4 Innovative Ways to Find Delivery Work

A vehicle, a driver, and willingness to move: these aspects lie at the heart of transportation and any foray into the haulage business. Many independent operators and small businesses have kicked off with little more than these three attributes.
However, as time goes by, you need to explore ways of expanding your client base. You can and should do this by the traditional means best known to you, but there are also other innovative means of finding additional jobs that can be a great boost to your business.

Be App Friendly

The digital age has brought with it the digital economy. This means the scrolling through various applications on your smartphone or the searching for new software on your laptop is not limited to social needs. There are a number of generic business apps that can help you, such as those focused on finance, bookings, and time-management, but there are also those that help with delivery work. Whether they help you better plot a route, keep a count of the clients on your list, or manage your inventory of cargo, these apps can help you run a far more efficient workflow.

Online Exchanges

The traditional hunt for work revolves around knowing your local industry and advertising your skills through largely word-of-mouth based avenues. You can pick up delivery work by reaching out to a pool of local businesses through flyers, leaflets, classified ads and web postings, but a fresh way of doing pretty much the same thing allows you to reach out to a much larger pool of potential clients without printing a flyer, making a phone call or even leaving your desk. Online exchanges offer a fantastic means to dive into a brimming marketplace. This online meeting point between those offering and those looking for haulage work is quickly becoming the best way to assuring a steady flow of jobs.

Hit the Outskirts

Naturally, a great deal of delivery work is focused in and around cities. As technology gives even the smallest operators a chance of tapping into the busy pulse of metropolitan transportation, there is increasingly both more competition and more opportunity in these areas. However, technological change is also opening up an innovative avenue to procure jobs beyond the city limits. The outskirts of many thriving centres may lack corporate infrastructure, but these areas are increasingly more populated as transport into city centres improves and as remote regions are increasingly less remote - at least technologically.

Master Social Media

It is perhaps a little too much to expect a driver to spend hours updating their blog about shifting their latest truckload of mackerel to the local fish and chip shop. But social media does give a business the chance to grab extra delivery work, for one simple reason. More and more retailers are relying on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to establish their web presence, since more and more consumers are relying on these, and other review sites, as their way of measuring the value of a small business. This means the haulage company who spend some time building a social media presence adds to their chances of growing their brand.