Your load, priced by the people who'll haul it.
Post it once. Haulers who already run these roads each send one firm number, fuel and their time inside it. You pick. Your card isn't charged until you say it arrived.
Free to post. No account needed to try the builder.
HaulHandExample load · Bozeman → Idaho Falls
What comparing bids will look like
Pot belly trailer
$1,240
Gooseneck
$1,305
Straight deck
$1,410
How shipping works
Four steps between posted and delivered
- 01
Post the load
Pick a category and describe what's moving, where from, where to, and when. About two minutes, and it costs nothing.
- 02
Read the bids
One number from each hauler, all-in — fuel, their time, the run home. Compare the total you would pay, their business name and USDOT, and whatever equipment they say they will bring. You choose. We never assign anyone.
- 03
Book it
Accept the one you want. Your card is authorized for the bid plus our fee — the whole figure on screen before you confirm. Authorized, not charged.
- 04
Confirm delivery
When the load lands, you confirm it. That is what completes the charge. Until then it is still your money.
Want the whole flow, both sides of it? Read the full walkthrough.
What it costs
The bid, one published fee, nothing after
Haulers keep exactly what they bid, so they bid what they actually want to earn rather than padding for a cut. The fee is added on your side and shown on the checkout screen — no fuel surcharge that turns up later, no accessorials invented after delivery.
- Free to post a load and collect bids
- 10% on the first $2,000, then 5%, on the screen before you pay
- Card authorized at booking, charged once you confirm delivery
- Cancelling is free until your hauler sets off
The full breakdown, including what cancelling costs at each stage, is on the pricing page.
Example — 210 mile cattle haul
- Winning bid
- $1,240
- Platform fee (10%)
- $124
- You pay
- $1,364
- Hauler receives
- $1,240
Authorized when you book. Charged once you confirm delivery.
Your money
What happens to your money, moment by moment
Handing a stranger your cattle or your excavator is risk enough on its own. The payment is built so the money only moves when the load does.
When you accept a bid
Your card is authorized, not charged. The hauler can see the money is committed before they drive out, and it stays yours until the load actually lands.
When it's delivered
You confirm delivery and the charge completes. If you don't respond, it completes on its own 72 hours after the hauler marks delivery — nobody should be left waiting on an unanswered phone for their money.
If something goes wrong
Open a dispute from the booking and the charge stops while it's open. Both sides file what they have and each can read the other's. HaulHand cannot record an agreed outcome yet, so unless you settle it between yourselves a published rule decides it at the 72-hour deadline.
If plans change
Cancel free right up until your hauler sets off. After that you cover the wasted run — a flat $75 today, and never a slice of what your load is worth. Once it's on the truck, the full bid is owed.
The rules this marketplace will run on — paperwork haulers must file, how disputes work, and what HaulHand is not — are spelled out on the safety page.
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Try it with the load you actually have
The real form, with the real rules, and nothing posts from here. Try your next haul through it, then post it for real from your account.
Livestock & Ranching
Cattle, horses, and sheep moved by haulers who know the difference.
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Freight & Pallets
Pallets, crates, and full truckloads across the Mountain West.
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Vehicles & Powersports
Cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, and RVs moved door to door.
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Heavy Equipment & Machinery
Excavators, tractors, and implements — including oversize.
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Household & Moving
Home moves, single items, and storage runs.
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General Hauling
If it needs to get somewhere, post it.
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Questions
What shippers ask
- Is HaulHand open yet?
- Not yet. There are no live loads and no haulers on the board, and we would rather tell you that here than have you find out with stock already gathered. What works today is the load builder: no account, nothing posts, and it checks your details against the same rules a real posting will use. Tell us your routes and we'll open your corridor first.
- How much does it cost to ship a load with HaulHand?
- Posting a load and collecting bids is free. When you accept a bid, you pay that bid plus our platform fee — 10% on the first $2,000, then 5% — shown before you confirm. On a $1,240 bid the fee is $124, so you would pay $1,364 and the hauler receives $1,240.
- How does bidding work?
- Haulers bid one firm, all-in number — fuel and their time are already in it, and nothing is added after delivery. You compare the total, the business bidding and their USDOT, and whatever equipment they name, and you choose who gets the load. We never assign a hauler.
- When is my card charged?
- Your card is authorized when you accept a bid and charged after you confirm delivery. If you don't respond, the charge completes automatically 72 hours after the hauler marks delivery.
- What does cancelling cost?
- Nothing, right up until your hauler sets off for the pickup. Once they're on the way you cover the wasted run, and it goes to them in full — HaulHand takes none of it. The policy is $2.25 a mile with a $75 minimum, but we cannot measure that distance yet, so today every cancellation at this stage is the flat $75. Once the load is on the truck, the full bid is owed. Every tier is published on the pricing page before you ever book.
- Who hauls my load?
- Independent operators whose accounts a person at HaulHand has approved, and who have agreed in writing that they carry insurance appropriate to the work and hold whatever authority it needs. HaulHand does not collect or check those documents today — what you see on a bid is the hauler's business name, the USDOT or MC number they gave us, and the equipment they say they will bring. Those numbers look up free on FMCSA's public register, and you make the choice yourself.
- Is HaulHand the carrier?
- No. HaulHand is a marketplace: the transport contract is between you and the hauler you choose. We are not a motor carrier and not an insurer, and haulers are independent operators responsible for their own authority, insurance, and compliance.
Got a truck as well as loads? HaulHand runs both directions — see how hauling works. It's one account either way.
Build your load now. Post it the day we open.
The builder is free and needs no account. Tell us the routes you move on and yours is one of the first corridors we open.