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Keep one record of every consignor, every lane and every unpaid bill.

A CRM for a road transport company is the single record of who books, on which lane, at what rate and what they still owe, kept where every booking counter can see it. GullySales works on setting up that record, choosing a tool that suits your staff and getting the entries made.

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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 CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For road transport companies

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

  • “The best customers live in the clerk's memory”

    Every owner knows the leading consignors by name. The rest are held in a diary or in one clerk's head. When that clerk is away or leaves, the rate, the lane and the history go with them.

  • “Branches each keep a separate book”

    The origin office, the destination office and the agent each note customers separately. A trader who books at one end and receives at the other appears as three strangers, and nobody sees the whole relationship.

  • “The lorry receipt holds data nobody collects”

    Each receipt names the consignor, consignee, goods, weight and freight. Entered into a sheet once, it becomes a booking history. Left in a file, it is only paper.

  • “A tool the clerks will not use is worse than a notebook”

    A system with a long list of fields stays empty. Clerks fill in what is quick, so a good record asks for a name, a lane, a rate and a date, and everything else is optional.

What we do

What we deliver for road transport companies.

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

  1. A consignor sheet built from your register

    Names, contact, lane, usual goods, agreed rate, credit terms and last booking date, entered from the books you already keep.

    Result: One sheet shows every consignor and when they last sent goods.

  2. A choice of tool matched to your staff

    A shared spreadsheet or a simple CRM in ordinary use in India, chosen for what the clerks will fill in.

    Result: The tool matches the habits of the counter.

  3. A short entry rule for each booking

    What the clerk records after every booking and who checks it.

    Result: Each booking leaves a record.

  4. Reminders for lapsed and expected consignors

    A list of consignors who send goods regularly and have not, with a nudge to the person responsible.

    Result: The owner sees whom to call before the competitor does.

  5. An accounts view with ageing

    Outstanding bills by consignor and age, tied to the same record as the bookings.

    Result: The accounts team and the owner read one list.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

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

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

These are the fields a transport office needs on every consignor.

Consignor name and market
Filled by the clerk at first booking, so a regular from the cloth market is not asked the same questions again at the next counter.
Lanes booked
Added from the lorry receipt, which lets you offer a return load or a second lane to a consignor already sending one way.
Goods and packing
Entered once by the booking clerk, so the loading desk knows what vehicle to send before the consignor arrives.
Agreed rate and who agreed it
Recorded by the owner or manager, so the clerk on duty quotes the same figure as the clerk on the previous shift.
Unpaid bills and age
Filled by the accounts clerk from the ledger, which lets the owner see who to call before booking another load.

Who it is for

This is written for these road transport companies.

  • Goods transport companies running fixed lanes between towns
  • Part-load and parcel transporters with booking offices in transport nagars
  • Full-load operators who book vehicles for traders and factories
  • Tempo and mini-truck operators for in-city and nearby-town runs
  • Transporters serving cloth, hardware and general wholesale markets
  • Transporters serving industrial estates and engineering clusters
  • Commission agents who book goods for several transporters
  • Transport companies with their own godown and door delivery at the destination

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Each branch keeps its own register and nobody has agreed to share it, so a central record would hold half the consignors.
  • Your clerks are not yet entering the lorry receipt details anywhere on the day, so a new sheet would be filled in later from memory.

How it works

How the CRM 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

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  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

    Sales process design

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

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    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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Tell us what you need
Do we need paid software?
Not at the start. A shared spreadsheet with disciplined entries does what a small transporter needs. Move to a CRM when branches need to see and update the same records at once.
Who should own the record?
One named person per office, with the owner reading a summary. Shared ownership means no ownership, so the entries drift and the record loses value in the first busy loading evenings.
Can we move our old registers into it?
Yes, for the consignors who matter. Start with the regulars and the last year's bookings. Entering every ancient name wastes effort; a smaller clean record is more useful than a large untidy one.
Should the CRM show a consignor's credit limit?
Yes, but let only the owner or accounts manager set it. A limit that every clerk can change stops meaning anything. Show the limit and the unpaid total beside each other so the counter can see at once when a new booking needs a word with the owner.
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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