If you run a courier or transport business you need a good source of reliable subbies to cope with peaks in work, and collections out of your area.

Here are five good reasons why Shed 5 is the ideal place to find owner drivers and ensure you give your customers a quality service.

1. Shed 5 is fast

Shed 5 is designed to make it quick and easy to post  your work, so you can reach the right subbies in seconds:

• Shed 5 recognises 1.8 million UK postcodes and places, and remembers your favourite places
• save ’master tickets’ for even faster re-use of your frequent jobs
• allocate jobs to subbies with consignment notes/PODs for them to print
• alerts are sent using SMS text messages using a top-quality reliable third party provider

2. Shed 5 finds the right subbies

Unlike some exchanges, Shed 5 tries to control the number of alerts sent for each job so you are not swamped by too many irrelevant calls:

• all member GIT documents are checked every year, and only members with up-to-date GIT can see your work
• alerts are carefully targeted and sent to the members with the right size vehicles in the right places
• Shed 5′s intelligent matching system finds suitable members even before you have finished entering the job details, so you can ring them direct

3. Shed 5 is mobile

Shed 5 has been designed to run on any PC, laptop or mobile phone with internet access. There’s no separate ‘mobile’ site and no extra charge to use Shed 5 so you can post and manage your jobs wherever you are.

4. Shed 5 doesn’t stunt your growth

Every Shed 5 account is the same - it doesn’t matter how many jobs you can post, how many vehicles you have, how many users you have, or whether you’ve got offices. So as your business grows Shed 5 keeps on giving you the same reliable low-cost service.

5. Shed 5 is cost-effective

Shed 5 has a low registration price and free membership for as long as you keep using it. Once you’ve registered you just have to log in at least once a month to keep your account active.