Guide: How to Find Free Transport And Load On The Internet

Beginning logisticians and forwarders usually ask themselves how to quickly find information on cargo and transport. Some people search for ads on the sites of logistics companies and try to establish partnership contacts. Others open a search engine and look for free transportation and cargo all over the Internet. Still others use the services of virtual transport exchanges. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of all three options for finding information.

In the first case, if the specialist is a working base of partner companies, he enjoys the following advantages:

1. Free use of the database,

2. The volume of the base depends only on how many contacts the specialist can establish,

3. The quality of the selected database is quite high, since all contacts are worked out by the specialist himself.

   At the same time, the specialist remains limited in the search for free goods and transport, since his base is finite and replenished only with his hands (that is, with a large time expenditure). An additional problem may be ignorance or poor knowledge of foreign languages spoken by potential partners in the transportation of goods.

   In the event that the logistician searches for cargo or transport simply through search engines, he can face the problem of bad faith of the partner companies found. The need to urgently find passing cars or goods pushes to a quick conclusion of agreements with unverified companies, which can be dangerous (delivery times may be disrupted or the cargo lost at all). At the same time, there is a possibility not to find the information for the desired delivery dates, since not all transport companies place ads on their websites.
   This way of finding information is not costly, since the specialist does the work with his own hands, but is risky enough.

   The third option is to use the resources of virtual transport exchanges. Such exchanges are created specifically for logistics, transport and manufacturing companies, which require the rapid organization of combined cargo in different directions.

   Perhaps the only disadvantage of transport exchanges is the chargeability of services. Some exchanges charge a subscription fee (monthly), others - a one-time registration fee. This ends the shortcomings.

   Among the positive moments of working with the stock exchange, there are a large number of participating companies, and accordingly an incomparably greater number of announcements on free transport and cargo, updated daily. A specialist who is looking for free transportation can quickly and without extra effort find the right type of machine in the right direction for the right dates. The riskiness of such transactions is close to zero, as all members of the exchange are carefully checked by the administration.

   At its core, the virtual exchange of transport and cargo is a market place, which saves all participants in freight transportation a lot of time, effort and money.

   Which of the following ways to use is the individual choice of each transport specialist. However, most freight experts give their preference to transport exchanges as the most optimal way to quickly find suitable partners.