Your fleet
What stays with your trucks
- Core lanes your fleet runs profitably
- Your drivers and their home time
- Your customers’ standards
- Your dispatch team and its plan
- Your equipment, busy on the right lanes
Private fleet support
Extend your capacity without expanding your fleet: overflow, uncovered lanes and recovery loads, with no added trucks, drivers or overhead.
Built for fleet managers
An extension of your transportation department.
Your fleet is sized for a normal week. When freight outruns your trucks, we cover the difference. You add capacity without adding tractors, trailers or drivers to your books.
Private fleet support fits if you have:
- More freight than trucks during peak weeks
- Promotions or product launches that spike volume
- Lanes your fleet can’t run profitably
- Trucks running empty on the backhaul
- Driver shortages or units out of service
- One-off recovery loads that can’t wait
Steady volume on the same lanes? See dedicated transportation
Situations we cover
Where your fleet runs short.
Seasonal peaks
Holiday, harvest and back-to-school weeks when volume outruns trucks.
Promotions
Promo freight to DCs and stores on top of normal replenishment.
Production increases
Extra outbound when the plant adds a shift or a line.
New customer launches
Start a new account before you add trucks to serve it.
Uncovered lanes
Lanes outside your network, or too thin to staff a driver.
Difficult backhauls
Return lanes that leave your trucks running empty miles.
Driver or equipment shortfalls
Drivers on leave, a tractor in the shop, a trailer out of service.
Recovery loads
A unit breaks down or a pickup gets missed. We re-cover the load.
One-way moves
Moves that would strand your driver far from the domicile.
- Full truckload brokerage
How the work splits
Your fleet keeps the core. We take the overflow.
One transportation department, more capacity. Same receivers. Same rules. More trucks when you need them.
Amber Routes
What we cover
- Overflow above your weekly capacity
- Uncovered lanes outside your network
- Backhaul-heavy lanes that run empty
- Surge weeks for peaks, promos and launches
- Recovery loads when a unit goes down
The process
How we work alongside your fleet.
We set the plan with your transportation team before the surge, not during it. Then overflow moves the way your own loads do.
Share your core and overflow lanes
Which lanes you keep, which overflow, and when surges hit.
Agree how loads are tendered to us
By email or phone, with the load details you already use.
We cover to your standards
Appointments, BOL and POD paperwork and receiver rules go to every truck.
Updates go to your dispatch team
Pickup, in-transit and delivery updates, plus early word on any delay.
We review after each peak
What ran well, what didn’t, and what to plan for the next surge.
Questions
Private fleet support FAQ
Can’t find your answer? Talk to the team that will cover your overflow.
How is this different from handing loads to a broker one at a time?
We start by learning your fleet: core lanes, receivers, appointment rules and dispatch routine. Then we cover overflow as part of that plan, not as one-off loads. Your dispatchers work with one team that already knows the freight.
Can you take loads on short notice?
Often, yes, depending on the lane, equipment and market that day. Call with the pickup time and load details. The more notice we get before a surge week, the more options and better pricing we can line up.
Will you follow our receiver and appointment rules?
Yes. Send your receiver requirements, appointment windows and paperwork rules once. We pass them to the carrier on every load and confirm appointments before the truck is dispatched.
Can you take our backhauls?
Yes. Send the return lanes your fleet can’t fill or can’t run profitably. We cover that freight, so your trucks stay on the lanes that work for them.
How do we tender loads to you?
By email or phone. We agree the details up front: lane, pickup and delivery windows, equipment and reference numbers. Your dispatch team gets a confirmation back on every load.
Private fleet support
Tell us about your overflow.
Share the lanes and peak weeks your fleet can’t cover. We’ll plan capacity that runs to your standards.
Or email Hello@amberroutes.com