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Logistics web design case studies

Three logistics operations, three different problems, and what we built to fix each one. What is described here is scope — what the site had to do and what went into it.

Work / Case studies

No percentage claims are attached to any project on this page. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, and every agency in this industry publishes the same ones.

  1. DSI TransportationTrucking
  2. Accurate Freight SystemsFreight brokerage
  3. Alvy DeliversCourier and last-mile

What do logistics web design case studies actually show?

A useful logistics case study shows three things: what the operation does, what the previous website failed to do for it, and what was built instead. The results that matter in freight are narrow — RFQ submissions from shippers you would actually want, organic visibility for lane, equipment and service terms, and a site that survives the credibility check a buyer runs before they call. Everything else is vanity.

What a useful case study does not need is a headline percentage. Almost every agency in this industry publishes the same unattributed lead-increase figure, which is why that figure now carries no information at all. What tells you whether an agency can help is whether the problem they describe sounds like yours, and whether the fix they built is specific enough that they clearly understood the operation. Read the three below on that basis.

Projects

Three builds, and what each one had to solve

Named clients, named verticals, described by scope. Each links through to how we approach that segment generally.

Trucking

DSI Transportation

An asset-based carrier whose website said less about the fleet than a load board listing did. Shippers arriving from search had no way to see what equipment was available, what lanes ran regularly, or whether the operating authority was current — so the enquiries that did arrive were unqualified and the qualified ones went elsewhere.

What we built

  • Fleet and equipment pages, so each trailer type is a page a shipper can land on
  • Operating authority, safety rating and insurance rendered as indexable text
  • A structured enquiry flow that captures lane, equipment and timing up front
  • Service-lane pages built around the corridors the carrier actually runs

Freight brokerage

Accurate Freight Systems

A brokerage running two completely different acquisition motions — shippers looking for coverage and carriers looking for freight — through one contact form. Every enquiry landed in the same inbox and had to be sorted by hand before anyone could act on it.

What we built

  • Separate shipper and carrier paths, each with its own page and its own form
  • Carrier onboarding capture: authority, insurance and equipment collected at first contact
  • Bond status, vetting standards and coverage explained where the objection occurs
  • Service and mode pages so FTL, LTL and specialised freight rank separately

Courier and last-mile

Alvy Delivers

A same-day courier competing on responsiveness with a website that could not communicate it. Service zones, cutoff times and what could actually be picked up within the hour were invisible, which meant every one of those questions arrived by phone before a booking could happen.

What we built

  • Service-zone and cutoff-time pages that answer the timing question before the call
  • Mobile-first booking, because the majority of same-day requests start on a phone
  • Tracking and customer-portal integration surfaced from the site
  • Delivery-type pages — medical, legal, retail resupply — as separate landing points

Scope descriptions only. No performance figure is claimed for any project on this page.

Measurement

What we watch once a site is live

Configured before launch, not after, so there is something to compare against. These four are the ones that decide whether a logistics site is doing its job.

Quote requests, not sessions

Traffic is a means. The number that decides whether a build worked is completed quote requests and RFQ submissions from companies you would want to haul for. We instrument the form, not the pageview.

Lead quality, read by hand

In freight, twenty enquiries can be worth less than two. We look at what came in and whether it matched the lanes, modes and freight profile the site was built to attract — a judgement no dashboard makes for you.

Coverage of the query set

Search Console, against the specific keyword set the sitemap was built from: which lane, equipment and service queries the site now appears for at all, and which are still missing a page.

Calls and direction requests

For carriers, movers and couriers with a physical footprint, the Google Business Profile is often the higher-volume channel. Calls, direction requests and profile-to-site clicks are tracked alongside the website.

Why logistics companies end up rebuilding rather than tweaking

A generalist agency will not know why a freight brokerage needs separate shipper and carrier paths, or why a trucking company has to display its DOT and MC numbers above the fold rather than in the footer. Those are not styling decisions. They are the difference between a site that sorts its own enquiries and one that hands your dispatcher a triage job every morning, and between a carrier a broker's compliance team can clear in thirty seconds and one they skip.

