A website for your transport firm, built before you pay for it.
I build websites for hauliers, logistics firms and coach operators in Worcestershire and across the UK. Your licence and what it allows, every vehicle you run, and a quote form that asks for weight, dimensions, both postcodes and the date, so the first email back is a price. I build yours first, finished: £650 if you want it, a written quote first if it needs to be bigger, and nothing if you don’t.
£0 to see it finished
£650 for the website
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I’m Archie Spencer. I build every site myself.
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“It's clean, looks professional and is easy to find your way around, which is exactly what I wanted.”
Real sites, live now. Open any of them.
There is no transport firm among my live sites yet. That is why yours is built first: you judge your own site, not a promise. The nearest match is HERU in Bidford-on-Avon: twenty-three pages, one enquiry form with eleven enquiry types, and every line held to agreed terminology.
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Livemyheru.com
HERU
Building infrastructure, Bidford-on-Avon
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Livestratworthadvisory.com
Stratworth Advisory
Exit planning and growth advisory, Bidford-on-Avon
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Livepaularmstrongfitness.co.uk
Paul Armstrong Fitness
Personal trainer, Alcester
“He didn’t simply build what we asked for; he understood the problem we were trying to solve and designed the website around it.”
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Archie recently designed and built the new website for HERU Technologies, and I was extremely impressed by both the quality of the finished site and the way he approached what was a surprisingly complex brief.
One of the biggest challenges was language. HERU operates in an area where the distinction between an authorised material intentionally retained for a further purpose and something simply discarded can be important. We therefore had detailed legal and regulatory considerations behind the terminology used throughout the website. At the same time, we absolutely did not want the site to read like a legal or technical document.
Archie understood that challenge very quickly. He worked through the wording, structure and user journey so that a first-time visitor can understand what HERU is and what it does, while ensuring that the terminology remains disciplined and consistent throughout the site.
That balance between simplicity for the visitor and complexity behind the scenes was, for me, one of the strongest aspects of his work. He didn’t simply build what we asked for; he understood the problem we were trying to solve and designed the website around it.
The result is a website that represents HERU far better: clean, contemporary and easy to navigate, but with considerable thought behind what appears on the surface to be very simple communication. I would have no hesitation recommending Archie for a business looking for someone who can combine web development with genuine problem-solving.
I’ll build it first. You decide after.
Tell me the firm’s name, what the licence allows and what you run. I send you three homepage designs within a day, then build the whole website in the one you pick, every page written, usually in about 2 days, and send you a link. Look at it in your own time, and show the owner and anyone else with a say.
If you want it, it’s £650: a £162.50 deposit once you’re happy with the design, and the rest within 7 days of it going live. A bigger site, built around stock, listings or several locations, is quoted in writing before I build. If you don’t want it, say so and it comes down. You pay nothing, and I won’t follow it up.
For the owner
- Your domain (your web address, like yourbusiness.co.uk) is bought in your name, on your card. About £10 a year, paid to the company you buy it from, not to me. I send you a one-page guide to buying it.
- Already have a domain? The new site goes live on it, and your email is not touched.
- Every login is handed over in writing once it is paid for, and the hosting moves to an account in your name at no cost. Nothing is locked to me.
- No monthly fee unless you choose monthly care: £29 a month for up to five changes, stop any time.
- If you change your mind after saying yes, the 25% is kept for the work done. If I can’t get it live for a reason on my side, it comes back in full.
- You pay by bank transfer to the account named on the invoice. My bank details will never change by message.
- Your business information is kept confidential and used only to build your website. The full terms are on this site.
Already have a website? When I rebuilt Stratworth Advisory’s website, I measured both home pages the same way on the same day: the old WordPress one took 7.4 seconds to show its main content, the new one 0.8 seconds. How it was measured
What transport and logistics firms need from a website.
Your operator’s licence number, and which type it is
A transport manager checking you out will look you up before he rings, and the licence is a public record, so there is nothing to hide by leaving it off. Put the number on the site, say whether it is restricted, standard national or standard international, and say how many vehicles and trailers you are authorised for. It takes somebody ten seconds to verify and it separates you from the man with a Transit calling himself a haulier. The type matters as much as the number: restricted covers your own goods only, so if that is what you hold, half the enquiries a vague site brings in are ones you cannot legally take.
A fleet list with the kit on each vehicle, and how far you run
The first question is always whether you have the vehicle, and a photograph of a curtainsider on a motorway does not answer it. List what you run: 7.5 tonne box with a tail lift, 18 tonne curtainsider, artic with a moffett on the back, HIAB and the reach it has, temperature controlled and the range it holds. Put the bed length, the payload and the internal height against each one, because the man with a 6.2 metre length of steel is measuring before he rings. Then say how far you run, whether the drivers do nights out, and whether you are on a pallet network and which one.
