{"id":57,"date":"2026-07-05T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8765\/how-reverse-auctions-cut-shipping-costs-by-up-to-40\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:17:44","slug":"how-reverse-auctions-cut-shipping-costs-by-up-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/how-reverse-auctions-cut-shipping-costs-by-up-to-40\/","title":{"rendered":"How Reverse Auctions Cut Shipping Costs by up to 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, thousands of trucks drive partially empty on return journeys. Industry studies put empty running at roughly 30% of all HGV miles. Reverse-auction marketplaces exist to sell that wasted space \u2014 and the savings go to you.<\/p>\n<h2>How it works<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of phoning three couriers for quotes, you post the job once: what you&#8217;re moving, where from, where to, and when. Carriers then bid <em>against each other<\/em> for the work. Because the lowest sensible bid usually wins, prices trend down instead of up \u2014 the opposite of a traditional quote process.<\/p>\n<h2>Why carriers love it too<\/h2>\n<p>A quote that looks cheap to you can still be profitable for a carrier if your job fills space on a route they were driving anyway. That&#8217;s the backload effect: you&#8217;re not paying for the journey, just the space. Everyone wins except the empty trailer.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting the best price<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Post early.<\/strong> Jobs with a week of lead time attract 2\u20133\u00d7 more bids than same-day requests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be precise.<\/strong> Exact dimensions, weight and access notes remove risk \u2014 and risk is what carriers price in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stay flexible on dates.<\/strong> A \u00b12 day window lets carriers slot you into an existing route.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Check ratings, not just prices.<\/strong> The second-cheapest bid from a 5-star carrier is usually the best value on the board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Post your first job free and watch the bids come in \u2014 most shipments receive their first quote within hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, thousands of trucks drive partially empty on return journeys. Industry studies put empty running at roughly 30% of all HGV miles. Reverse-auction marketplaces exist to sell that wasted space \u2014 and the savings go to you. How it works Instead of phoning three couriers for quotes, you post the job once: what you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/shipme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}