4 Apr 2025

Online freight moving business hopes to fill empty lorries

From Nine To Noon, 9:40 am on 4 April 2025
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An online freight moving service is hoping it can fill up lorries that at the moment are making trips empty or only partly filled. Industry estimates are that 9 out of 20  heavy transport vehicles on the road are running empty.

A website based out of Wanaka, GoBackLoad, hopes to help fill up some of that spare capacity by giving people the opportunity to list their load for free while approved carriers can bid for the work.

Kathryn speaks to the owner of GoBackLoad, Jim Turner.