Dock 04Rotterdam
Waybill
About
Two trucks in 1998.One promise since.
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask. Everything else we built, the depots, the brokers, the tracking, exists to keep that sentence true.
- Founded1998
- Trucks1,200
- Warehouses9
- Countries41
About
Two trucks in 1998.One promise since.
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask. Everything else we built, the depots, the brokers, the tracking, exists to keep that sentence true.
- Founded1998
- Trucks1,200
- Warehouses9
- Countries41
About
Two trucks in 1998.One promise since.
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask. Everything else we built, the depots, the brokers, the tracking, exists to keep that sentence true.
- Founded1998
- Trucks1,200
- Warehouses9
- Countries41
Since 1998
It began with one truck and a promise to phone first.
Waybill started in 1998 with a single truck on a single lane, Rotterdam to Leeds, and a habit that customers noticed: if the load was going to be late, the driver rang before anyone had to ask.
The company is larger now. The habit is the same. Road, sea, air and rail freight, nine warehouses and our own customs brokers work as one team, on one system, under one tracking number, so that there is always one person who knows where your freight is.
We are still owned by the people who work here, and we still publish our on-time figure every January, including the part we would rather not print.
Saskia de BoerManaging director
- people on the payroll
- 640
- trucks on the road
- 1,200
- ports we sail from
- 38
- warehouses
- 9
The lane so far
From one truck to one number.
19980123456789012345678901234567890123456789
Stop 01Rotterdam → Leeds
One truck, one lane
Henk Waalwijk buys a second-hand tractor unit and runs steel fittings from the Waalhaven to Yorkshire twice a week. The office is the cab.
Stop 02Waalhaven shed 4
The first warehouse
Customers ask where their goods can wait between ships and trucks. We take 6,000 m² by the quay and hire our first night shift.
Stop 0338 ports
A desk for the sea
The road team keeps meeting containers at the gate, so we start booking them ourselves. Within two years we sail from thirty-eight ports.
Stop 04Brokers on the payroll
Customs comes in-house
A load held at a border for a missing code costs more than the broker who would have caught it. We hire six, and the papers are filed before the truck leaves.
Stop 05WB-00001
One tracking number
Road, sea, air, rail and the warehouse move onto one system. A customer follows a pallet from the factory door to the shop floor with a single number.
Stop 061.2 M loads a year
Forty-one countries
Twelve hundred trucks, nine warehouses and the same promise as the first week: your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
1998 · Rotterdam → LeedsThe people
Names you can ask for.
01 / 06Managing director
Saskia de Boer
Started on the night desk in 2003 and still answers the out-of-hours phone one week in eight.
02 / 06Founder
Henk Waalwijk
Drove the first truck. Now chairs the board and inspects the yard every Friday, unannounced.
03 / 06Head of customs
Amara Okafor
Twenty brokers and one rule: the papers are finished before the engine starts.
04 / 06Head of road freight
Rafael Santos
Plans twelve hundred trucks so that fewer than one in ten drives home empty.
05 / 06Head of sea & air
Meera Pillai
Books the space months ahead, and knows which sailing will be blanked before the carrier says so.
06 / 06Yard manager, Rotterdam
Tom Aldridge
Runs forty dock doors and has not lost a pallet since 2017. He keeps count.
Papers in order
Audited, stamped, renewed.
Certificates are dull until a border officer asks for one. Ours are current, and a copy travels with every quote.
Cert · 01
ISO 9001
Quality management
Audited every year, every site
ValidSince 2006Cert · 02
AEO-F
Authorised Economic Operator
Customs simplifications and security
ValidSince 2011Cert · 03
GDP
Good Distribution Practice
Pharma lanes and cold rooms
ValidSince 2016Cert · 04
ISO 14001
Environmental management
Fleet fuel and warehouse energy
ValidSince 2019
Since 1998
It began with one truck and a promise to phone first.
Waybill started in 1998 with a single truck on a single lane, Rotterdam to Leeds, and a habit that customers noticed: if the load was going to be late, the driver rang before anyone had to ask.
The company is larger now. The habit is the same. Road, sea, air and rail freight, nine warehouses and our own customs brokers work as one team, on one system, under one tracking number, so that there is always one person who knows where your freight is.
We are still owned by the people who work here, and we still publish our on-time figure every January, including the part we would rather not print.
Saskia de BoerManaging director
- people on the payroll
- 640
- trucks on the road
- 1,200
- ports we sail from
- 38
- warehouses
- 9
The lane so far
From one truck to one number.
