How to manage increasing LTL rules tariffs and accessorials

This white paper analyzes the growing impact of accessorial charges in LTL shipping, which now account for nearly 9% of shippers' costs, and offers strategies for managing these rising expenses.

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For decades, LTL carriers have maintained rules tariffs filled with extra shipping charges. But once upon a time, those documents were just one or two pages long. Now, they’re at least 70. And the accessorial charges within them are accounting for more and more of shippers’ total spend – averaging nearly 9% in 2023.

In this white paper, AFS Logistics uses its original analysis of $1.2 billion in LTL spend to provide a quantitative view of this trend and examines:

• The evolution of rules tariffs and accessorials
• The impacts of resulting charges
• How shippers can manage rising costs

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