Boston to Salt Lake City Freight Shipping

LTL shipping from Boston to Salt Lake City involves a number of different considerations, but the process is made easy with Koho. While both Boston and to Salt Lake City have capable freight shipping and transportation networks built into their infrastructure to move multimodal LTL shipments with ease, Koho examines the local market and determines which carriers can offer the best LTL rate per pound for your cargo. Depending on the distance, weight, freight class, minimum charges, base rates, and mode of transport, anything from door-to-door trucking to intermodal shipments that transfer between air, sea, rail, or motorized freight can be utilized to achieve the most efficient and cost-effective route for your LTL shipment. Whether shipping to or from Boston or to Salt Lake City, Koho will explore not only the best mode of transport available that fits your shipping needs, but also the market capacities of each city’s respective region. The amount of LTL cargo arriving or departing Boston or to Salt Lake City can vary depending on how tight or loose the market capacity, as well as the modes of transport being utilized most frequently, all of which can affect the price and speed of a shipment. Koho’s market capacity meter indicates that Boston has a Loose Capacity and to Salt Lake City has a Loose Capacity. By examining available rates amongst Koho’s network of reliable carrier partners, we have found an average LTL rate per pound of $0.27 to ship from Boston to Salt Lake City, and $0.37 from Salt Lake City to Boston.

As one of the largest cities in the Great Basin area, Salt Lake City has created an extensive infrastructure of transportation and shipping in order to move people and cargo throughout the region and beyond. The Utah rail system provides interline switching routes for West coast, East coast, and Midwest shipments, and a trans-loading facility in Salt Lake City is the first major destination and interchange point for Union Pacific Railroad lines arriving from Seattle, Portland, Oakland, and Los Angeles. The Salt Lake City International Airport, eighteenth busiest in the world in terms of combined passenger and cargo volume, serves sixteen cargo carriers and handles over 550 million pounds of cargo annually. The city is also connected to east/west interstates I-80 and I-70, as well as north/south corridor I-15, providing the 2300+ motor freight carrier operations in Utah ample roads on which to truck goods into and out of the region. A vital lynchpin to Great Basin shipping, carriers in Salt Lake City have the versatility and competitive rates to effectively move any LTL shipment with ease.