12/12/2022
What does it mean to have a food-grade trailer or truck?
Food-grade trailers are designed and maintained to maintain product integrity, quality, and safety….
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12/12/2022
What are Colonial Cartage’s temperature-controlled shipping temperatures?
Colonial Cartage offers temperature-controlled shipping for sensitive, food-grade, or CPG products requiring transport…
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What is freight consolidation, and how does it work?
Freight consolidation commingles multiple LTL shipments from various shippers into a single truckload…
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What is breakbulk service?
A breakbulk service is a distribution model where individual customer orders are picked…
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What do you mean by appointing, load-planning and sequencing?
Colonial Cartage’s transportation management team handles the appointing, load-planning, dispatching, routing, and delivery…
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What is cross-docking?
Cross-docking is the transfer of products from a truck or rail car to…
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When is it best to use Colonial Cartage’s cross-docking services?
Colonial Cartage’s cross-docking services are ideal for less-than-truckload (LTL) shippers wanting to reduce…
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What is the difference between LTL and TL shipping?
LTL refers to orders of less-than-truckload quantity typically co-mingled with other similar-sized shipments…
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What LTL and TL transportation services does Colonial Cartage offer?
Colonial Cartage offers food-grade, dry, and temperature-controlled, less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload (TL) distribution…
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What are your LTL plant support services?
Colonial Cartage’s plant support services include shipping raw materials, work-in-process, and packaging to…
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