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Block packers and movers or you will pay for house shifting calls.

Paid search for a transporter works for part loads and spot business, not for a rate contract with a plant, and it is worth running only when trucks are free. GullySales sets campaigns by lane and vehicle, blocks the household shifting traffic, and counts loads booked against spend.

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What pay per click advertising means

Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend against enquiries received.

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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.

  • “Transport service in your city means house shifting”

    Most of that traffic is a family moving a two-bedroom flat, and one of those calls costs the same as a trader with a regular load.

  • “Advertise when the trucks are idle, not all year”

    Spend has to follow capacity. A campaign running while every vehicle is committed buys enquiries you then have to refuse.

  • “A rate contract will never come from a click”

    Procurement runs its own process with vendor forms and references, so money spent chasing a plant through adverts goes nowhere.

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. Campaigns by lane and vehicle type

    Separate budgets for each route and each vehicle class, limited to the cities at either end rather than run across the country.

    Result: Clicks come from the routes you can serve.

  2. Negatives for shifting, courier and driver jobs

    Blocks on packers and movers, household shifting, courier queries, truck hire purchase, driver vacancies and second-hand vehicle searches.

    Result: The budget stops answering families and job seekers.

  3. Click-to-call and chat inside booking hours

    Calls and WhatsApp switched on while the booking office is staffed, so a paid click does not ring a desk nobody is at.

    Result: Every paid enquiry meets a person.

  4. Landing pages carrying transit days and capacity

    A page per campaign naming the route, the vehicles, the transit time and the documents you issue, instead of a form on a stock photograph.

    Result: The caller already knows whether you fit.

  5. Budget matched to free capacity

    A routine for turning campaigns up when vehicles are idle and down when the fleet is committed, reviewed with your dispatch desk.

    Result: You stop buying enquiries you cannot serve.

  6. Spend read against loads booked

    Monthly cost per enquiry and per load booked by lane, set against the figures from before the account was switched on.

    Result: You can drop the lanes adverts cannot fill.

How the result is measured

  • Cost per click
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries from paid search

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

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Searches to bid on and block

The searches worth paying for at a transport company, and the ones to keep out.

Lane searches, such as Chennai to Delhi truck transport
Bid on the lanes where your trucks return empty. A trader who types a lane has a load to move. Name the vehicle types and the pickup city in the advertisement.
Part load and LCL transport searches
Bid. Small traders and manufacturers search for part load between cities. Mention your terminals, how far a pickup goes, and whether you give a lorry receipt.
Reefer, tanker and container transport searches
Bid, if you run that fleet. These buyers need a particular vehicle and have a date. Name the vehicle, capacity and the lanes you serve in the advertisement.
Packers and movers, courier, driver job and truck price searches
Block. Packers and movers, house shifting, courier, truck driver job, truck for sale and truck loan bring the wrong callers. Add all of them as negatives.
Where the click lands
A page for the lane or vehicle with a form that asks pickup and drop towns, the material and the weight, and a call button that rings when the booking desk is answering.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a call or a form with a pickup, a drop and a material that became a booking. Log the loads booked and the lanes they ran on, then move spend toward those lanes.

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.

  • Your phone is answered only when the owner is free, so paid calls would arrive at a ringing handset.
  • You cannot yet separate house shifting calls from freight calls, so spend would go on the wrong callers.

How it works

How the pay per click advertising work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Agree the whole budget

    We fix the total paid budget across platforms, who owns each ad account, and how much is open to moving.

  2. 2

    Audit tracking and accounts

    We check that conversions fire once, that calls and WhatsApp chats are counted, and that your enquiry sheet matches what the platforms say.

  3. 3

    Set one definition of success

    You and we agree what a qualified enquiry is and what an order is, so every platform is judged the same way.

  4. 4

    Build and launch the plan

    Campaigns are structured across platforms with shared naming and tags from day one.

  5. 5

    Read search terms and lead quality

    We review the queries that triggered ads and the enquiries that arrived, and remove waste before moving money.

  6. 6

    Reallocate and report

    Budget moves toward what is earning, within agreed limits. Results are reported against the baseline, at the frequency agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Should a transport company advertise on Google at all?
For part loads, spot business and the lanes where you run empty, yes. For panel business with a manufacturer, no, because that goes through vendor registration and references. Keep the spend on the gaps in your schedule.
We keep getting house shifting calls.
That is the negative keyword list, and it is the first hour of work on any transport account. Household shifting, packers and movers and courier queries all sit on the words you are bidding for.
Should we bid on competitors' names or on aggregator apps?
Seldom. Those searchers want that brand's app and truck. Spend on lane and vehicle searches, and use your own name in a small campaign. Compare any competitor test by loads booked.
Can a small fleet owner use Google Ads at all?
Yes, for a few lanes where you have trucks. Start with a small budget, switch on only when trucks are free, and read loads booked. A rate contract with a plant will still come through a meeting, not a click.
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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