FTL
Full Truck Load
Dedicated vehicle capacity for larger commercial shipments.
Explore serviceCurrent service focus
Road freight, structured around your cargo.
LogisticID coordinates European road freight through suitable third-party carriers, with a structured request, one commercial offer and one point of contact.
Service formats
Four road freight services.
Choose the transport format that best matches the volume, timing and handling profile of the shipment.
LTL
Less Than Truck Load
Partial-load transport when a full vehicle is not required.
Explore serviceExpress
Express Freight
Road transport coordination for time-sensitive commercial cargo.
Explore servicePallets
Pallet Freight
Structured transport requests for smaller palletised shipments.
Explore serviceGroupage — consolidated movement through a scheduled hub network — is being prepared as a service in its own right and is not arranged today. How groupage differs from a part load.
Choosing between them
Which road service fits the shipment?
The four services above and the one being prepared, on the dimensions that actually separate them: who else is on the vehicle, how often the goods are handled, and what the carrier is selling.
| Service | Vehicle | Handling | Priced against | Best when | Look elsewhere when |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Truck Load | Exclusive — the whole vehicle carries one consignment | Loaded once, unloaded once | The vehicle and the journey it makes | The consignment fills a vehicle, the goods cannot be handled in transit, or the collection and delivery windows are fixed | The consignment leaves most of the deck empty and the dates are flexible |
| Less Than Truck Load | Shared — several consignments travel together | May be handled at a depot between collection and delivery | The floor space the consignment occupies across the deck | The consignment is too large to send as pallets and too small to justify a vehicle | The goods cannot be handled in transit, or the delivery date cannot move |
| Pallet Freight | Shared — consignments travel together, prepared on pallets | Handled at the depots the pallets pass through | The pallet, and its footprint and height | Goods are already palletised, stackable where possible, and both ends can handle a pallet | Goods are unpalletised, oversized, or need to stay on one vehicle throughout |
| Express Freight | Usually exclusive, and matched to the deadline rather than the size | Loaded once, unloaded once, kept moving | The vehicle, the urgency and the route it has to run | The date is the binding constraint and the cost of being late exceeds the cost of the transport | The timing has any slack at all — this is the expensive option |
| GroupagePlanned — not offered yet | Shared — consolidated through a scheduled hub network | Consolidated and deconsolidated at hubs along the route | The consolidated space the consignment occupies | A regular flow of smaller consignments moves on a scheduled network | The shipment is urgent or cannot be handled repeatedly |
These are the usual cases, not rules. A consignment that sits between two of them is normal, and which arrangement actually works is often decided by the route and by what capacity is moving on it that week — which is what a forwarder is for. Describe the shipment and it will be reviewed against all of them.
What European road freight actually is
Road freight moves goods between two addresses on a vehicle, and almost everything that varies about it comes from three questions: how much of the vehicle the consignment needs, how much handling the goods can take, and how fixed the date is. The four services above are answers to different combinations of those three, which is why the useful conversation with a forwarder starts with the cargo rather than with a service name.
Inside the European Union customs territory, goods in free circulation cross national frontiers without an import or export declaration, which removes the largest single source of delay from most of these movements. It does not remove every obligation: excise goods, waste and scrap, dangerous goods and several product categories carry their own requirements that are unrelated to customs and are not waived by the absence of a border.
What a price actually responds to
A part load is priced against the length of deck it occupies across the vehicle’s full width, so stackability changes the cost more than weight usually does. Dense cargo reverses that: metals, stone, liquids and machinery reach the legal weight limit with deck still empty, and the carrier cannot sell the remaining space to anybody.
Distance is the obvious variable and rarely the decisive one. Corridor conditions, whether a return load is realistic, whether the delivery point operates a booking system, and whether the route crosses a constrained crossing all move a price further than a hundred kilometres does. This is also why no rate, transit time or capacity figure appears anywhere on this site: none of them is stable enough to publish honestly.
Who performs the transport
LogisticID is a freight forwarder. It arranges movements and does not perform them: it owns no vehicles, employs no drivers and operates no terminal. Road freight is what it arranges today; the services overview sets out which other modes are being prepared and which cannot yet be requested. Independent carriers carry the goods under their own operating authority, and the forwarder’s work is establishing what a movement actually needs, matching it to capacity that fits, and giving the shipper one commercial offer and one point of contact.
European markets
Road freight across the European Union.
Goods in free circulation move between European Union Member States without an import or export declaration, so a road movement inside the Union needs only the services LogisticID arranges.
A road freight request is accepted for any of the 27 Member States of the European Union. That is a statement about which movements can be arranged with the services LogisticID has, not a list of places it has an office — there are none, and what this business is explains why that is the normal shape of a freight forwarder.
Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are reachable by road and sit outside that customs territory, so a movement to or from them needs customs formalities. Customs support is being prepared and is not arranged today, which means those formalities have to be arranged separately — and it is the reason those markets are described here rather than sold.
Explore markets
Written up in detail.
Markets with a page of their own. Each covers how freight reaches that market, what shapes a quote there, and the corridors that serve it — these are the ones there was something specific to say about, not the limit of where freight is arranged.
Corridors
Routes covered in detail.
Corridors with a page of their own. Any other European route can be described in a request — these are the ones there was something specific to say about.
- Austria ↔ Czech Republic
- Austria ↔ Germany
- Belgium ↔ Germany
- Belgium ↔ Netherlands
- Czech Republic ↔ France
- Czech Republic ↔ Germany
- Czech Republic ↔ Hungary
- Czech Republic ↔ Italy
- Czech Republic ↔ Netherlands
- Czech Republic ↔ Poland
- Czech Republic ↔ Slovakia
- France ↔ Italy
- Germany ↔ France
- Germany ↔ Italy
- Germany ↔ Netherlands
- Germany ↔ Poland
- Hungary ↔ Romania
- Netherlands ↔ Poland
- Spain ↔ France
What to prepare
Better input supports clearer coordination.
Route and dates
Precise collection and delivery locations, loading readiness and requested delivery date.
Cargo and equipment
Dimensions, weight, pallet count, loading metres and any equipment preference.
Handling constraints
Tail-lift and site-access requirements, and any ADR or temperature-control requirement — stating these lets the requirement be reviewed, and neither is a service arranged today.
Coordination model
Shipper to carrier, with LogisticID in the middle.
- 01
Shipper
Provides the commercial shipment requirement.
- 02
LogisticID
Structures and coordinates the transport brief.
- 03
Suitable carrier
Third-party capacity is assessed for the requirement.
- 04
Delivery
The agreed road transport is coordinated to destination.
Which side of the movement are you on?
A business with goods to move can send a requirement, or read what happens to a request and who is answerable for what before doing so. LogisticID arranges the transport; independent providers perform it, and the two carry different responsibilities.
A haulier or transport company with capacity on these lanes wants how LogisticID works with transport providers, and what is asked before working together.
European road freight