Apexloads

Apexloads is a digital logistics platform for Africa's third-party logistics sector, serving transporters, freight forwarders, brokers, and hybrid operators that manage both loads and trucks. Its core product is a load board that connects carriers, brokers, and shippers, allowing users to post and search loads and trucks and to match freight capacity in real time. Price negotiation and booking take place off-platform once contact details are exchanged. The platform also provides real-time GPS tracking of loads from the mobile app or website, giving brokers and fleet operators visibility into shipment progress without phoning drivers.

Beyond matching and tracking, the company describes a unified platform combining load board functionality with a transportation management system, a customer relationship manager, real-time shipment visibility, and invoice factoring. This combined product is referred to as the Transportation Relationship Manager (TRM). Two adjacent services are described: the EAC Profile verification system, which credentials and checks compliance of 3PLs to increase trust in the network, and an upcoming invoice factoring service aimed at easing cash-flow strain caused by extended payment terms for smaller transporters. An AI logistics assistant named Litas is promoted on the company website.

Apexloads frames the African logistics opportunity around what it calls a triple challenge: fragmented matching of cargo with transport capacity, the absence of a unified authority enforcing logistics standards, and cash-flow disruption from delayed payment. Its products map to each of those three problems. Mobile applications for iOS and Android are published under the developer name Apexloads Inc and are categorized as business and travel apps for load board and truck navigation.

Founding story

Apexloads states it was born from firsthand experience in the logistics and transportation industries, where inefficiencies, high costs, and limited transparency were seen as barriers to growth and profitability, prompting the creation of a unified platform for transporters, freight forwarders, and hybrid operators. Founder and CEO Charles Thuo was born and raised in Kenya and moved to the United States at 20, earning an Associate's degree in General Engineering Technology and a Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering. He worked as an aerospace engineer at Cessna and Boeing Defense, served as a Captain and combat engineer in the U.S. Army National Guard, and operated as a flatbed owner-operator based in Oklahoma City across the lower 48 states.

Business model

Apexloads sells access to its logistics platform on a flat monthly subscription basis rather than charging commissions per load, positioning fixed pricing with no hidden fees or load-based fees as a core term of its offer. Prospective users are offered a free trial and demo before subscribing. Planned adjacent revenue lines include an invoice factoring service (asapfactoring.com) that would advance payments against receivables, and the EAC Profile credentialing and verification service (eacprofile.com).

Revenue is based on fixed monthly subscription fees for platform access, explicitly excluding per-load commissions. The company also describes a planned invoice factoring service that would provide immediate payment against invoices, and an EAC Profile verification service.

Traction

The Android app reports more than 10,000 downloads as of its August 2026 listing; the iOS app has too few ratings for an aggregate score to display. A third-party directory lists the company as operating with 11-50 employees and $120K in tracked funding. Counters for user signups, loads posted or covered, and trucks posted appear on the company website without populated values. Customer testimonials attributed to a broker, a shipper, and a transporter are published on the site.

Latest developments

The mobile applications have been iterated frequently, with the iOS app reaching version 3.9.1 and including improvements to the EAC Profile and Swahili language support; the Android app was most recently updated in August 2026 and shows more than 10,000 downloads. The company promotes an AI logistics assistant called Litas, and describes the Transportation Relationship Manager and the invoice factoring service as in development or upcoming.