Have you ever been high on the freight fever? Trukker & Trukkin's freight fever has led them to the doors of fortune. A new wave was created in the freight industry that only a few rode, but those who did - succeeded.
Whether you are atrying to fill the gap in the on-demand truck-booking market (by starting a freight brokerage firm/ by launching an on-demand freight-booking startup), truck business owner desperate to introduce your transportation business to technology or a tech-lover all you need to emerge as an entrepreneur from statistics to strategy to software solution is embedded in this enlightening pile of words.
How Was Trukker (On-Demand Freight-Booking Platform) Born?
at the dinner table when Gaurav Biswas (founder, Trukker) spotted a lucrative gap in the 's freight forwarding market, realizing how hard it was to find a suitable truck at the right time at a reasonable cost.
A friend's complaint about the problems plaguing his company's truck shipments made wonder Gaurav Biswas w hy wasn't there an Uber for trucks?
And, that's how the region's first technology-enabled freight platform was born. A lucrative opportunity waiting to be serviced was grabbed by Gaurav Biswas & his childhood buddy . Biswas serves as the CEO, while Pradeep M. serves as CTO.
Born as a moving company in the in , Trukker scaled into all truck-related services including line haul, port movements, home relocations, and last-mile by .
years. Currently, UAE is a melting pot of vastly different truck manufacturers and was already high on freight fever the time Trukker tucked technology into the UAE's freight industry. It came as no surprise that Trukker experienced growth in its first Trukker serves 500+ B2B clients in over eight countries.
Let's Talk Competition!
The is growing at a steady rate, and one of the main drivers of this industry is UAE's freight & logistics market eCommerce.
Freight spells Future. Why?
◙ Because the number of businesses that buy, sell, and consume products are increasing at a steady rate, and these products must be shipped. That said, EVERY business needs a freight broker or an on-demand freight-booking company to help move the freight efficiently.
◙ The revenue in the UAE's eCommerce market alone is projected to reach $12,066 million by 2025. Not only eCommerce, but every industry from food & beverages to fintech is also desperate for efficient freight broker companies and on-demand freight booking apps.
◙ One more reason why launching a freight management/ freight finder platform makes sense is: It was estimated that one million trucks are currently in operation across the region and this number increases by 5 percent to 9 percent every year. There's a wide gap in the GCC freight market, waiting to be filled by technology entrepreneurs.
Now take a look at the UAE's on-demand truck-booking & freight dispatch startups.
◙ Call. In-person. These were the only two options for businesses to arrange truck services before and Yalla Pickup launched their services in .
These startups linked companies. Based on location, date, time, and shipment, users could schedule service either for later or on time. businesses to individual truck drivers + trucking/transportation Yalla Pickup also witnessed 200% month-on-month growth in its early startup days. These 2 startups made the shipping available at the palm of users' hands.
◙ Be thankful for the early existence of these startups if you are looking forward to launching an on-demand trucking company in the UAE. Why? These companies faced challenges in communicating their mission of on-time, safe, polite, and reasonable cost pickup truck service - something that was too hard to find in the region at the time.
Think about it! The standard trucking industry practice of handling the entire process usually happens via phone and in-person. Were the drivers used to working with a smart platform? Of course, not! They usually come from not well-educated communities.
◙ What about ? to be fully operational. LoadMe? Wasn't it launched in Yes, but it paid the price of being early. It took LoadMe Still, LoadMe is just a web-based platform (& not app-based) that gives soon-to-be-launched startups an edge over the competition.
To your surprise, devices to access the internet, which is around Internet penetration in the UAE is 9.26 million people use 93% of the population.
Would you consider LoadMe as your competitor if you are going to launch an app-based on-demand truck-booking platform?
Doesn't it make sense to launch an app-based on-demand freight management startup?
◙ Let's talk about and other such last-mile delivery businesses. These businesses aren't focused on trucking businesses. These businesses are focused only on delivering packages to customers. An on-demand truck-booking startup's target audience is different.
An on-demand truck-booking business can cover everything in road freight transport and logistics from long haul to last-mile delivery, intercity to intracity, and SCV to HCV.
◙ With competition so less and awareness so high in the UAE, could there be any better time to launch an on-demand app-based freight booking software?
How To Launch An On-Demand Truck-Booking Startup?
Introducing You To Load'EmUp!
Introducing you to , a readymade freight broker & freight finder software solution. It's a to launch a startup like ready-made white-label* software that aspiring entrepreneurs can use Trukker and, eventually, to revolutionalize the UAE's freight industry.
You can pay for the software solutionWhite-label means you can simply rebrand the software platform (Load'EmUp) to make it appear as if you had made it.