Ontruck

OnTruck’s mission is to use technology to change the status quo by seamlessly connecting businesses directly with carriers, via an on-demand service, to provide a freight delivery network that allows any company to make immediate shipments with total control over how and when their shipments are delivered.

Focusing on regional road freight first, Ontruck gives shippers greater transparency, visibility and trust: pricing is instant across multiple truck specifications, exact pick-up slots are selected, and shipments are traceable throughout the journey. Similarly, both individual truck drivers and large fleet managers who connect via the Ontruck app, are free to accept shipments that fit their schedule, increasing the utilisation of their assets, and getting paid automatically, on-time and with reliability.

Ontruck is replacing the manual matching process, done by intermediaries today, who rely on phone and fax (!) and offer poor levels of visibility and pricing opacity. What intermediaries charge 15% commission to do in seven hours or a minimum of 10 phone calls, Ontruck can now do in 19 seconds with a couple of clicks.

To carriers, who are mostly owner-operated fleets of trucks, the opportunity to more easily find work and then reliably and automatically get paid for that work is a dramatic improvement to today. It also means that soon they can happily say goodbye to having their trucks run empty on most return journeys. At scale, better utilisation of trucks could have an incredible impact in terms of decreasing Co2 emissions in Europe.