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Capital Transport shipping and tracking

Capital Transport is Australia’s largest privately owned courier and taxi truck business, running same day and on demand work out of the five mainland capitals. FreightExchange gives your team one screen to quote, book and track it, alongside every other carrier on your account.

Ship Capital Transport straight from your ERP or online store.

Most Capital Transport consignments start life as an order that already exists in another system. FreightExchange connects to your ERP, CRM or online store and builds the consignment from that order, so the rate, the label and the manifest happen in one step instead of three.

Why FreightExchange?
Eliminate manual steps & human errors.
Why FreightExchange?
Get visibility on all costs and shipments.
Why FreightExchange?
Scale shipping without adding headcount.
Why FreightExchange?
Integrate platforms and streamline data.

Use your own Capital Transport account, or ours.

There are two ways to ship Capital Transport through FreightExchange. Bring your own account, which needs a FreightExchange subscription and keeps the rates you have already negotiated with the carrier. Or book on our broker rates, which is worth doing when they beat what you are paying now. Booking, labels and tracking work the same either way.

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When to use Capital Transport

Use Capital Transport when the delivery has to happen today inside a capital city, or when the item is too big or awkward for a parcel network. It is a same day courier and taxi truck operation rather than an overnight freight network.

Founded in 1990 and privately owned, it works from offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, covering metropolitan, regional and interstate work. The fleet runs from motorcycles and courier vans through to trays, taxi trucks, and crane and hydraulic tailgate vehicles.

What Capital Transport carries

The on demand fleet is sized by the job. A van takes cartons and loose items up to 25kg each and 125kg in total. A half tonne van takes a pallet up to 500kg. A one tonne van takes two pallets up to 1,000kg. Above that the work moves to trays and taxi trucks.

Two services matter beyond straight courier work. Home delivery moves big and bulky retail goods such as whitegoods, brown goods and furniture into a customer’s home. Permanent vehicle hire puts a dedicated vehicle on your account with booking, routing and despatch support behind it.

Capital Transport also runs a national warehousing and distribution network offering tailored 3PL and 4PL solutions.

Complete FreightExchange Integration

Put Capital Transport into one view of your freight.

Whether you bring your own Capital Transport account or book on our rates, your warehouse gets one place to book, one set of labels and manifests, and one record of what each consignment actually cost. See the full carrier panel.

Frequently asked questions

Will the warehouse staff use a separate system provided by Capital Transport or FreightExchange?

The default Capital Transport integration lets anyone in your business get quotes, make bookings and track shipments inside FreightExchange, for Capital Transport and for the other carriers on your account. Your warehouse team does not need a second system.

How is shipping documentation created and managed?

Shipping documentation like labels and manifests can all be generated through FreightExchange instantly upon creating a booking. All documents from Capital Transport can then be emailed or pushed to your system via easy and free integrations.

How do bespoke business rules work with Capital Transport?

FreightExchange has a powerful business rules engine that lets you decide which carrier and service to use in different shipping scenarios. You can also bypass those rules and send a consignment to Capital Transport directly.

Can FreightExchange be configured to cater our bespoke use case?

One of our differentiators is our modern and open, RESTful API. Using the latest and greatest technology while also being constructed in a framework using REST allows FreightExchange to be a flexible and extensible tool that is highly configurable for Capital Transport or any other courier that can talk to web services.