In your negotiation of rate you will need to do your homework and know what is expected or included in their terms as well. To get started you need to know your operating cost to better evaluate what you need to charge for any days of detention or accessorial charges while waiting on your truckload. However, if you are not using a broker, your detention rate may be good information to know. If this is the case, you will not need to figure out your detention rate. If you are working through a broker, detention rates have typically already been negotiated with their shippers and receivers. The detention is used to offset the cost of a truck being detained at a shipper or receiver. Any time spent outside of the allotted two hours is detention. Most shippers and receivers have a 2-hour window to load/unload a truck. Outside of parking, detention is one of the biggest complaints within the trucking industry. We also include the freight-ready date that you provide.A trucking companyвЂ™s detention rate is not a random number picked from a hat. When you use this service, we provide an estimated shipping fee and pickup date based on your shipment information, such as number of pallets, weight, and freight class. More than 20 carriers participate in the partnered LTL and FTL service. We will assign a carrier and create a bill of lading, which you will receive via email and can access in Seller Central. Carriers will not have the manpower to move your pallets.

Palletize the shipment and be able to move the pallets to the truck when it arrives.

Schedule a pickup time with the carrier.

Contact the carrier and request a truck with a lift gate.

After creating a shipment, select Less than truckload (LTL) under Shipping method and Amazon Partnered Carrier under Shipping carrier.

To use the lift-gate service, do the following: When contacting your partnered carrier, make sure to request a lift gate for pickup. Note: All partnered LTL carriers support lift gates. To qualify for the service, your shipment must be under 12 pallets and less than 20,000 lb. If you donвЂ™t have a dock door or a forklift, you can still use the Amazon partnered LTL service by requesting lift-gate service from the carrier. Recurring issues with packaging information may disable your ability to reject freight-class estimates.ДЇor more information, go to Amazon Partnered Carrier freight class.

Shipments with rejected freight-class estimates are subject to further review. You will be asked to accept Amazon's estimated freight class. If youвЂ™re unsure of your shipmentвЂ™s freight class, choose the Estimate my freight class option during the Shipping charges step in the Send/replenish inventory workflow.

If the freight class of your shipment appears to be too low, an alert will show an estimated freight class. This information is used for your freight class estimate. Make sure to provide accurate packaging information when creating a shipment. If you provide incorrect freight classes for your shipments, we may disable your ability to enter freight class and, instead, estimate your freight class for you.ДЇreight class is a standardized classification system that determines the billable weight and risk of a shipment.

Note: If youвЂ™re unsure of your shipment's freight class, choose the default Estimate my freight class option.

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