Seattle to Los Angeles Freight Shipping

LTL shipping from Seattle to Los Angeles involves a number of different considerations, but the process is made easy with Koho. While both Seattle and Los Angeles 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 Seattle or Los Angeles, 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 Seattle or Los Angeles 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 Seattle has a Tight Capacity and Los Angeles has a Very Tight Capacity. By examining available rates amongst Koho’s network of reliable carrier partners, we have found an average LTL rate per pound of $0.09 to ship from Seattle to Los Angeles, and $0.30 from Los Angeles to Seattle.

The city of Los Angeles, California is first and foremost known as the city of entertainment, but the second largest city in America did not grow to its enormous size and capacity simply because of Hollywood. Los Angeles has one of the most dynamic economies in the world, boasting a large high-tech sector, cutting edge aerospace and advanced transportation industries, and one of the nation’s largest manufacturing bases and international trade hubs. To support this massive economic powerhouse, LA has relied on its formidable and dynamic infrastructure to provide the means to keep its goods flowing into and out of the city with ease. The Port of Los Angeles, located in San Pedro Bay, has been the number one container port in the U.S for the last twenty years, and serves as one of the leading gateways for international trade in the Western Hemisphere. LAX and Van Nuys airports move 2.3 million tons of cargo through the air each year, and a labyrinthine system of railroads and interstates give LA the capability to move goods in a dynamic and cost-effective way.