Trucksters

Trucksters is a road freight transport operator that moves full-truckload (FTL) long-haul shipments using a relay model. Along fixed logistics corridors it maintains relay points where an incoming truck exchanges its semi-trailer with another truck, so the load continues moving while each driver returns toward home rather than resting en route. The company states this approach roughly halves transit times for clients compared with conventional long-haul trucking.

Operations are supported by a routing algorithm that assigns client goods and optimises routes to reduce transit time and empty running, and by sensorised semi-trailers that capture data such as temperature, location and door openings. This telemetry is surfaced to customers through a Customer Portal in real time. Trucksters also frames its model around driver working conditions, citing more time at home, job and payment stability, and positions itself against the industry's driver shortage while expanding its fleet.

Business model

Trucksters sells long-haul full-truckload freight transport to shipper companies, operating the relay network, fleet and semi-trailers itself and offering clients route booking plus real-time shipment data through a customer portal. Carriers and drivers can also apply to join its fleet.

Traction

Reported figures include approximately 1,000 full truckloads per month, 8,000 relays in the last year, more than 700 client companies and 3.5x year-on-year growth, alongside plans to triple fleet size.

Latest developments

Trucksters is introducing electric trucks into its fleet and has set electrified route targets for 2023 as part of a stated move toward zero-emission logistics routes.