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First-Time Shipper A Basic Guide to Shipping How Your Shipment Moves The Roadway Express freight path is a highly engineered system refined for speed and efficiency, safely delivering more than 2.8 billion pounds of freight per year. Most of Roadway’s freight falls into the regular LTL category (less-than-truckload), since the freight we ship won't fill a whole trailer. Rather, it is combined with other freight moving in the same direction. This LTL shipping method provides a very efficient way for any size businesses to ship their freight.  As an example, let’s look at this boy’s new pencil. We'll follow its progress through the Roadway Freight Path and track how this system works from start to finish.
 The Roadway Freight Path begins when a store in New Orleans places an order via the internet with a manufacturer more than 1,300 miles away.
 The General Pencil Company in Jersey City, New Jersey Receives the order and prepares the freight for shipment.
 An employee of the pencil company calls his local Roadway service center and schedules a pickup through his service representative. He tells the representative how much freight is to be shipped, where it is going and when it will be ready.
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