Can you explain the difference between an LTL and a Dedicated driver please?

I delivered a small box to a Yankee Candle store last week. I told the lady that I was pretending to be UPS.

Then the next day they got their full shipment, a full skid to be inside delivered

 

Come on guys, ltl stands gor less than truckload. It is for business that rather pay for a couple skid spacesthan the whole trailer (truckload). Most common ltl carriers are fedex freight, conway, yrc, ups freight, old dominion, estes, etc..

 

[h=2]ded·i·cat·ed[/h] adjective : having very strong support for or loyalty to a person, group, cause, etc.
: used only for one particular purpose

I drive dedicated for one customer. I am not LTL. If I pick up a load going back to my Distribution Center and it is for 1 gallon of paint. That is what will be in the trailer, 1 gallon of paint. An LTL driver would go somewhere else until the truck was full or dispatch tells him to come back to the yard.

 

Those of us in the LTL industry also make much better pay than a dedicated driver will from on of the major carriers. City drivers are home every night and work M-F. Line haul can be home every night if they are a hub driver, extra board drivers like my self usually stay out for 5 days and come home. I sleep in a motel for my 10hr break and eat well. Here in Fresno, CA city drivers start at $21.20hr line .495mi plus $10hr for non driving and $4.50 to make/break a set. Very easy to make $1200-1400 a week.

 

I drive for the post office.

Earlier someone made a sarcastic remark that LTL stood for 'Little Tiny Loads'....... Well, in retrospect that's correct. But here's the difference between LTL and dedicated:

Dedicated means that you're a 3rd party carrier hauling freight for one particular customer.

With LTL, you have customers paying the carrier to send a few items at a time. Very rarely will one package be going to the same place as another package in your trailer.

 

That gave me a good laugh... LOL