The trunk leg between hubs — the overnight truck or air segment between origin and destination sorting centres.
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Pakka Parcel Editorial
October 22, 2026 · 4 min read
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Linehaul: The trunk leg between hubs — the overnight truck or air segment between origin and destination sorting centres.
Why you care: Linehaul is where zone and distance actually live.
In practice: Delhi→Chennai linehaul runs overnight by air or ~40 hours by road
Every Indian courier, inside your store. An order comes in,
we quote every connected carrier on the order page — you book the best rate, hyperlocal or national.
Linehaul — The trunk leg between hubs — the overnight truck or air segment between origin and destination sorting centres.
Why it matters to your store
Linehaul is where zone and distance actually live. Sellers can't do much about linehaul speed except choose air vs surface — the lever is choosing the carrier whose linehaul serves your lane best.
This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.
Delhi→Chennai linehaul runs overnight by air or ~40 hours by road — that's the part of the 2-day vs 4-day difference.
The bottom line
Shipping jargon is really just the billing manual in disguise — every term on this list maps to a line
on an invoice or a lever on your margins. Pakka Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it:
statuses normalise, bills reconcile, and quotes already include the surcharges.
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