A new freight and transport exchange has teamed up with transport software specialist Journease to make life easier for businesses in the transport industry. The recently launched west Wales-based Vehotrans freight and transport exchange has already gained nearly 500 members and is growing every day.

The European-wide exchange, offered free for the first six months to new customers, is now in partnership with Bristol-based Journease, in a move to make things easier for courier companies, owner-drivers and warehouse operatives.

Journease is a software system for transport companies – offering job quoting/booking, route planning and invoicing, mobile data capture, and web booking.

Vehotrans Director Lukas Gamble said the partnership would benefit both businesses as well as making life easier for potential customers of Vehotrans.

“We did this in order to add value to our own product by giving our potential new members an easier way to use our system by integrating their current business processes with our own system so they could easily publish their loads and jobs onto our system without creating extra work.

“It’s a way to attract customers to use our system; it’s just keeping the process simple, they don’t even have to go and log on to our website. Once they add a job on Journease it’s just a case of pressing a button and their jobs are on Vehotrans; it gives them better exposure and fulfilment.

“It works for everybody; it’s attractive for Journease customers, they can get better coverage for their jobs without any extra work on their behalf, and it also pushes extra work for our members; it’s a win-win.”

Managing Director of Journease Tim Bryant said: “The benefit for us is our customers can fulfil their jobs in a most efficient manner.

“It’s offering more options for my customers; there’s no financial benefit for us, no-one’s charging anything.

“It raises the profile of our software; it’s a mutual benefit.”

The use of the partnership to make life easier for existing and future customers fits in with Vehotrans’ existing ethos of flexibility.

Vehotrans is built around easy to use smart phone technology applications, which can be used with Apple, Android and Blackberry phones, complete with live mapping for loads and driver availability.

The decision to approach Journease came after speaking to customers about how to make Vehotrans more user-friendly.

“We were actually in discussion with one of our potential members,” said Lukas, adding: “He happened to mention he used Journease and thought it was really good; he suggested we might have a chat with them.

“They were working within logistics technology but in different ways; there were things we could work together on.

“It’s businesses working together for a common goal; we can help each other without competing directly or working against each other.”

Tim echoed his views: “Vehotrans does what it does well and we do what we do well; Journease has been around for 13 yrears with constant updating of the system, all from our customers’ suggestions. Our USP is the functionality of the software, the price point and the support we offer; our vision is to become the industry standard.”

Lukas stressed the partnership was all about providing a better deal for the customer.

“We are both independent companies offering different value to our customers in different areas; by working together we are able to provide a better service for both our companies.

“It already has begun to increase membership; we’ve already had some new customers come to us directly from our partnership with Journease.

“I think there will be more partnerships like this in the future. In times that are really difficult we need to be looking at how companies can work together and both thrive; it’s not really a time to isolate yourself and put up walls around your company. If we can work together for our mutual benefit and for our customers then why not?”

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