Freight and transport companies · Logistics
Win rate contracts with shippers so your trucks stop running empty on the way back.
Most transport businesses grow on the owner's phone. A plant's dispatch team calls when they need a truck, a broker offers a load, and the owner quotes from memory. That keeps trucks moving, but return loads come at whatever rate the transport nagar offers, and two big customers can squeeze the price any time.
A 45-minute audit call, a written and scored report within a few working days, then a monthly report against your baseline.
In one paragraph
Freight and transport marketing makes you the carrier a plant's logistics manager or a trader thinks of when a load needs to move. Transport sales turns a one-off spot load into a rate contract on a lane. GullySales shows shippers your lanes and claims record, tracks every rate quote, and finds loads for the return legs your trucks run empty.
Shippers put carriers on their panel after a trial load goes well, not after a visiting card. What wins that trial is a rate sent the same day and a profile that shows lanes, vehicle types and claims record. What keeps the account is a call to the logistics manager before renewal, not after.
How buyers decide
How freight and transport companies are chosen.
In a factory, the logistics or dispatch manager chooses the carrier, and the purchase team negotiates the rate. They keep a panel of transporters for each lane, such as 32-foot containers from Hosur to Pune. A new carrier usually gets in through a trial load when a regular transporter fails, or through a reference from another plant. It stays on the panel through on-time placement, tracking updates, clean e-way bills and lorry receipts, and quick claim settlement.
Larger companies run annual or half-yearly rate contracts through procurement, sometimes on e-auction portals. They ask for GST registration, fleet ownership details, insurance and existing customers. Smaller traders book through brokers, transport nagars and load boards, or search for part-load services between two cities. They choose on price and on whether someone picks up the phone.
Commercial transportation beyond freight, such as staff buses, school transport, and tankers or specialised vehicles, is bought through tenders or direct contracts with an admin or operations head. These buyers care about safety records, driver behaviour, vehicle age and compliance with state transport rules, and contracts often renew for years if the service is steady.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for freight and transport companies.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“Our trucks come back empty from half the trips”
We get a good load to Chennai and then wait two days at the transport nagar for a return load at whatever rate the broker offers.
“Two customers give us most of our business”
When one of them cuts volume or switches transporters, we feel it within a month and have no pipeline of new shippers.
“We quote on the phone and lose track of what we offered”
A plant asks for rates on three lanes, the owner replies from memory, and nobody follows up when the answer does not come.
“Big companies ask for documents we do not have ready”
A procurement team sends a vendor registration form, and it takes us weeks to gather the fleet list, insurance and customer references.
“Shippers do not know we have tracking and a clean claims record”
We invested in GPS and careful drivers, but our only introduction is a visiting card and a WhatsApp message.
“Payment cycles stretch and we cannot see who is late”
Freight bills are paid in sixty or ninety days, and nobody tracks which customer is sliding until cash runs short.
What we do
What we do for freight and transport companies.
Everything included for freight and transport companies, and the result each part is there to produce.
Capability profile for shippers
A short company profile and website section showing your lanes, vehicle types and counts, tracking, insurance, claims process and the industries you move, in the format a logistics manager expects.
Result: A new shipper can judge in minutes whether you fit their lanes.
Vendor registration kit
GST, PAN, fleet list with registration and permits, insurance, bank details and reference letters kept ready in one folder for procurement forms and portals.
Result: A vendor registration request is answered in days, not weeks.
Rate enquiry and quotation tracker
A CRM record of every rate request with lane, vehicle, rate quoted, date and follow-up, replacing quotes given from memory on the phone.
Result: Every quotation gets a follow-up, and you learn which lanes you win.
Lane pages built for search
Pages for your main routes and services, such as part-load transport between two cities or container movement to a port, with vehicle types and a quote form.
Result: An SME searching for transport on your lane finds you directly, without a broker.
Target shipper list by lane
A list of manufacturers, distributors and traders who ship on your lanes, especially your return lanes, with the logistics contact for each.
Result: Your sales calls go to companies that need exactly the trucks you have.
Account review routine
A monthly review of each regular shipper's volume, on-time placement, claims and payment days, with a planned call when any of them slips.
Result: A shipper who is cutting volume gets a visit before they switch carriers.
Trip updates the dispatch manager can forward
A WhatsApp update at loading, in transit and at delivery, carrying the lorry receipt number, e-way bill and a photo of the signed proof of delivery.
