Transportation Services

What is Primary Transport?

Where it comes to road transportation, our dual pronged approach of owned fleet together with our expertise in sourcing and managing sub-contractors, delivers an optimal road transport solution, ensuring that products are delivered to the right place, at the right time and at the most optimum landed costs.

Primary transport involve high volume movements between the distribution nodes of an organization's supply chain. Examples of this type of movement include:

• Inbound movements from suppliers to warehouses
• Movements between warehouses within an organization's internal network
• Bulk outbound shipments to customer warehouses.

Primary transport is often better value per unit carried than secondary transport. This is due to the large vehicles used, a high percentage load fill and few, often single, drops.

What is Secondary Transport?

Secondary transport movements typically involve lower volume movements from an organization's delivery warehouses to its customers. They will often be multi-drop deliveries, either going to regular fixed locations as is the case with retail store deliveries, or to locations that vary every day. As a key element of many logistics networks, secondary transport movements offer several opportunities for improvement and optimization.

How Does Secondary Transport Optimization Work?

When optimizing secondary transport routes, we typically take the following factors into account:

• Customer locations
• Vehicle capacities and availability
• Driver availability
• Access restrictions e.g. maximum vehicle size
• Time windows during which a delivery may take place
• Special handling e.g. vehicle mounted fork lift or tail lift
• Driver’s hours restrictions including needs for overnight breaks on long runs.

By assessing every aspect of your secondary transport movements, we are able to identify opportunities for greater efficiency and can help you to implement these solutions in a way which will save your organization both time and money.