Los Angeles to Chicago Freight Shipping

LTL shipping from Los Angeles to Chicago involves a number of different considerations, but the process is made easy with Koho. While both Los Angeles and Chicago 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 Los Angeles or Chicago, 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 Los Angeles or Chicago 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 Los Angeles has a Very Tight Capacity and Chicago has a Moderate Capacity. By examining available rates amongst Koho’s network of reliable carrier partners, we have found an average LTL rate per pound of $0.30 to ship from Los Angeles to Chicago, and $0.21 from Chicago to Los Angeles.

“The Windy City”, situated on the shores of Lake Michigan, is one of the largest and most diverse cities in the United States and an international hub of finance, commerce, industry, technology, and transportation. The region has the largest number of federal highways and is widely recognized as the nation’s railroad hub, boasting the highest number of passenger and freight trains traveling through the city each year. Once a powerful food processor and manufacturer of steel, Chicago’s economy has shifted and diversified to keep up with the times and is now spread between a variety of other industries, including finance, electronics, logistics, and publishing. Though the economy has changed over the years, Chicago’s status as a major transportation and shipping hub has remained. A major port, two airports, and a vast connection of rail lines and highways have kept the city on the forefront of cargo moving capabilities, and Chicago continues to be the premier Midwestern connection for the rest of the country.