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Forty transporters share one road, and the map decides whose shed.

Local search for a transport company is a trader typing transport office near me and hoping to find the right shed in a transport nagar. GullySales completes the listing with lanes, fleet photographs and loading hours, moves the pin to your gate, and handles the godown separately.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What local SEO means

Local SEO is the work of making your business show up for searches that name your town or locality, such as a service plus an area name. GullySales sets up locality pages, local citations and map listings so nearby customers find you before a competitor across town.

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Sales and marketing for freight and transport companies, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For freight and transport companies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The booking office and the godown are two addresses”

    A customer with a parcel wants the counter and a lorry wants the loading bay, and one listing sends both to the wrong place.

  • “Nobody can find shed number forty-seven”

    The map drops the pin on the main road of the nagar, and the customer walks past thirty identical shutters looking for yours.

  • “Parcel service to a city is a search with a load behind it”

    A trader types the destination city beside the trader's own area, and the listing carrying that lane gets the walk-in.

What we do

What we deliver for freight and transport companies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Listings handled for the office and the godown

    The booking counter and the loading godown set up correctly, each with the right hours and the right phone number on it.

    Result: Customers and lorries go to the right address.

  2. The pin moved to your shed and gate

    Map position corrected to the shed number and the entrance a lorry can use, with the nagar, the row and a landmark in the directions.

    Result: Nobody walks past thirty shutters.

  3. Lanes and services entered on the listing

    The routes you run, part load, full load and the specialised vehicles, listed as services in the words a trader would use.

    Result: A caller knows you go there before ringing.

  4. Photographs of the fleet, godown and counter

    Pictures of the vehicles, the loading bay, the stacked consignments and the booking counter, taken on a working day.

    Result: A trader can see the company is real.

  5. Loading and booking hours stated honestly

    The hours the counter takes bookings and the hours loading actually happens, including the days you close, written on the listing.

    Result: Nobody arrives after the last loading.

  6. Calls and direction requests reported

    The calls, direction requests and messages each listing brings, counted against the position before either was claimed.

    Result: You can see what the map brings the counter.

How the result is measured

  • Map pack ranking
  • Local search visibility
  • Enquiries by locality

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What Google weighs here

How a trader or a plant finds a transporter on the map, and what to fix first.

Trucking, forwarding or agent
Choose trucking company, freight forwarding service or transport service by the work that earns most. Pick the one that matches how a shipper describes you, not the one you prefer.
Lanes as services
List the routes you run, such as Bengaluru to Chennai full load or part load to Hyderabad, as separate services. Shippers search the lane, not the word logistics.
Booking counter against shed
Say which address takes bookings, which receives goods and which loads the trucks. A consignor who drives to the wrong address with a load loses a day.
Justdial and IndiaMART transport listings
Small shippers still look here. Keep company name, booking counter number and GST details identical to the profile, and remove entries with an old number.
Photographs of fleet and godown
Show the trucks with the company name painted, the loading bay and the booking counter. A plant manager judges an unknown transporter by the yard.
Questions on liability
Answer whether you take part loads, whether you issue a lorry receipt, and how a claim for damage is handled. These come up before the first booking.

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

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the local SEO work runs

  1. 1

    Audit every listing

    We check the Google Business Profile and directory listings for every branch against what should actually be shown.

  2. 2

    Complete and correct

    Profiles are filled in fully and inconsistent details are corrected across every directory found.

  3. 3

    Build location pages

    Each branch gets a page written for its own area, not a copy of the head office page with the address changed.

  4. 4

    Set up review handling

    A simple process for requesting and responding to reviews is put in place with whoever is closest to the customer.

  5. 5

    Report and adjust

    Map actions and enquiries per branch are reported, and branches falling behind are prioritised the next month.

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 later 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 guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. 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.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
We are one of many in the transport nagar. Does a listing help?
It is how a trader picks between the sheds. Photographs of your fleet and the lanes you run separate you before anyone walks in. Most of your neighbours have a listing with a name, a number and nothing else.
Should the godown have its own listing?
If it takes bookings or deliveries from customers, yes, with its own hours and number. If it is only a loading point for your own vehicles, keep it off the map and put the address on your lane pages instead.
Should we list every city our trucks run to?
List the lanes you run regularly as services, but give the profile only one pin, at your base. Listing a city as an address where you have no office risks suspension. Use website pages for each lane instead.
A booking agent with no trucks is listed as a transporter. What can we do?
Do not copy that listing. Strengthen your own profile with fleet photographs and the shed address, and report a listing that gives a false address or name. Check the platform's current rules for how to report one.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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