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Bidding to boost livestock haulage
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A NEW SERVICE is promising to make livestock haulage more efficient. Backload UK, based in Dorset, aims to provide a nationwide service matching hauliers and livestock loads from farms, helping to cut the number of empty return loads.
Under the scheme, operators, who must be ABM-registered, enter their details with Backload. This is free and carries no obligation. Farmer members will then contact Backload with details of their transport requirements, and Backload will cross-check the potential load with known locations or hauliers' journeys.
Where a direct match is made the operator will be called or receives a text with job details, and then quotes for the job.
Backload will contact the farmer with the cost details, and if the quote is accepted the contract is confirmed.The service makes its money by adding a 15% surcharge onto the haulier's quoted rate there is no cost to operators.
Hauliers invoice Backload for all work undertaken each month and are guaranteed prompt payment, according to the firm's project manager Steve Adamson.
"So far we have about 130 hauliers signed up," he reports, -and we've had a huge amount of interest from farmers."