Result: The logistics manager stops chasing your driver, and remembers that when the panel is reviewed.
How the result is measured
- Rate enquiries by source and lane
- Quotations sent and won
- New shippers on contract
- Empty return trips on key lanes
- Share of revenue from the largest two customers
- Payment days by customer
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
Annual rate contracts with manufacturers · Dedicated vehicles for a single shipper · Return loads on key lanes · Part-load services between major cities · Container movement to and from ports and ICDs · Cold chain transport for food and pharma · Over-dimensional and machinery transport · Staff and school transport contracts · Warehousing with last-leg distribution · Multimodal road and rail movements
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what freight and transport companies most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
Return-lane shipper campaign
Outreach to manufacturers and traders at the far end of your busiest lanes, offering competitive rates for loads coming back your way.
Result: Trucks that used to return empty carry paying loads.
Rate contract renewal season campaign
Outreach to logistics and procurement heads in the months before financial-year rate contracts are renewed, with your capability profile and a trial offer.
Result: You are on the panel before the new contracts are signed.
Festive and harvest season capacity campaign
A message to FMCG, consumer durable and agri shippers before festive and harvest peaks, offering committed capacity when trucks are hard to find.
Result: Shippers who struggle for trucks in peak season remember who delivered.
Industrial estate introduction drive
A visit plan and introduction pack for units in the industrial areas along your routes, with follow-up calls after each visit.
Result: SMEs near your routes start booking you directly.
Staff transport tender campaign
Tracking of staff and school transport tenders in your area and a ready submission pack with safety records and vehicle details.
Result: Long-term transport contracts add steady, non-freight income.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of freight and transport companies, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
Manufacturers' logistics and dispatch teams
We identify plants on your lanes and prepare an introduction, a capability profile and a follow-up schedule for their logistics managers.
Industry associations and small industry bodies
We prepare a member offer and talk for associations of small manufacturers whose members ship on your routes.
Freight forwarders and customs brokers
We prepare a partner rate sheet for forwarders and CHAs who need road transport to ports and ICDs.
Warehouses and 3PL companies
We prepare an outreach note for warehouse operators who need dependable trucks for inbound and outbound movements.
Procurement portals and tender listings
We track transport tenders and vendor registrations on procurement portals, including GeM where relevant, and prepare the documents each needs.
Who it is for
This is written for these freight and transport companies.
- Full truck load fleet owners
- Part truck load and groupage operators
- Transport brokers and freight agents
- Container and trailer transport companies
- Temperature-controlled and reefer transport
- Tanker operators for liquids and chemicals
- Heavy haulage and project cargo movers
- Staff bus and employee transport operators
- Freight forwarders handling road, rail and port movements
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for freight and transport companies
- 1
Assess
In the free audit we map where your loads come from, how quotations are tracked, how often trucks return empty, and how dependent you are on a few shippers.
- 2
Get the paperwork ready
A capability profile and a vendor registration kit, so any shipper or procurement team can be answered quickly.
- 3
Track every quotation
A CRM for rate enquiries by lane, with follow-up on every quote given.
- 4
Find the right shippers
Target lists by lane, return-lane campaigns, industrial estate visits and search pages for your routes.
- 5
Keep and grow accounts
Monthly account reviews on volume, service and payment, and planned calls before a contract renewal.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
SB Engineering
- Situation
- Buyers searching for laser cutting and sheet metal work in Bengaluru were finding other suppliers first, because the company did not rank for the terms its own customers type.
- What we did
- The site redesigned for mobile
- Search work on the buyer's terms
- Content that shows the work
- Social channels managed
- Result
- Website traffic rose 60% within six months, against a target of 50%.
- High-quality leads rose 45%, with a rise in conversion rates alongside them.
- Fifteen target keywords moved up the rankings, five of them into the top three positions.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
Also worked with
Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Felicity Inn · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · LL Trust · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · Shakthi Foundation · Shakthi Group · Urbanest · Insyde Studio · Venkateshwara Laser Tech · Vivara Studios
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every monthly report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with the free audit.
Option 1
The audit on its own
A 45-minute call and a written, scored report. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix the audit ranks first, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
A three-to-six-month programme
We run the work month by month, report against the baseline every month, and you renew on the numbers. No twelve-month lock.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
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