Truckload

Full Truckload (FTL) Shipping

Full truckload (FTL) shipping dedicates an entire trailer to your freight for direct, point-to-point delivery across Canada and the US — fewer touches, faster transit, and lower damage risk on time-sensitive lanes.

Whole trailer

Your freight, the entire trailer — no co-loading, no terminals.

Direct

Point to point with no transloading between origin and destination.

Faster

Straight-through transit with realistic, committed delivery windows.

When full truckload is the right choice

Full truckload makes sense when you have enough freight to fill (or nearly fill) a trailer, when your product is fragile or high-value and you want to minimize handling, or when transit time matters and you can’t afford terminal delays. Because the trailer is dedicated to you, your freight is loaded once at origin and unloaded once at destination — nothing in between.

  • Shipments of roughly 10+ pallets, or any load that fills a 53′ trailer
  • Fragile, high-value, or sensitive freight that should not be handled repeatedly
  • Time-critical lanes where terminal sorting would add days
  • Consistent, recurring volume that benefits from dedicated equipment

FTL vs LTL: the short version

Less-than-truckload (LTL) shares trailer space among multiple shippers and routes freight through terminals — economical for small shipments, but with more handling and variable transit. Full truckload keeps your freight on one trailer the whole way. As a rule of thumb, once you’re past roughly six to ten pallets, FTL is often faster, safer, and competitive on cost. We’ll tell you honestly which fits your shipment. Read our deeper FTL vs LTL guide.

Direct, monitored transit

Every FTL move is tracked with check calls and status updates at each milestone. On cross-border lanes we prepare PARS/PAPS and ACE/ACI documentation in advance so the truck clears the border and keeps rolling. If anything changes en route, you hear it from us first.

Equipment and capacity

Our core FTL equipment is the 53′ dry van. When your volume exceeds our own trucks, our licensed brokerage sources vetted, insured partner capacity — so you can scale up for a peak season or a one-off surge without changing partners. Learn more about dedicated freight for recurring lanes.

Questions

Full Truckload — your questions answered

What counts as a full truckload?

Any shipment that fills, or effectively reserves, an entire trailer — typically around 10+ pallets or 15,000+ lbs, though high-volume or high-value freight is often shipped FTL at lower weights to avoid handling. The defining feature is that the trailer is dedicated to one shipment.

Is full truckload faster than LTL?

Usually yes. FTL travels directly from origin to destination with no terminal sorting, while LTL freight may pass through multiple hubs. For time-sensitive freight, FTL’s direct routing typically delivers a more predictable, faster transit.

Can you handle full truckload across the Canada–US border?

Yes. Cross-border FTL is a core lane for us. We coordinate PARS/PAPS, ACE/ACI eManifest, and customs-broker hand-offs so the loaded trailer clears quickly and continues to its destination.

Do you provide the trailer and driver, or broker it out?

Both options are available. We run our own dedicated dry van equipment, and as a licensed broker (MC# 1806006) we can also place your truckload with a vetted partner carrier when that’s the better fit for the lane or timing.

Let’s move it

Have a load that needs to land on time?

Tell us your lane, equipment, and pickup window. You’ll get a straight answer and a real rate — fast.