About LTL Freight Match
We move no freight, book nothing and hold no brokerage authority. What we publish is what decides an LTL price and an LTL invoice, written for the person who has to sign off on both. This page says where those lines are, and why they are drawn there.
Why this site exists
Requesting LTL freight is an unusually unforgiving process for anyone who does not do it every week. The vocabulary is specialised, the pricing is assembled from parts nobody explains, and the penalty for describing a shipment loosely arrives weeks later on an invoice.
The pages on this site exist to close that gap. They explain what a class is, why a pallet gets reweighed, what a liftgate does and does not do, and what a guarantee actually guarantees, in the order somebody needs to know it, before they ask for a price.
The form exists so that once the shipment is understood, starting takes four fields rather than four emails. Everything that actually decides the rate gets measured on the call.
What we are
A publisher, not a party to your shipment. Brokershold authority from the federal regulator and a surety bond, and they quote and book as a principal in the transaction. This site does none of that, which is why it can say plainly which accessorial a broker has left out of a quote. How to check anyone’s authority in the public register takes two minutes and is set out on this site. How freight matching platforms differ from both is set out separately.
Three parties get confused constantly, and the confusion is expensive. The carrier owns the truck and the tariff, and physical execution and cargo liability rest with it. The broker arranges the move and is a principal in the transaction. The shipper declares the class, the dimensions and the accessorials, and that declaration is what the invoice is later checked against. Knowing which of the three owes you what is most of what goes wrong in this market. Anyone who blurs that line is describing a business that does not exist.
How the content is written
Four rules, applied to every page.
- No published rates. Class, density, lane, accessorials and fuel move weekly, and a figure printed here would be stale within a month and wrong for most readers today.
- No invented facts. No made-up statistics, no fabricated testimonials, no counters, no fake urgency and no claimed partnerships.
- Anything regulatory is flagged. Where a page touches classification rules, carrier liability or licensing, it is marked for verification rather than presented as settled.
- Usefulness before conversion. Several pages here explain how to spend less with us: terminal pickup instead of a liftgate, consolidating, shipping dock to dock, or booking direct with a carrier when that is the better answer. That is deliberate.
How this is paid for
Providers pay to receive qualified shipment requests. Shippers pay nothing, and the rate you are quoted comes from the provider.
Saying that plainly is the point. A site funded this way has an incentive to push everyone toward a form, and the only honest countermeasure is to write pages that are worth reading on their own.
Who publishes it
The publisher, the registered entity and the hosting details are set out on the legal notice. How data is handled is on the privacy policy.
Describe a shipment
Or read the guides first. Both are fine, and the second usually makes the first go better.
LTL Freight Match is an independent reference on less-than-truckload shipping for the people who buy it. It moves no freight, holds no brokerage authority and books nothing. It explains what decides a class, which accessorials turn a quote into a different invoice, and how to put competing quotes on the same footing.