Solutions
Contract Freight on a Recurring Lane
The same lane, on an agreed schedule, at an agreed rate — for freight that repeats.
Same 8-ton flat deck, committed to a repeating lane. Contract work is priced by conversation rather than from a rate table, because a standing commitment is worth more to both sides than a spot rate.
The short version
Contract Logistics, 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 is contract logistics here?
- A recurring freight lane on an agreed schedule and rate for an agreed term, rather than load-by-load spot pricing.
- How is it priced?
- By conversation rather than rate table, fixed for the term, with the escalation basis written down in advance.
- What is the honest limitation?
- River Express operates one truck, so contract terms requiring simultaneous multi-vehicle capacity are declined rather than accepted and missed.
What goes wrong
Where this usually fails.
Rates drift
The number that won the business quietly rises, and nobody can tell you exactly when or why.
The truck keeps changing
Site rules, gate hours and offloading arrangements are re-learned every week by someone new.
Nobody owns the relationship
A different person answers each time, and none of them remembers last month.
How we do it
What we actually do differently.
An agreed rate for an agreed term
Fixed for the term, with the escalation basis written down. If fuel moves the number, you see the mechanism rather than a new invoice.
One truck, one operator, one memory
The advantage of a small operator on a standing lane: your arrangements are learned once and stay learned.
Priced by conversation
A recurring enquiry routes to a person, not an automated rate. Standing lanes are worth planning properly.
What you get
Included, every load.
- Rate fixed for the term with a written escalation basis
- Scheduled windows you can plan production around
- Your site arrangements learned once
- A named person who knows the account
- Priority over spot work on your committed days
Scope, stated plainly
What we will and will not take.
The right-hand column is the useful one. Anyone can list what they offer.
Yes — send it
- A weekly or monthly run on a fixed lane
- Regular movement between two of your own sites
- Predictable inbound material or outbound finished goods
- Seasonal contracts with a defined start and end
No — we’ll tell you straight
- Volumes needing more than one truck at a time
- Lanes we cannot service reliably — we would rather decline than fail weekly
- Terms requiring capacity guarantees a single truck cannot honour
How it works
Four steps. No account required.
- 01
Rate
Send the lane, the load and the date. A real number comes back the same day.
- 02
Book
Accept the rate and the slot is yours. No account, no onboarding pack.
- 03
Track
Location updates on WhatsApp at departure, midpoint and arrival.
- 04
Prove
A photographed, signed POD in your inbox the day it lands.
Related industries
Who uses this most.
Manufacturing
Raw material in, finished goods out, on a lane you can plan production around.
Read moreAgriculture
Inputs in and output out, on farm roads, in season, where the offloading is often a tractor.
Read moreRetail & FMCG
Palletised stock between DCs and stores, arriving inside the booking slot.
Read moreQuestions
Contract Logistics, answered.
What is the minimum term?
There is no fixed minimum. What matters is whether the lane is predictable enough for both of us to plan around — that conversation is more useful than a policy.
How do you handle fuel increases?
The escalation basis is written into the agreement upfront, so an increase is a calculation you can check rather than a new number you have to accept.
What happens if the truck breaks down?
You are told immediately, with the realistic recovery time and any partner option we can arrange. One truck means a breakdown is a real risk, and pretending otherwise would be worse than naming it.
Tell us the lane.
Origin, destination, what it is and roughly what it weighs. A real number comes back the same day — and an honest no if this is not ours.