Navigating the Complexity of Evolving Accessorial Charges

How to mitigate increasingly costly LTL rules tariffs and accessorials

For decades, LTL carriers have maintained rules tariffs filled with extra shipping charges. While at one time those documents were typically one or two pages long, today they can be more than 200 pages. And the accessorial charges within them account for an increasing amount of a shipper’s total spend—averaging nearly 9% in 2023.

In this whitepaper, AFS Logistics uses its original analysis of $1.2 billion in LTL spend to provide a quantitative view of this trend. This free guide examines:

•  The evolution of rules tariffs and accessorials
•  The impacts of resulting charges
•  How shippers can manage rising costs