Create your own exclusive freight exchange
If you prefer to work with familiar transport service providers, you can publish your freight offers within your own transport partner network: the TIMOCOM Closed Freight Exchange. Your freight offers will then be visible exclusively to your selected partners, but you can also make them public in the TIMOCOM Freight Exchange if needed.
What are the advantages of a closed freight exchange?
Commission only those business partners you already trust. This helps you build long-term partnerships.
Instead of dealing with irrelevant enquiries, rely on trusted business partners you no longer need to verify.
All offers at a glance: save time when choosing your transport partners and send rejections automatically.
By offering exclusive freight and vehicle space within your network, you can negotiate better terms.
As the initiator, you can freely define access rights and collaboration rules. In addition, you will receive a monthly report on performance.
Stay flexible: if your freight is not assigned within a specified time, you can automatically publish it on the Spot Market.
How Transport Assignment Works in the TIMOCOM Closed Freight Exchange
As usual, create a detailed freight offer including all order details. In the section "Limit publication," select your Closed Freight Exchange.
Only your known transport partners, whom you have previously added, are included in the Closed Freight Exchange. When you publish the freight offer in your Closed Freight Exchange, your preferred service providers automatically receive a notification about your freight offer.
50% of all freight is awarded via the Closed Freight Exchange!
If necessary:
Combine reliability and flexibility. If none of your preferred transport partners respond to your request, you can automatically publish your freight offer in the open freight exchange after a time period of your choosing.
82% of all freight is allocated on the open freight exchange within 15 minutes!
TIMOCOM Closed Freight Exchange: What Our Customers Say
The Closed Freight Exchange gives TRANSFRIGOROUTE members the assurance of collaborating with 'known experts' and thus promotes cooperation among each other.
Roger Schwarz, Managing Director of TRANSFRIGOROUTE
With the Closed freight exchange, we can selectively choose partners who meet our standards. This not only saves time but also gives us the assurance that the transports will run smoothly.
Stefan Aninger , Managing Director of Aninger Schnelltransporte
Frequently Asked Questions from Customers about the TIMOCOM Closed Freight Exchange
An important difference is the integration of the entire TIMOCOM network. Since many transport companies are already TIMOCOM customers, getting started is very easy and requires no additional IT resources. The payment system is very transparent. Furthermore, the platform offers flexible deployment options.
The typical use case is the awarding of transports to service providers whose quality standards are already known from previous collaboration. All of them are contacted simultaneously – without the need for an email distribution list – via the Closed Freight Exchange. This allows you to reach your preferred transport partners first, and if none of them have available capacity within a defined period, you can fall back on the public spot market.
In this way, the Closed Freight Exchange helps you maintain high quality standards while remaining flexible.
In the freight entry, you as the customer will find the selection option when creating a new freight offer. Members of a Closed Freight Exchange will find the corresponding list in the freight search, where an appropriate filter can be applied.
You can add several thousand participants to your Closed Freight Exchange. The technical limit is currently in the low five-digit range – we are working on expanding this further.
Yes, you can create multiple closed freight exchanges and even connect them with each other, so that requests are initially forwarded to the first, then to the second, third, and so on. Additionally, automatic forwarding to the spot market is always possible.
If the participants of the Closed Freight Exchange are TIMOCOM users, the setup takes only a few hours after the contract is signed. If you also wish to add transport service providers who are not TIMOCOM users, they must first undergo onboarding – in this case, the setup takes several days.
We leave the decision up to you. Based on experience, the easiest way to ensure smooth communication is for you to inform the participants independently. We are happy to support you with onboarding materials for your transport service providers. Upon request, we can also take over communication with the hauliers – provided , they are TIMOCOM users.
Frequently Asked Questions from Contractors about the TIMOCOM Closed Freight Exchange
Currently, there is no fixed application process. Interested parties should contact TIMOCOM directly. As a rule, the owners of the Closed Freight Exchanges bring their own service providers.
We recommend that you tick the box in the notification settings for "Messages about new offers in a Closed Freight Exchange" to receive. You will then receive an email notification for every new exclusive offer. If this is not desired, you can set the filter for your Closed Freight Exchange via the freight search to view the offers in the TIMOCOM Road Freight Marketplace.
Participation in a Closed freight exchange is free of charge for the service provider. The initiator bears the costs.