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Where we deliver, what it costs.
- Tier 1 (same-week LTL): MI, IN, IL, OH, WI. $185 – $385 per partial pallet.
- Tier 2 (week of LTL): KY, PA, NY, MN, IA, MO. $245 – $465 per partial pallet.
- Tier 3 (truckload only): the eastern US through TN, NC, VA, NJ, etc. $1,850 – $3,400 per full truck.
- West of Rockies: case by case. We'll quote — but we'll usually tell you to source closer.
~80 totes per 53' trailer
Single-stacked 275s. Stretches to 100 if pre-arranged at our yard. Below 12 tanks, LTL is almost always cheaper than dedicated.
The carbon-conscious move is consolidating your pickup with a neighbor.
If you're within 12 miles of a known IBC-using neighbor (we have a map), we can split a pickup truck across both facilities. Two calls, one truck, half the per-stop cost, half the per-stop emissions. We'll connect the parties if there isn't already a relationship.
Outbound scheduling
We dispatch outbound shipments Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Cutoff for next-dispatch loading is the prior business day at 2:00 PM EST.
What can be combined
Outbound product (reconditioned stock, accessories, custom builds) can be combined freely. Buy-back pickups and reconditioning send-ins are scheduled separately because the trailers go in different directions.
Insurance & liability
We carry $250k cargo insurance per truck. For high-value composite or stainless shipments above that, we'll arrange dedicated coverage at cost.
Why filled IBCs ship at one of the cheapest classes in the system.
National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) rates freight on a density scale from 50 (densest, cheapest) to 500 (lightest, most expensive). A filled 275-gallon IBC weighing 2,440 lb on a 48×40 pallet has density ~23.5 lb/cubic foot — class 55, the second-cheapest class.
What this means in dollar terms. A full 275 moving 350 miles within Tier 1 costs $185-$245 LTL. The same pallet at class 100 would cost ~$560. At class 200, ~$1,030. The class-55 rating is roughly 35% of the cost of class 100 for the same lane.
Empties are the inverse. An empty 275 at ~130 lb is ~1.2 lb/cubic foot — class 250 or 300, the expensive end of the system. That's why buy-back pickups are so much cheaper consolidated than standalone: a single empty on a half-empty trailer is unprofitable to move.
Truckload math. ~80 single-stacked filled 275s fit in a 53-foot trailer at ~2,440 lb each — but trailer cargo weight typically caps at 45,000 lb, so filled-trailer math limits you to ~18 tanks per load. We almost never ship full trailers of liquid — outbound is mostly empties + reconditioned reselling out, consolidated.
Why we move Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Three dispatch days lets us consolidate enough volume per truck to keep per-tank freight under our target while still hitting Tier 1 lead times. Five-day dispatch would split the volume thin.
If you only read one section.
- 01Filled IBC freight is class 55 — among the cheapest classes in the system.
- 02Empty IBC freight is class 250-300 — among the most expensive.
- 03Consolidation flips empty-freight economics. Our network is the moat.
- 04Dispatch is Mon, Wed, Fri. Cutoff is the prior business day at 2 PM EST.
- 05$11.85 per-tank average in 2024 — down from $19.10 in 2021 driven by routing improvements.