19980123456789012345678901234567890123456789
Stop 01Rotterdam → Leeds
One truck, one lane
Henk Waalwijk buys a second-hand tractor unit and runs steel fittings from the Waalhaven to Yorkshire twice a week. The office is the cab.
Stop 02Waalhaven shed 4
The first warehouse
Customers ask where their goods can wait between ships and trucks. We take 6,000 m² by the quay and hire our first night shift.
Stop 0338 ports
A desk for the sea
The road team keeps meeting containers at the gate, so we start booking them ourselves. Within two years we sail from thirty-eight ports.
Stop 04Brokers on the payroll
Customs comes in-house
A load held at a border for a missing code costs more than the broker who would have caught it. We hire six, and the papers are filed before the truck leaves.
Stop 05WB-00001
One tracking number
Road, sea, air, rail and the warehouse move onto one system. A customer follows a pallet from the factory door to the shop floor with a single number.
Stop 061.2 M loads a year
Forty-one countries
Twelve hundred trucks, nine warehouses and the same promise as the first week: your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
1998 · Rotterdam → LeedsThe people
Names you can ask for.
01 / 06Managing director
Saskia de Boer
Started on the night desk in 2003 and still answers the out-of-hours phone one week in eight.
02 / 06Founder
Henk Waalwijk
Drove the first truck. Now chairs the board and inspects the yard every Friday, unannounced.
03 / 06Head of customs
Amara Okafor
Twenty brokers and one rule: the papers are finished before the engine starts.
04 / 06Head of road freight
Rafael Santos
Plans twelve hundred trucks so that fewer than one in ten drives home empty.
05 / 06Head of sea & air
Meera Pillai
Books the space months ahead, and knows which sailing will be blanked before the carrier says so.
06 / 06Yard manager, Rotterdam
Tom Aldridge
Runs forty dock doors and has not lost a pallet since 2017. He keeps count.
Papers in order
Audited, stamped, renewed.
Certificates are dull until a border officer asks for one. Ours are current, and a copy travels with every quote.
Cert · 01
ISO 9001
Quality management
Audited every year, every site
ValidSince 2006Cert · 02
AEO-F
Authorised Economic Operator
Customs simplifications and security
ValidSince 2011Cert · 03
GDP
Good Distribution Practice
Pharma lanes and cold rooms
ValidSince 2016Cert · 04
ISO 14001
Environmental management
Fleet fuel and warehouse energy
ValidSince 2019
Since 1998
It began with one truck and a promise to phone first.
Waybill started in 1998 with a single truck on a single lane, Rotterdam to Leeds, and a habit that customers noticed: if the load was going to be late, the driver rang before anyone had to ask.
The company is larger now. The habit is the same. Road, sea, air and rail freight, nine warehouses and our own customs brokers work as one team, on one system, under one tracking number, so that there is always one person who knows where your freight is.
We are still owned by the people who work here, and we still publish our on-time figure every January, including the part we would rather not print.
Saskia de BoerManaging director
- people on the payroll
- 640
- trucks on the road
- 1,200
- ports we sail from
- 38
- warehouses
- 9
The lane so far
From one truck to one number.
19980123456789012345678901234567890123456789
Stop 01Rotterdam → Leeds
One truck, one lane
Henk Waalwijk buys a second-hand tractor unit and runs steel fittings from the Waalhaven to Yorkshire twice a week. The office is the cab.
Stop 02Waalhaven shed 4
The first warehouse
Customers ask where their goods can wait between ships and trucks. We take 6,000 m² by the quay and hire our first night shift.
Stop 0338 ports
A desk for the sea
The road team keeps meeting containers at the gate, so we start booking them ourselves. Within two years we sail from thirty-eight ports.
Stop 04Brokers on the payroll
Customs comes in-house
A load held at a border for a missing code costs more than the broker who would have caught it. We hire six, and the papers are filed before the truck leaves.
Stop 05WB-00001
One tracking number
Road, sea, air, rail and the warehouse move onto one system. A customer follows a pallet from the factory door to the shop floor with a single number.
Stop 061.2 M loads a year
Forty-one countries
Twelve hundred trucks, nine warehouses and the same promise as the first week: your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
1998 · Rotterdam → LeedsThe people
Names you can ask for.
01 / 06Managing director
Saskia de Boer
Started on the night desk in 2003 and still answers the out-of-hours phone one week in eight.
02 / 06Founder
Henk Waalwijk
Drove the first truck. Now chairs the board and inspects the yard every Friday, unannounced.
03 / 06Head of customs
Amara Okafor
Twenty brokers and one rule: the papers are finished before the engine starts.
