BACKHAUL
2,400 VEHICLES · UK & IRELAND
EMPTY RUNNING, SOLVED
Stop driving 140 empty miles home.
Backhaul finds a paying load going the direction you are already going, on the day you are already going. Average empty running down 31 percent across 2,400 vehicles, and you get paid in three days.
No monthly fee. No tie-in.
LIVE LOADS
1,847
posted in the last 24 hours, every one with the rate on the card.
DAVENTRY → CARLISLE
£2.06
AVONMOUTH → HULL
£1.88
DOVER → WARRINGTON
£1.97
RATE PER MILE
£1.94
artic, accepted this week
Average accepted rate this week: £1.94 a mile for artic, £1.42 for 7.5 tonne. Every load shows the rate before you tap, not after a phone call.
EMPTY RUNNING
18.6%
down from 27%
Fleet average empty running fell from 27 percent to 18.6 percent in the first six months. That is the whole product in one number.
PAYMENT
Three working days, and what it costs you.
Paid three working days after POD upload, for a flat 2 percent. Wait the standard 45 days and it costs you nothing.
2%
flat fee, paid on day three. £480 load, £9.60 to you, money in the account on Wednesday.
£0
if you can wait the standard 45 days. Same load, same rate, no deduction at all.
MATCHING
How it works on a return leg.
Tell us where you tip and when you need to be home. We look at loads within 40 miles of your route and rank them by what you actually earn after the deviation and the fuel.
01
Tip and tell us
Log where you are tipping and the hour you need to be back on the yard. Twenty seconds, in the cab.
02
We search 40 miles
Every posted load within a 40 mile corridor of your route home, live, with the shipper's rate already attached.
03
Ranked on net
Deviation miles and fuel come off before you see the order. The top load is the one that actually pays best.
04
Tap and run it
Accept on the phone. Collection window, contact and paperwork land on the load before you set off.
DAVENTRY → CARLISLE
ARTIC · 233 MI
Shipper pays
£480.00
Backhaul takes 8%
−£38.40
You get
£441.60
RATES
Both numbers on the card.
The shipper pays a rate, we take 8 percent, and both numbers are on the load card. No hidden margin and no rate that mysteriously drops at invoice.
£1.94 a mile for artic, £1.42 for 7.5 tonne — the accepted averages this week, not an asking price.
VETTING
Every shipper is credit-checked and every carrier's O-licence, insurance and CPC are verified before the first load. Two missed payments and a shipper is removed, permanently.
Who is allowed to post a load.
✓
Credit-checked shippers
Every account runs through a credit file before it can post. Limits are set on what they can owe at any one time.
✓
O-licence verified
Operator licence checked against the traffic commissioner's register, with the disc number on file.
✓
Insurance and CPC on file
Goods in transit, public liability and driver CPC, all dated and re-checked before they lapse.
✓
Two strikes, permanently
Two missed payments and the shipper is removed. Not suspended, not warned again — removed.
PAPERWORK
The POD lives on the load, not in your cab door.
Photograph the POD, it is attached and timestamped. CMR, weight tickets and defect reports all live on the load, so the office is not chasing you at nine at night.
9 sec
median time from photographing a POD to it being attached, timestamped and visible to the shipper's accounts team. The three-day clock starts on that upload.
POD
Photographed, timestamped, geotagged at the tip.
CMR
Attached on international loads before collection.
WEIGHT TICKET
Scanned at the weighbridge, held against the load.
DEFECT REPORT
Filed from the walkaround, straight to the office.
SMALL FLEETS
Six vehicles, one account.
Add every vehicle and driver under one O-licence. Accept on behalf of a driver, see who is loaded and who is running empty, and take one payment run for the whole fleet on day three.
31%
less empty running, fleet-wide
FLEET TODAY
STATUS
YK71 HGV
Daventry → Carlisle · M. Okafor
LOADED
MX20 TRK
Avonmouth → Hull · S. Whelan
MATCHED
BD69 LDN
Dover → Warrington · J. Price
LOADED
SC22 FLT
Grangemouth → Leeds · A. Barr
TIPPING
PE18 RTN
Felixstowe → Bristol · D. Nkemelu
MATCHED
LV23 BHL
Wakefield → Cardiff · R. Vaughan
LOADED
GET STARTED
Sign up with your O-licence.
Licence number, insurance certificate and CPC. Verified inside a working day, and the first load you accept is on the same terms as the two thousand four hundred vehicles already running.
Backhaul · 2,400 vehicles · paid three working days after POD