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building a transportation business hunting for air
Meet Erik Roelevink, founder of airhunters, a company offering transport solutions that aren’t just more sustainable, but also considerably cheaper. I met Erik earlier this year, when we were both part of the same panel on sustainable innovation. When we found out we were both attending the 360 inspiration event with Richard Branson and Al Gore, we met for drinks and for an interview about abundance, transportation and entrepreneurship for change.
read more on changeincontext.comairhunters signs mega deal!
MegaGroup and airhunters prolonged their cooperation by sealing a new deal for the coming three years.
Read moreairhunters finalist for the NT Marketing Award!
A lot of attention is paid to sales in the transport & logistics sector. However, recently marketing has become more important. In order to reinforce this, the first NT Marketing Award will be presented at the Marketing in Transport Conference. A new annual tradition for B2B marketing in the transport sector.
Read moreairhunters moved offices
Airhunters moved its offices to Industriepark Kleefse Waard, a historical industrial environment where sustainable-oriented entrepreneurs inspire each other.
Read moreairhunters trucking experience 2015
On 12 September ‘the big day’ finally arrived: our customer day with ‘fitted’ ingredients: 5 driving schools, 7 trucks, 25 guests, 1 caricaturist and a barista! We talk about transport with our customers on a daily basis, but few have actually driven a truck. All the more reason for airhunters to organise a trucking experience!
Read moreairhunters provides minister of good ideas!
Good ideas I am personally committed to are, not completely unexpected, based on the sharing economy. Besides airhunters, which focuses on sharing trucks, and Mywheels, sharing cars that are inactive during the day, I am thinking about starting the SHARE FACTORY.
Read moreairhunters is a certified training company
It would be a shame to keep our knowledge and working method to ourselves, that’s why we’re also a certified training company.
airhunters energy neutral with add-ons
Sustainability is deeply rooted in airhunters’ views. That’s why we choose to heat our offices energy neutral by means of solar panels. But we take it one step further. We organise the transport ourselves and do this sustainably by cargopooling.
Read moreairhunters chooses TMS in the cloud
The young, dynamic shipping company airhunters, known for its flexibility and creative transport solutions, continues to professionalise by using a Transport Management System.
Read morewho wants to start cargopooling?
airhunters wants to increase the load factorAirhunters is a young company originally situated in Velp, Gelderland, that exactly does what its company name implies: hunting for air. Air in semitrailers that is, because the 15 per cent air left over in trucks is an eyesore to entrepreneurs Erik Roelevink and Hans van Wieringen. “Cargopooling offers a solution and an advantage to shipper, haulier and the environment.”
Read moreon the hunt for six thousand empty trailers
Hauliers don’t like to talk about it, but there are about six thousand empty trucks on the Dutch roads every day. We can compare that to a 90 km traffic jam. Erik Roelevink and Hans van Wieringen search for those empty spaces of the transport sector on behalf of their customers.
Read moreairhunters fills ‘air’ in trucks
Two former Wim Bosman managers started the company airhunters, a new service provider focused on cleverly filling up empty spaces in trucks. “We believe that transportation can be arranged smarter and more sustainable.”
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