Know your freight and get started using the new classification codes. That was the advice given to less-than-truckload shippers on a panel discussion about upcoming changes to the way their freight will be categorized.
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association, a nonprofit trade group that publishes LTL commodity classifications, is simplifying a 90-year-old rating system. The goal is to get the industry to adopt a density-based approach for categorizing freight, which will allow carriers...