04 / 06Head of road freight
Rafael Santos
Plans twelve hundred trucks so that fewer than one in ten drives home empty.
05 / 06Head of sea & air
Meera Pillai
Books the space months ahead, and knows which sailing will be blanked before the carrier says so.
06 / 06Yard manager, Rotterdam
Tom Aldridge
Runs forty dock doors and has not lost a pallet since 2017. He keeps count.
Papers in order
Audited, stamped, renewed.
Certificates are dull until a border officer asks for one. Ours are current, and a copy travels with every quote.
Cert · 01
ISO 9001
Quality management
Audited every year, every site
ValidSince 2006Cert · 02
AEO-F
Authorised Economic Operator
Customs simplifications and security
ValidSince 2011Cert · 03
GDP
Good Distribution Practice
Pharma lanes and cold rooms
ValidSince 2016Cert · 04
ISO 14001
Environmental management
Fleet fuel and warehouse energy
ValidSince 2019
The promise
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
98.4 % of loads delivered on time last year
- deliveries on time
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- countries served
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- loads a year
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- years on the road
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The promise
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
98.4 % of loads delivered on time last year
- deliveries on time
- Figure 98.4%01234567890123456789.0123456789%
- countries served
- Figure 4101234567890123456789
- loads a year
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- years on the road
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The promise
Your freight is on time, or you hear from us before you have to ask.
98.4 % of loads delivered on time last year
- deliveries on time
- Figure 98.4%01234567890123456789.0123456789%
- countries served
- Figure 4101234567890123456789
- loads a year
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- years on the road
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Reviews
Shippers who stayed.
4.9 out of 5from 380 shippers
Review 01 / 06
We used to ring four carriers to find one container. Now I open one page and see every load we have on the water, on the road and in customs. When a sailing slipped in March, Waybill told me before the shipping line did.
Our plants give a truck thirty minutes. Miss the slot and the line stops. In a year on these lanes I can count the late arrivals on my hands, and each one came with a phone call first.
The customs team is the reason we stayed. They caught a wrong commodity code on our first shipment, saved us the duty, and have filed every entry since before the goods arrived.
Peak week used to mean hiring a hall and twenty temps. This year the stock was already in two Waybill warehouses and the orders went out the day they came in. I slept in November.
Chilled freight is unforgiving. Seeing the trailer temperature next to its position changed how we plan, and the two times a fridge unit failed, the load was moved before we lost a single pallet.
I run the yard, so I judge a forwarder by its drivers. They turn up in the slot, they know the dock number and the paperwork matches the pallets. That is rarer than it should be.
Reviews
Shippers who stayed.
4.9 out of 5from 380 shippers
Review 01 / 06
We used to ring four carriers to find one container. Now I open one page and see every load we have on the water, on the road and in customs. When a sailing slipped in March, Waybill told me before the shipping line did.
Our plants give a truck thirty minutes. Miss the slot and the line stops. In a year on these lanes I can count the late arrivals on my hands, and each one came with a phone call first.
The customs team is the reason we stayed. They caught a wrong commodity code on our first shipment, saved us the duty, and have filed every entry since before the goods arrived.
Peak week used to mean hiring a hall and twenty temps. This year the stock was already in two Waybill warehouses and the orders went out the day they came in. I slept in November.
Chilled freight is unforgiving. Seeing the trailer temperature next to its position changed how we plan, and the two times a fridge unit failed, the load was moved before we lost a single pallet.
I run the yard, so I judge a forwarder by its drivers. They turn up in the slot, they know the dock number and the paperwork matches the pallets. That is rarer than it should be.
Reviews
Shippers who stayed.
4.9 out of 5from 380 shippers
Review 01 / 06
We used to ring four carriers to find one container. Now I open one page and see every load we have on the water, on the road and in customs. When a sailing slipped in March, Waybill told me before the shipping line did.
Our plants give a truck thirty minutes. Miss the slot and the line stops. In a year on these lanes I can count the late arrivals on my hands, and each one came with a phone call first.
The customs team is the reason we stayed. They caught a wrong commodity code on our first shipment, saved us the duty, and have filed every entry since before the goods arrived.
Peak week used to mean hiring a hall and twenty temps. This year the stock was already in two Waybill warehouses and the orders went out the day they came in. I slept in November.
Chilled freight is unforgiving. Seeing the trailer temperature next to its position changed how we plan, and the two times a fridge unit failed, the load was moved before we lost a single pallet.
I run the yard, so I judge a forwarder by its drivers. They turn up in the slot, they know the dock number and the paperwork matches the pallets. That is rarer than it should be.