Simply defined, haulage means the transportation of goods and services, commonly called loads, over land. This often conjures up images of America's truckers and road systems – grizzled veterans driving 18-wheelers. In the United Kingdom, transportation and haulage is still a maj...

Working as a courier may not sound like an uber glamorous job, but drivers who work at self-employed courier jobs are a necessary aspect of a competitive and profitable industry that makes its profit based on timeliness, reliability and speed. Although the job many sound easy, it means long hours...

Self employed courier jobs sound like a lot of hard work for not enough rewards – but this job is not just all about investing in a van and setting off to eat up the miles. Working as a delivery person often means contracting your services to established companies or exchange services. This means...

Getting a guaranteed back load each and everytime your transport or delivery trucks set out to accomplish an order is an ideal situation, but achieving it requires all the sense of integrity and professionalism you apply to your general business practices. There are freight and haulage compa...

Shipping your goods or paying a freight service for that same purpose is traditionally a costly endeavour, especially if you have to transport a significantly large cargo. When shipping companies came upon the idea of implementing the back load not only to mitigate cost but also to improve margin...

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past several years, you might have missed one single important development in the history of the freight and haulage industry: the increasingly profitable and environmentally sound pracice of transporting goods as a back load. If you’re a regular custome...

If you speak to both customers and haulage companies in the UK, you might get a surprising response: while on one hand customers bewail the rising cost of shipping and freight services, on the other hand shippers also say that they’re not charging high enough to increase their margins. So somewhe...

Most companies realise that investing in their business is the only way to make progress. Of course it isn’t always as simple as that, but one story was revealed online recently that showed how investment is sometimes vital if you’re going to take on a bigger load when working in the haulage indu...

After a build up that lasted for years, the London Olympics finally took place and were deemed to be a huge success. But many companies were bearing the load [pun intended] in order for this to be the case, and road haulage firms were certainly among them.

Getting around London was a chal...

Every haulage company carries one load or another throughout the day. From food to medicines and spare parts to equipment – you just never know what the next is going to be.

Of course, some haulage companies specialise in abnormal and unusual loads, having built experience in just that ki...