A quote form that asks the four things you need to price it
Weight, dimensions, collection and delivery postcodes, and the date. Without those four nobody can price anything, and a form offering name, email and your message guarantees two more emails before you can. Ask them as separate boxes, because separate boxes get filled in. Then the ones that decide which vehicle goes: how many pallets and what size, whether there is a forklift at both ends or a tail lift is needed, whether any of it is hazardous, and roughly what the load is worth. Asking properly also filters. Somebody who will not put a weight in was never going to book anything.
FORS and CLOCS, named correctly, with the level you hold
If you want construction work, the main contractor’s site rules decide whether you get through the gate, and they are usually written round FORS and CLOCS. Put the level up, Bronze, Silver or Gold, with the accreditation number and the expiry date against it, and say plainly if you are working towards the next level rather than wording it so it reads as though you already have it. Do the same with anything else real: DVSA Earned Recognition, ADR and which classes your drivers hold, your upper tier waste carrier registration if you move waste. A scheme’s name got slightly wrong in front of a compliance manager ends the conversation.
What you are liable for if a load is damaged, said before the job
Most domestic haulage moves under the RHA conditions of carriage, which cap what you pay out against the weight of the goods rather than what they are worth. A customer who has never read them assumes a full trailer of stock is covered for the value of the stock. It is not, and he finds that out on the worst day of the year. A short page saying which conditions you trade under, what your goods in transit cover is, what is excluded, and that anything above it wants declaring or insuring separately costs you nothing and stops an argument you cannot win afterwards. International work under CMR wants saying too.
The passenger side kept separate, and what a school will ask you
A freight manager and a mum organising a club trip want different pages, so split the two at the top and keep them split all the way down. On the passenger side say which PSV operator’s licence you hold, that the drivers hold category D or D1 with a current Driver CPC, and whether they are enhanced DBS checked, because no school books a coach without asking. Give the seat counts, 16, 33, 49, 57, say whether every seat has a belt, and be straight about wheelchair access and PSVAR. Then a booking form asking numbers, pick-up point, date, out and back times.
What usually goes wrong.
Already got a website? Check your current one
Nearly every haulage site opens the same way.
A photograph of a lorry on a motorway at dusk, the words reliable and competitive, and nothing underneath either of them. No licence number anywhere on the site. No fleet list, so a customer cannot tell whether you own a moffett or have ever hired one. Nothing saying what you will not carry, so you keep taking calls about house moves and horses.
The contact page is a name box, an email box and a message box. Everything that decides the price, weight, dimensions, both postcodes, the date, has to be dragged out afterwards across two or three emails, and by the time you have it the pallet has gone with the firm that answered first. The passenger side is usually worse: a stock photograph of a coach, no seat counts, nothing about belts or wheelchair access, and a phone number that a school office rings at eleven in the morning while the man who answers it is driving.
Then the neglect. Accreditation badges with no number and no date, still up two years after the certificate ran out. A news page that stops in 2017. Pages that have never been laid out to work away from a desk, which is where a transport manager is when he needs a truck for tomorrow morning. Good yards, good drivers and clean licences, all sitting behind a website that gives a customer no reason to choose them over the next one.
Fair questions, answered plainly.
What transport and logistics firms ask before they get in touch, with straight answers.
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Fair questions
Should our operator’s licence be on the website?
Yes. It is a public record, so put the number on the site and say which type it is and how many vehicles and trailers you are authorised for.
What should a haulage quote form ask?
The four things you need to price it, as separate boxes: weight, dimensions, collection and delivery postcodes, and the date. Then how many pallets, and what loading there is at each end.
Can one website cover haulage and coaches?
Yes, split at the top and kept separate all the way down, because a freight manager and someone organising a club trip want different pages.
How much does a transport firm’s website cost?
£0 to see it. £650 for the website built and live on your own domain: £162.50 when you say yes and £487.50 within 7 days of it going live. Or £900 with a year of changes, up to five a month. A one-page website is £350. A bigger site, built around stock, listings or a catalogue, is quoted in writing before I build.
How long does it take?
Three homepage designs within a day, then usually about 2 days to build. Then you look at it in your own time, before deciding anything. Once you say yes, it goes live within 3 working days of your last change, and within 14 days at most.
Who owns the website?
You do, once it is paid for. The domain is in your name from the start, and the hosting, the files and every login are handed over in writing.
What’s the catch?
Here is everything it can cost you. If it’s a no, nothing. If it’s a yes, 25% to go ahead: it is kept if you change your mind before the site goes live, and refunded in full if I can’t get it live for a reason on my side. The rest is due within 7 days of it going live. Your domain is about £10 a year, paid by you. Changes after it goes live are £50 for up to five, unless you have the year of changes or monthly care, and you send them to me: there is no editor to log into. And nobody can promise you a place on Google, me included.
Is there anything to sign?
Nothing to see it. If you want it, I send an order form that sets out the pages, what goes on each one and the price. A reply saying “confirmed” is enough, and no signature is needed. The terms are on this site.
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Your business name, what you do and where. That is enough to start. I build it, send you the link, and it costs you nothing to see it.
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I reply within 24 hours. Within a day I send you three homepage designs. Pick one and I build the whole website, usually in about 2 days. Nothing is payable unless you want it.
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