Carrier Delivery Service
What types of Carriers are there?
Common Carrier: Transports goods between companies or people and has a license from a regulatory authority, allowing them to work for multiple shippers in one day.
Contract Carrier: Provides transport services for only one shipper long term. This can include a single person with their own minivan or a large-scale company with trucks, boats, trains, and planes.
What they ship:
Carriers primarily only ship larger packages or quantities of packages as a whole. This means a typical delivery weight of over 100 pounds to one ton. Carriers can also ship some types of hazardous materials to special locations requiring specific clearances, such as USCIS or immigration.
How do they ship it?
Shipping is done by having multiple stops for pick up for deliveries from multiple locations of individuals and residences and multiple stops for drop off for different businesses and individuals. Shipping is usually completed using large trucks and box trucks.
Cost
The cost of shipping with a carrier is the cheapest option as the delivery drivers are not required to have any training or certifications for their deliveries. They are also able to plan routes for all pickups and deliveries, saving on mileage and gas.
Speed/ efficiency
Having multiple stops for pick up and delivery hinders those who are on a time crunch for a package. Having to send a package through a warehouse, sorting, and going between multiple locations and trucks can also add to the time delay of a pickup and delivery of a package.
Safety
Multiple packages being placed on a truck and transferred between multiple locations and delivery vehicles increases the risk of the package being lost or damaged during transport.