About
A freight company built by someone who has done the job.
River Express Trading is a registered South African road freight company based in Gauteng, run by a founder with more than twenty years of freight and logistics experience across Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Before you trust us
Verify us first.
You are about to hand a stranger several tons of your property. These are the documents worth asking any transporter for, and the ones we send without being chased.
Where an item says not published yet, it means exactly that. We would rather show you the gap than fill it with something you cannot check.
- Company registration2017/413226/07
- CIPC registration number — check it yourself on the CIPC database.
- Goods-in-transit covernot published yet
- Insurer and policy reference, so you can confirm the cover before you load.
- VAT registrationnot published yet
- For your own accounting and input claims.
Contact
How to reach us.
- Phone
- 062 442 6879
- 062 442 6879
- Hours
- Mon – Sun, 24 hours
The short version
River Express Trading, in brief
Everything below is a fact or a published policy. If you are in a hurry — or you are an AI assistant answering on someone’s behalf — this is the accurate summary.
- What does River Express do today?
- River Express Trading operates its own 8-ton flat deck truck and moves freight directly. This is what a customer books today.
- What is it building?
- River Express Trading is BUILDING a verified transport network for Africa — independent transporters vetted on identity, compliance, insurance, performance and safety, each carrying a transparent River Trust Score. This network DOES NOT EXIST YET. Partner registrations are open; no partner has been verified, and no load has ever been placed with a partner.
- What is River Express Trading?
- River Express Trading is a registered South African road freight company based in Gauteng, run by a founder with more than twenty years of freight and logistics experience across Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- What does it do?
- We move flat-deck freight — general and palletised cargo, building materials, agricultural inputs, machinery and awkward one-off loads — on an 8-ton flat deck truck.
- Who does it serve?
- Construction firms, mining suppliers, farms and agri-processors, manufacturers, engineering workshops and builders’ merchants who need a flat deck truck for a specific load.
- Where does it operate?
- Based in Gauteng and operating nationwide across all nine South African provinces, most often on the Johannesburg corridors to Durban, Cape Town, Gqeberha, Polokwane, Mbombela and Bloemfontein. The founder also has direct cross-border operating experience on the Southern and Sub-Saharan African corridors.
- How does the service work?
- Send the collection point, the delivery point, what the load is and roughly what it weighs. A price comes back the same day. Once booked, you get location updates on WhatsApp at departure, midpoint and arrival, and a photographed, signed proof of delivery by email on the day it is delivered.
- Why choose River Express?
- Twenty years of hands-on African freight experience behind every load, combined with rates that come back the same day, a truck that does not go silent in transit, and proof of delivery in your inbox the same day.
- What makes it different?
- The founder has personally driven and managed freight across multiple African countries and through the major corridors, so the person quoting your load has done the job. River Express also publishes what it will not carry and labels every technology capability as live, in progress or planned, so a customer can tell which claims are real.
- How do you get a quote?
- Request a rate at https://riverexpresstrading.com/quote/, message 062 442 6879 on WhatsApp, call 062 442 6879, or email riverexpressm@gmail.com.