There’s no comparison but bosses will be bosses.
If you are in the US, and have access to Amazon partnered LTL, there’s no better option.
Your stuff could get stranded for weeks or months using your own carrier and it will cost you 75% more.
For example - we shipped a 1000lb, 6 foot tall pallet with 5500 units on it last week, using Amazon freight for $96. It would have been $400 if we used our own carrier.
If you use your own carrier, that carrier needs to make an appointment to get in, and that’s not easy. Using partnered, you don’t need to do a thing other than being at the pickup point when Amazon or their partners show up.
There’s really nothing to look into here but I know you have to because you are working for someone that doesn’t know all these things.
Remember - Amazon freight and amazon partners get preferential treatment at FBA. If you’re lucky enough to get Amazon Freight (their trailers), they roll right up to the dock to get dropped off.
I know there are people that talk stuff (prefer to use another word) about Amazon freight. We’ve used them probably 100X. Never ever an issue, other than 1 time when they said our dock was too small which wasn’t true. They came back the next day after that (likely inexperienced driver) felt it was too small to back into.
I think both bays were probably occupied at the time and the driver didn’t want to wait 10 mins…
Freights - “Unable to Deliver” excuse. 