Rules for finding a freight company or freight forwarder, logistics provider to order cargo shipping
Finding the right freight transport
The website com-stil.com was specifically created so that shippers or cargo owners could find the right truck or freight company. To deliver cargo quickly and inexpensively.
There are two options for finding a carrier:
- Direct search for transport. In the category «International road shipping» in the transport search, you should select the type of transport and specify the starting and ending points of the route. Depending on your tasks, select a suitable carrier in «transport – all requests». All available transport requests will open. Contact details of carriers and freight forwarders are open. You can contact the shipping organizers in a convenient way and order shipping.
- Posting shipper requests to find transport. On the main page of the website select «add cargo». Fill out a simple form with information about the shipping direction, the transport you need, and specify cargo details. Immediately after posting, your request will be available to all freight companies on the website, and they will contact you soon.
To view the contact details of carrier-freight forwarders, you need to complete a simple registration on the website or log into your personal account. In the section «My cargo», add a new shipment, raise your request to the top of the list, post several requests, there is also a quick search button for a carrier.
Sometimes transport company owners are willing to offer prices below market rates. This happens when the transport is traveling in the same direction, or collecting groupage in the same direction, contact the carrier, clarify the shipping possibility, specify the transport type, do not forget to negotiate, and conclude a shipping contract. Do not provide the loading address until you have concluded a shipping contract with the carrier.
What can affect shipping costs
The main parameters affecting the cost of cargo shipping:
- Route distance.
- Physical characteristics of the cargo (weight and dimensions).
- The need to provide specialized transport. Such transport itself is more expensive than standard, and transport depreciation is included in the shipping cost.
- Quality of transport, good condition of the truck and trailer, guarantee of cargo safety.
- Some specialized vehicles for cargo shipping, for example, large capacity trucks, reefers, trailers for oversized cargo, require additional expenses in transit.
- Requirements for cargo insurance in transit and the value of the transported goods.
- Companies operating outdated worn-out transport may carry cargo cheaper, but the quality of delivery is questionable.
- The carrier's possession of CMR liability insurance.
Shipping. How to choose a reliable freight carrier or freight forwarder
Every shipper wants to save on cargo delivery, and every carrier wants to earn more, and that is normal. But first you need to check:
- The carrier's experience in the freight market, which is indicated in registration documents.
- Availability of documentation and license to work in shipping.
- Quality of the offered transport.
- The ability to provide CMR insurance.
- Check the business reputation of the carrier. You can use recommendations obtained from the carrier, or read reviews on the internet.
- Ask the carrier for shipping under the Carnet TIR, or find out if the carrier is a member of an association for freight companies.
- Find out if the freight company has all necessary permits for shipping your specific cargo.
- Get from the carrier the vehicle documents and driver's license, clarify all contacts.
If several freight companies that meet your requirements have called you, you should be guided by the shipping cost they quote and a safety checklist.
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How to find a truck for international cargo shipping
Globalization and the expansion of world trade have led to the fact that most people use goods and consume products produced far from where they live and even from the country in which they reside. The development of an international cargo logistics system in this situation is natural. International road shipping is an important part of this system. Let us find out how to find a freight company and the right vehicle if you need to send cargo abroad or receive it from abroad, and establish a permanent cargo delivery process.
What cargo and where can be shipped by truck
Exporters and importers of goods may need to send or receive a wide variety of cargo and, naturally, they are interested in whether it will be possible to organize international cargo shipping by truck. Cargo owners need not worry; truck carriers have many types of vehicles, both universal – allowing the transportation of any cargo – and specialized for the transportation of liquid, bulk, groupage and oversized cargo, as well as reefers, which require special storage conditions. For this purpose, a section was created on the website where you can order international cargo shipping:
- Tank trucks, megaTrailers, lowboys.
- Car transporters, truck combinations of various sizes.
- Cement trucks.
- Bitumen tankers.
- Isothermal and all-metal box trucks.
- Reefers and curtainsider trucks.
- Other types of truck freight transport, providing maximum convenience and quality of shipments and loading and unloading operations when working with a specific type of cargo.
If necessary, freight carriers are able to organize international truck shipping of very oversized and very dangerous cargo of any ADR hazard class. In other words, any cargo can be sent abroad and received from abroad by truck, except for cargo prohibited by law.
The geography of truck freight shipping covers all of Eurasia, as long as there are roads between the point of dispatch and the point of destination. Russia, CIS countries, China, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, the Baltics, Northern, Eastern and Western Europe, Mongolia – all these regions are accessible by truck, and accordingly cargo shipping in these directions can be carried out.
How to find transport for international truck shipping of your cargo
On the website com-stil.com, all conditions have been created so that corporations of all ownership types, companies, and private individuals who need to ship cargo can easily find a truck carrier with the type of freight vehicle they need and ready to carry out international truck shipping.
Search for freight carriers by truck can be done in two ways:
- Review offers from carriers ready to perform international cargo shipping by truck. To do this, you need to go to the section «Transport – all requests» and select a transport request that meets your requirements, by shipping direction, type of truck, its cargo capacity and volume of the cargo compartment. An important parameter is also the time period when the transport is available; it should match your plans. Next, you need to get the carrier's contact details, they are available to all website visitors. Contact the vehicle owners, and soon your cargo will be on its way.
- If you have not found a suitable carrier offer, post your own request for cargo shipping. To do this, in the section Add cargo inform about the shipping you need and provide your contact details. Logistics specialists of freight companies constantly review new cargo delivery requests. You will definitely be called soon.
- In the section Consultants find a freight company and ask questions about the delivery of your goods.
