Web based load matching services to streamline the backdated system of Indian transportation market

Nov. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- In the past all the activities in the Indian transportation & logistics sectors were performed manually with direct dial-up links between users and providers and through freight brokers for getting verbal details of loads. Showing the details of loads and vehicles were not possible and so matching between loads and vehicles could not be performed.

Computer/Web based load matching is considered to be the most effective and useful way to automate and streamline the process for the people engaged in the Indian transportation & logistics market.

The online load matching provides mutual benefits for load providers and vehicle owners. The Internet provides worldwide access. A consignor/load provider posts an obtainable load, and each carrier from all the over the world get the ability to view it within a second. Similarly if a carrier/vehicle/fleet owner posts an empty vehicle, any freight broker, traffic manager, shipper with accessible freight will be able to view that instantly.

Suain Logistics, headquartered in Kolkata, India offers this types of web based truck-load matching services to Transport contractors for utilizing their fleet effectively being able to match freight with additional vehicle capacity.

Suain Logistics created www.loadjunction.com to harness the supremacy of web technology to unveil the underlying efficiency & get supreme effectiveness to Indian freight transport activities. This online portal will provide huge benefits to the logistics and transportation sectors in the following ways :-

Considerably provide improved real-time information for truck-trailer & freight availability and rates on different routes on PAN India basis.

Remove the uncertainties for carriers to deal with unidentified or unproved shippers (or vice versa) as each listing will be thoroughly scrutinized for the consistency and reliability of the contractors who offer their services through this online portal.

The logistics companies, freight brokers, transporters, traffic managers will reap the benefits of getting a streamlined method for communicating their loads with all carriers at once.

The carriers will be capable of handling with their own load board and view the loads after being posted by providers, permitting them to rapidly communicate & confirm the load providers through our same online system that they had secured the loads details and they had trucks accessible to move the freight. Besides Real time freight helped carriers to view all overflow freight being posted by the shippers.

This online portal will facilitate carriers with a platform through which to exchange traffic information to fellow-operators, often free of charge.

In our online portal there will be availability of loads on 24x7 days and it will help carriers to keep their trucks full and moving all the seasons. The carriers should not keep their vehicle idle/empty most of the time and reduce their dead head miles.

Consignors/Shippers can easily find consistent carriers that comprise trucks in there area and lessen shipping time.

Load Providers/Shippers can advertise their available loads smoothly and Owners-operators can simply utilize it to get potential loads, and then get in touch with the providers direct to settle terms.

Process:

Consignor/Load Provider: Register with the page http://www.loadjunction.com/post_load.php to post detailed loads online for free. They will also be able to edit and delete loads. Get the detailed information of the prospective carriers, rates, mileage to dispatch their loads in quickest possible time.

Carrier/Owner-operators: Register with the page http://www.loadjunction.com/post_truck.php and post online their detailed trucking equipment to haul any loads. Get the detailed information load information like pick up date and place, delivery date and place, quantity, type and size etc. Get the contact details of consignors/brokers and negotiate with terms and conditions directly.

Conclusion
It is a great concept and very much important in Indian perspective. Beside extensive online publicity, the concept has to be supported by an off-line model also.  An outsized network of community should be built up for its achievement and that might take time. Anyone getting into this will need to have deep pockets to keep the concept afloat. Revenue model for all the stakeholders involved have to be a win concept.