Green Haulage

This may appear a slightly unlikely article for me to be writing initially. Working in the road transport industry as i do , many of us think it is mechanically most unlikely to have a green conscience. This isn't surprising, given that my job depends upon hundreds of haulage autos pulling loads up and down the country, producing all those environment damaging carbon emissions on the way. In fact the reality is that my job allows me to be both a vocal green advocate and a road haulage representative while still helping me claim a regular income.

No, I haven't invented a miraculous gadget that changes exhaust emissions into pure oxygen - it's simply thanks to the nature of the freight exchange.

It works in this way : under standard circumstances, owner operators or haulage companies manage their own loads with their clients, make their delivery and then return home to the depot for the following load. Environmentally and on a human level, this is in no way efficient.

The driver is, to all intents and purposes only being paid for the outwards bound journey, and in these times when the price of fuel looks to be rising on a nearly daily basis, this is financially crippling. Now consider a haulage bristol exchange - a network of providers and haulage drivers / companies who distribute their loads between them implying the return journey can contain another job. This implies the trip is paid for ( all ways ) and therefore the haulage company is not operating at an inefficient loss ( even for a minute ) and profits can rise.

All very well and good, but this still isn't looking particularly ecological is it? Wait, I'm getting to that part. Now, if this return load is being distributed back to someone who is out on the road, it will not be given to an owner operator for whom that would be the only point of the trip. This suggests that there are less wasted journeys ( each mile involved has a delivery attached ) and thus less unnecessary carbon emissions all over the place.

Better still, if this collaboration for efficiency continues across the industry, then less road haulage cars will be required to shift all of the work, and we may even see the decommissioning of these carbon-emitting behemoths. The environment will certainly jump for joy.

Unlike most environmentally friendly solutions which require a factor of self sacrifice and extra work, the freight exchange actually creates benefits across the board : the haulage firms and owner operators earn more money, the roads get less congested and the environment becomes less polluted. Efficiency shines thru and everyone wins - and because of that, we have seen inspiring pick up for our online freight exchange for the 7.5tonne and above market : Haulage Exchange.

I can not tell if our shopper base is growing for monitory or environmental reasons ( it's probably both ), but whichever it is, the gentle migration to haulage bristol Exchange and other freight exchanges is fab news for the environment. And if our drivers save themselves important money as well , then all of the better. What harm is a little incentive when the environment is at risk?