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Originally Posted by jayswin
Depends who you ship with, but in Canada you're mostly paying by cube (cubic feet)(how much room does each pallet occupy in a trailer) rather than weight. Especially by truckload (full trailer) shipments (3392 cube). You filled the truck, you pay for filling the truck, whether it's 10500lbs or 45000lbs.
So a 2500lb pallet of industrial equipment (107 cube - 48"x40"x96") costs the same as a 450lb pallet of kleenex (107 cube). I highly doubt that has anything to do with anything, in my experience in the industry. Trucking companies know not to lose money on light freight, these days.
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Right, but from the point of view of Kleenex that makes the freight costs more expensive. They ship 450lbs of kleenex and pay the same cost as a much heavier item going the same place.
Maybe the other way to say that is the value density is low. Ie that pallet of industrial equipment probably sells for a lot more than a pallet of Kleenex, but it costs the same to ship.
So shipping it across the continent makes it harder to make money.