Shippers get an instant estimate. The forwarder gets a complete quote request.
An EU road-freight forwarder that works without its own trucks needed a site that sells part loads and full loads. We built it: an instant estimate calculator that places the load on a to-scale 13.6 m trailer deck, quote requests that arrive as spreadsheets, and a site in three languages. It is built and launching.
Built · launching
- xlsxquote requests arrive as spreadsheets, ready to price
- 3load sizes sold: small part loads, larger part loads, full trucks
- 13.6 mtrailer deck drawn to scale, so the shipper sees the space a load takes
- 1 sheetholds every rate, so the team changes prices without a developer
A forwarder that sells space on trucks it doesn’t own
The client is an asset-light road-freight forwarder in the EU. It moves less-than-truckload, part loads and full loads (LTL, PTL and FTL) without running its own fleet.
In this business the first question is the price, and the second is whether the load fits. Shippers want a number before they talk to anyone. The office wants requests it can price straight away, not a long email thread chasing details.
- An estimate a shipper gets instantly, without a call.
- A clear picture of how the load sits on the trailer.
- Rates the office can change itself, without breaking anything.
- Quote requests in a format the office can work with straight away.
- Pages for the routes and countries it serves, in three languages.
From the first estimate to a request in the office inbox
Instant estimate with a trailer deck plan
The shipper enters the load and gets an estimate straight away. A to-scale plan of a 13.6 m trailer deck shows how much space it takes.
Rates in a Google Sheet, checked before use
The tariff lives in a Google Sheet the forwarder controls. Validation catches a broken rate before the calculator uses it.
Quote requests as spreadsheets
When a shipper asks for a firm quote, the request is generated as an xlsx and a csv file and emailed to the forwarder.
Pages for each corridor and country
28 corridor pages and 27 country pages. Each one has to pass uniqueness checks before it is published, so no two pages say the same thing with the names swapped.
13 logistics tools and a place search
Thirteen tools for planning a shipment, and a place search built on about 280,000 places from GeoNames.
In shortPages built ahead of time, a calculator that reads a price sheet, and quote requests sent by email.
The estimate calculator
Running a forwarding or transport business?
The office edits its own rates, and a broken rate is caught before a shipper sees it. You own the code, the data and every account.
Built to be found by shippers who search a route
Shippers search for a route before they search for a forwarder. The site has a page for each route and country the forwarder serves, in three languages, and free tools that answer what shippers type into Google.
No near-copies. A route or country page that is too close to another one isn’t published, so every page has something of its own.
Every tool leads to a price. A shipper who arrives for a tool is one step from the instant estimate.
Addresses as people type them, small towns included.
Mistakes are stopped before a shipper sees them
The things that usually go wrong on a freight site are caught by the system, not by someone remembering to check.
A broken rate never reaches the calculator. The tariff sheet is checked when it changes, and a sheet with a bad row is rejected.
Requests the office can price straight away. Each one arrives as a spreadsheet, in xlsx and csv, with the load already described.
Where to go from here
Quoting freight by email?
Tell us how quotes reach your office today. We’ll tell you what we’d build first.
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