Haulage and Transport CRM
In haulage the price is given verbally on the phone, and the crew and vehicle allocation is done on paper in the morning. Two jobs falling on the same day are only noticed as the vehicles are pulling out.
The distance, volume, floor and extra services entered at the survey are fields on the quote line; when the quote changes, the job's plan changes too. Crew and vehicle sit on the same record.
- Enter the distance, goods volume, floor situation and extra services onto the quote line after the survey; have the total calculated from the price list
- Record the incoming request and produce the quote from the same record; run home removals, office moves and intercity jobs separately
- Assign the right crew and vehicle to each moving job, and see clashes falling on the same day in advance
- Record moving-day status updates and keep the customer informed as they happen
- Send quote, date confirmation and moving-day notifications over WhatsApp
| Request and Quote Management | An incoming request is opened as a record; the job type (home removal, office, intercity) is a field, and the quote is produced under the same record. |
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| Crew and Vehicle Assignment | A job is a record with crew and vehicle fields; because jobs falling on the same day appear side by side in the calendar, a clash is noticed in advance. |
| Operations Tracking | Moving-day updates are written onto the same job record; the information going to the customer goes from that record, and who told them what and when leaves a trace. |
| Price Calculation | Distance, volume, floor and extra services are fields on the quote line; unit prices come from the price list, and the total comes out on the quote card. |
| Goods Inventory and Delivery Report | The list of goods drawn up at the survey is the line items of the job; the person taking delivery signs on the signature screen in the mobile application, the damage photo is attached to the same record, and a damage claim raised later is compared against those lines. |
What determines cost in this business is not the distance but the details discussed at the survey: which floor, is there a lift, how many m³ of goods are coming out, is special handling needed for something like a piano or a safe. If that information stays in the head of the person who gave the quote, the crew going out to site turns up prepared for a different job; and missing equipment or a missing pair of hands puts the bill on the company.
In Rapitek CRM the data entered at the survey is the very set of fields that produces the price, so when the quote changes, the plan of the job changes too. Because which recommendation the customer came through sits on the same card, the share of work coming in by referral is discussed at the end of the period from the record rather than from guesswork.
