Return loads
See which marketplace loads are worth taking on the way back from a trip instead of driving empty.
Updated October 5, 2026
After a trip's last stop, a vehicle often drives back empty to its next job or to your depot. The Return loads tab of a trip shows loads that fit that empty run, ranked by how much they are worth to you.
Open the return loads
- Open the trip.
- Click the Return loads tab. It is shown on every trip when your platform has the Marketplace feature.
- Wait a moment. Tenders your platform already holds appear first; while the freight exchanges are asked, you see Checking the freight exchanges….
- Read the list from the top: the best fits come first.
How the loads are found
Transportial works out where and when the vehicle becomes free (the trip's last stop) and where it must be next. That destination is shown at the top:
- Due next at: the first stop of the vehicle's next trip, with By the time it is due there.
- Returning to: the nearest of your own locations, when there is no next trip.
It then looks for loads that pick up near the drop-off and deliver towards that destination, both among the open tenders you hold and live on your freight exchanges.
Read a return load
| Item | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Score (%) | How good the fit is overall. Higher is better. |
| … empty | Empty miles to the pickup. |
| …× vs empty | Distance of the whole return with the load compared with driving back empty. Close to 1× is almost free revenue. |
| Weight and price | The load's weight, its price and the revenue per mile. |
| Reasons and warnings | Why the load scores well, and what is wrong with it. |
Loads that break a limit, for example too far to drive empty, are shown greyed out at the end with the reason. That way you can tell "nothing available" from "just outside the limits".
Above the list, each exchange shows how many loads it returned, or unavailable if it did not answer. If nothing fits, you see No return load worth taking.
Take a return load
- Click the load you want. A tender your platform already holds opens straight away.
- For a load from a freight exchange, wait while it shows Importing…. It is imported as a tender and then opens, just like Import in Search the freight exchanges.
- Check the lane, time windows and Client Budget on the Overview.
- Click Place bid to bid on it. See Bid on a tender.
- Or click Open on followed by the board name, on the load or on the tender, to respond on the exchange itself.
- Once you have the work, plan it on the same vehicle after the current trip.
Importing a load stores a new tender, so it needs permission to create tenders. Without it, loads from freight exchanges cannot be clicked; use their Open on link instead.
The limits, such as the maximum empty miles (150 km by default), the maximum detour and waiting time and the target revenue per mile, are set per platform. Ask your administrator or Transportial support to change them.