don\u2019t own or use scales \u2013 platform or those built into stretch wrappers \u2013 to weigh their loads may overestimate or underestimate weight. Estimating weight leads to a load of trouble.<\/p>\n