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Finding and bidding on loads

The marketplace is where you find work. It’s public — you can browse it logged out — but bidding needs a confirmed email and a paid subscription.

Without one, opening any load shows “Subscribe to view load details” and a Subscribe button in place of the load and the bid form. You can still see the cards on the marketplace; you just can’t open one.

Where to find it

In the app: Marketplace → the Loads & backloads tab. Open a card to reach the load detail at /marketplace/loads/{id}.

What you’ll see

Each load card shows:

  • Route — pickup → delivery, with the pickup and delivery dates.
  • Cargo — type, weight, required vehicle.
  • Price — a green Fixed price badge with the rate, or Budget if the shipper published one alongside open bidding.
  • Cross-border — an amber badge when origin and destination countries differ.
  • Load or Backload — backloads are return legs posted by other carriers.

Bidding on an open load

  1. Open the load — it carries an Open bid badge.
  2. In the Submit a bid card enter your Quote (ZMW), a Pickup ETA and a Delivery ETA, and a message.
  3. Click Submit bid.

ETAs are read in Zambian time (CAT), so type the wall-clock time you mean.

You get one bid per load. A second attempt returns “You have already placed a bid on this load.” — negotiate on the existing thread instead of starting a new one. Once the shipper’s bidding deadline passes you’ll see “Bidding has closed for this load.”

Counter-offers

If the shipper counters, your bid card becomes Your negotiation and you can:

  • Accept counter — the load is booked immediately at the countered price.
  • Counter back — send your own price and note; the thread continues.

Offers expire after 6 hours without a response, in either direction. An expired offer reads “This offer expired (no response within 6h).” and you’ll need to start a new bid.

Taking a fixed-price load

A fixed-price load has no negotiation. Click Accept fixed price (ZMW N) and it’s yours — first come, first served. If someone beat you to it you’ll get “This load was just booked by another carrier.”

After you win

A green Booking confirmed panel appears for both parties with the agreed price and a View trip button. From there the trip runs through Deliveries and proof of delivery.

Backloads

A backload is a return-leg load. You can bid on backloads posted by other carriers exactly as above — or post your own empty return legs so shippers come to you. See Posting backloads and routes.

Tips

  • Post your routes. Bidding is reactive; a posted route gets you a notification the moment a matching load appears.
  • Cross-border loads need clearance. Without it you can’t bid or accept, and the matcher skips you silently. See Cross-border clearance.