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Shipping costs are not merely a function of weight. Instead, freight carriers use a volume-based or dimensional pricing system. What exactly does this mean to the drum industry? Well, given a fixed weight, as the amount of cargo space taken up increases, so does the shipping cost per pound. The result is a disproportionately higher shipping cost for all drum sizes 30 gallons and up, due to their large volume and relatively light weight. This is also why common carriers have come up with a general freight classing system for most products. By contacting your freight carrier and describing the goods to be shipped, one can easily obtain the most appropriate freight classification code. In the future, though, shippers hope to implement new high-tech, low-cost scanners so that we will be able to calculate accurate shipping classes and, in turn, reduce shipping costs.