Freight notes
Straight answers about moving freight
Border paperwork, pricing, transit times and the things that actually delay a load. Written by the people who dispatch it, not by a marketing agency.
Latest posts
· 2 min read
PARS vs PAPS: which one your load needs
Two acronyms cause more border delays than any other part of cross-border freight. They are simpler than they look.
Read Cross-border· 1 min read
Do I need a customs broker to ship to the US?
This is the single most common question we get from first-time cross-border shippers, and the answer is not complicated.
Read Pricing· 2 min read
How pallet size changes what your freight costs
Two shipments of identical weight can cost very different amounts. The difference is almost always the space they take up.
ReadWhat we write about
Most freight advice online is written by people who have never filed an entry or watched a load sit at the Pacific Highway crossing. We write the opposite kind: specific answers to the questions our dispatchers get asked every week.
That means border paperwork explained properly, how LTL pricing is actually calculated, what changes a transit time, and the avoidable mistakes that turn a next-morning delivery into a three-day one.
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