Whois & Analysis for saia.com

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.

Saia is an American trucking company, or a less than truckload (LTL) trucking company, that originated in Houma, Louisiana in 1924.

With original operation occurring in Louisiana and Texas for the first fifty years, expansion came after 1980 when coverage began reaching into more states within the South.

Further expansion happened through merges with other companies, which allowed Saia to provide service for thirty four states.

Saia ranks within the top ten of LTL carriers in the United States, yielding $1.3 billion in 2014.

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.

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea, but is extended in American English to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.

"Logistics", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also fashionably used in the same sense.