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Freight forwarders and hauliers choose truck transport when shipments must move door-to-door without intermediate transshipment and without being tied to fixed departure schedules.

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Freight forwarders and hauliers choose truck transport when shipments must move door-to-door without intermediate transshipment and without being tied to fixed departure schedules.

The two core service models are less-than-truckload (LTL), where multiple shippers share vehicle capacity, and full truckload (FTL), where a single consignor books the entire load space.

Road haulage carries the largest share of inland freight by volume within Europe and remains the dominant mode for last-mile delivery.

Last updated: 22 June 2026Published: 19 June 2025

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_freight_transport

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Freight forwarders and hauliers choose truck transport when shipments must move door-to-door without intermediate transshipment and without being tied to fixed departure schedules. The two core service models are less-than-truckload (LTL), where multiple shippers share vehicle capacity, and full truckload (FTL), where a single consignor books the entire load space. Road haulage carries the largest share of inland freight by volume within Europe and remains the dominant mode for last-mile delivery. Its main advantage over rail, sea, and air is direct accessibility to virtually any address on the road network. Planners must, however, account for weekend and public-holiday driving bans in various countries, congestion risk, and a higher carbon footprint compared with rail.

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