Is it profitable for a carrier to handle groupage, and how to find several groupage shipments along the way.
If your transport company provides groupage delivery services and you regularly search for orders, the COM-STIL freight exchange is the place to find shipments for groupage delivery, partial and combined loads for transportation along your route.
How to find a small shipment along the way, or groupage loads to fill your truck?
Groupage shipments are transported by various types of transport, most often by road. Therefore, you should search in the category «Groupage delivery» or «Cargo» by parameters such as country/city of loading and unloading, cargo description and transport type. By cargo type you can also find groupage shipments in the categories for rail, air and sea container shipping.
On the COM-STIL website you can find individual shipments to fill your vehicle with the missing volume, as well as shipments for full capacity. Customers post requests for shipping cargo of various volumes, so it is easy to find the missing load.
You can also search by cargo type, bypassing such data as transport type, loading and unloading location. Enter the phrase "Groupage cargo" in the "Cargo description" search field and you will immediately have access to a large number of shipping requests. You will no longer have to lose money and travel with an empty vehicle. Use the freight exchange functionality completely free of charge, it is convenient and profitable.
Efficiency of groupage shipping
Obviously, full truck capacity is fast: you arrive at the warehouse, load quickly, complete one customs declaration, and the cargo search problem is solved. After delivery, the carrier will be paid freight at the previously agreed rate. It is different when delivering several goods for different customers, preparing a separate transit customs declaration for each item if the cargo will be assembled abroad, distributing each item separately in the truck so that unloading proceeds sequentially for each recipient, and also ensuring there is no overweight at the scales. However, in the case of such groupage, and especially along the way, the carrier receives payment from each recipient for each shipment transported. That is, if, for example, Italy – Russia full truck delivery of regular cargo costs 2900 euros per trip, then in the case of delivering cargo as part of a groupage to several recipients, for the same volume of cargo transported, the same truck, the carrier will receive approximately 3900-4300 euros per trip in the same direction, but will spend a little more time, and mileage will also be slightly higher. But the difference in income is obvious.
Switch to groupage or search for full truck loads.
To become a specialist in groupage shipping, increase shipping volumes and thereby increase profit, simply having trucks and drivers is not enough. Consolidation warehouses – that is what a carrier needs, where thousands of small and large shipments accumulate on the premises, awaiting further delivery to recipients in different countries. Advertising groupage delivery, using small vans together with large trucks, using information from transport portals, posting notifications of free transport capacity – all of this combined will benefit the carrier. The number of incoming cargo offers will show which shipping method brings more profit.
Personal account as a tool for increasing profit.
On the COM-STIL website each carrier gets the opportunity to use the personal account functionality after registering on the site. Enter your email address, type of business, password and become a full member of our community. Complete your profile, provide all necessary information to increase confidence of cargo owners in your company.
The «Personal account» functionality provides the ability to add transport for groupage delivery, track the status of orders and use all site services free of charge. Do you have transport for groupage delivery? Become a regular visitor to our website, search for customers, eliminate downtime and earn more with groupage shipping.