Every project starts the same way regardless of vertical: understand the niche, look at who currently ranks for the terms that matter, and work out what the buyer is trying to establish before they make contact. The sitemap comes out of that, and the build comes out of the sitemap. It is why a drayage company website ends up organised around ports, chassis and IPI routing while a moving company website ends up organised around licensing, crews and a quote flow — same method, entirely different site.

The rebuild is usually a search problem before it is a design one

The most common reason a logistics site under-performs is not that it looks dated. It is that the operation runs forty lanes, six equipment types and three terminals, and the website has one services page that lists them in a sentence. There is nothing for a specific query to match, so brokers and load boards rank for the carrier's own work. That is an architecture failure, and no amount of restyling fixes it — which is why the case for a rebuild is normally made in Search Console rather than in a design review. The discipline behind that is SEO for logistics companies.

What we will tell you before you commit

If the honest answer is that your current site is fine and the problem is elsewhere — no Google Business Profile, no follow-up process, a phone nobody answers after four — we will say so, because a rebuild will not fix any of those and you will rightly blame the rebuild. The website is $2,450 flat, and anything outside it is agreed before the quote goes out. The pricing page sets out exactly what that covers.

Questions

Questions about our work and our results

Why are there no percentage results on this page?

Because we cannot source them, and an unverifiable number is worse than no number. The previous version of this page carried lead-increase, efficiency and response-time percentages with nothing behind any of them — the same round figures every agency in this industry publishes. We deleted them rather than reprint them. Where a client's own analytics support a specific result and the client is happy for it to be published, it will go back on this page with the source named and the date range stated next to it.

How do you measure whether a logistics website is working?

By completed quote requests from companies worth quoting, not by traffic. Concretely: form submissions and their quality read by hand against the freight profile you wanted, calls and direction requests from the Google Business Profile, and coverage in Search Console against the specific lane, equipment and service queries the sitemap was built from. All of it is configured before launch so there is a baseline to compare against — a site with no measurement in place before go-live can never prove anything afterwards.

Can I see work from my specific part of logistics?

The three projects published here cover trucking, freight brokerage and courier work. We also build for freight forwarders and NVOCCs, customs brokerages, fulfillment centers and 3PLs, drayage operators, moving companies, and air and ocean charter services — the industries page sets out what changes between them. If you want to see something closer to your own vertical than what is published here, ask and we will walk you through relevant work directly.

Can I speak to one of your clients before I sign?

Yes, ask. References are arranged with the client's agreement rather than listed publicly, because most operators would rather not have their lead volume discussed on a competitor's screen. Tell us your vertical and roughly what you are trying to fix and we will put you in touch with someone who had the same problem.

What does a case study actually include when you publish one?

What the operation is, what the previous site failed to do, what we built, and what we measured. The failure is the part most agencies skip and the part that tells you whether the work is relevant to you: a brokerage drowning in unsorted enquiries and a carrier invisible for its own lanes need opposite fixes, and a case study that only shows a finished screenshot tells you neither.

How long before a new logistics website starts producing leads?

The conversion side moves first. If the previous site was burying the phone number, hiding the service area or making the quote form hard to submit from a phone, that improvement shows up in the enquiries you already had traffic for — within weeks, not quarters. The search side is slower: new lane, equipment and service pages need time to be crawled, ranked and to accumulate the signals that hold a position. Anyone promising you a ranking date is guessing.

Do you only build new sites, or do you take on redesigns?

Most of this work is redesigns. The critical part of a logistics redesign is not the design — it is preserving what the old site already earned: auditing which URLs bring traffic, permanently redirecting every path that changes, rewriting the pages that rank rather than deleting them, and correcting the structured data on the way through. How we run an engagement is set out on the about page.

Next step

Tell us what your site is failing to do

Send us the URL and what you wish it produced. You will get a straight read on whether the problem is the build, the search architecture or something else entirely.