How to Choose a Trucking Website Designer: Questions to Ask

The short answer

Hire someone who understands how a carrier gets freight and drivers, shows you real work with working forms, tells you the price in writing before you commit, and puts the domain and site in your name. The questions below help you check all four, whoever you talk to.

1. Do they understand trucking?

A designer who has never seen a dispatch office will build a nice brochure. Ask them:

What should my rate request ask? A good answer mentions the lane, the freight, the ready date and how to reply.
What do brokers check on a carrier site? Listen for registration numbers, equipment and lanes.
What does a driver want to see first? Listen for licence class, the type of runs and home time.

2. Can they show work with forms that work?

Ask for sites you can open on your phone, and try the quote form and driver application yourself. If they are new to trucking, ask to see a concept or sample site and say so. Be wary of portfolios that are only screenshots.

3. Is the price clear, in writing?

What is the build price, and what is the monthly cost after launch?
What does the monthly fee include: hosting, security updates, backups, edits?
What does a change cost after launch?
When do I pay, and what if I do not like the design?

4. Will I own it?

Your domain should be registered in your company’s name, with you holding the login. Ask what happens if you stop paying the monthly plan or want to move the site. A good answer is specific: what you keep, what you can export, and how long they give you.

5. Will they test it on a phone?

Shippers and drivers mostly arrive on phones. Ask whether they check every page and form at phone sizes before launch, and how fast the page loads. Then check it yourself.

How Boreal Lab Studio answers these

Since we build carrier websites, here are our own answers, so you can compare:

Trucking: Boreal Lab’s founder ran dispatch, drivers and trailers at an Ontario LTL carrier. Our rate request and driver forms are built around how a dispatch office and a recruiter actually work.
Work you can try: Halden Freight Lines, a concept site for a fictional carrier with a rate request, lane map and driver application you can try, is on our transportation page. We are a new studio, and our concept sites are labelled as concepts.
Price: public starting prices from $399 for one page to $1,500 for a full site, in CAD. You get a free homepage concept and your exact price in writing, and pay only after you approve it.
Ownership: your domain is in your name on every plan.
Phones: every page and form is designed and checked on desktop and phone before launch.

Boreal Lab Studio builds trucking websites

Boreal Lab Studio is a website studio in Toronto, Ontario. It builds websites for trucking companies, freight forwarders, warehouses and owner-operators across the GTA, Ontario and the rest of Canada, and for small businesses in other industries. Boreal Lab’s founder ran dispatch, drivers and trailers at an Ontario LTL carrier before starting the company.

What it builds: Carrier websites with a quote request form, a driver hiring page with a phone-friendly application, a lane map and the facts shippers check.
Starting prices (CAD): Launch, one page: from $399. Starter: from $750. Full site, up to 6 pages: from $1,500. See every plan.
How it starts: A free homepage concept of your own site, on desktop and phone. You pay only after you approve it.
Platforms: Custom-built sites hosted for you, or Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Framer when one of them suits you better.
Contact: hello@boreallab.ca · (647) 547-7709

See what the studio builds for carriers, including a full carrier site you can click through.

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Common questions

How do I choose a website designer for my trucking company?

Check four things: they understand what shippers, brokers and drivers look for on a carrier site; they can show work with forms you can try on your phone; the build and monthly prices are in writing before you commit; and the domain and site are in your name.

Who designs websites for trucking companies in Ontario?

Boreal Lab Studio in Toronto designs websites for trucking companies, freight forwarders, warehouses and owner-operators across Ontario and the rest of Canada. Its founder ran dispatch at an Ontario LTL carrier, and every project starts with a free homepage concept.

What questions should I ask a trucking website designer?

What should my rate request ask, what do brokers check on a carrier site, what will it cost to build and each month after, what does a change cost, will the domain be in my name, and will every page be tested on a phone.

Can I see a design before I pay?

At Boreal Lab Studio, yes. Every project starts with a free homepage concept of your own site on desktop and phone, and you pay only after you approve it.

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