Whois & Analysis for rlcarriers.com

R+L Carriers is a privately owned American freight shipping company based in Wilmington, Ohio, which grew over the course of 40 years from one truck to a fleet of 21,000 tractors and trailers.

The company serves all 50 American states plus Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic.

Less than truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of relatively small freight.

The alternatives to LTL carriers are parcel carriers or full truckload carriers.

Parcel carriers usually handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than.

Full truckload carriers move freight that is loaded into a semi-trailer.

Semi trailers are typically between and require a substantial amount of freight to make such transportation economical.

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.

In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations.

The resources managed in logistics can include physical items such as food, materials, animals, equipment, and liquids; as well as abstract items, such as time and information.

The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of information flow, material handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security.

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by ship, boat, or aircraft, although the term is now often extended to cover all types of freight, including that carried by train, van, truck, or intermodal container.

The term cargo is also used in case of goods in the cold-chain, because the perishable inventory is always in transit towards a final end-use, even when it is held in cold storage or other similar climate-controlled facility.

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.

Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc.

They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities, towns and villages.