The short answer
A transport company website wins corporate contracts when it answers the questions a procurement team asks before it calls: what you run, where you run it, how much you can carry, whether you are licensed and insured, how a customer follows a load, and how to ask for a price. For a trucking, freight, courier or bus company in Uganda, that means a fleet page, a routes page, a capacity statement, an insurance and licences page, a plain answer on tracking and a quote request form that sends the details of the job straight to your dispatcher.
We design and build these sites in Kampala. Websites start , with a fixed quote before work starts, a 50/25/25 payment plan, and the source code and data owned by you. Two rules shape what your site should say: freight, courier and storage businesses fall under the EFRIS rule for sector 6, transportation and storage, while passenger land transport such as buses and taxis is excluded; and carrying parcels for a fee needs a courier licence from the Uganda Communications Commission. One honest limit: a single truck with a few regular clients does not need a website yet. A free Google listing and WhatsApp Business come first.
The pages that win corporate contracts on a trucking company website
A corporate buyer, an NGO logistics officer or a factory procurement team does not fall for a slogan. They check. They are comparing you with two or three other carriers, and they need something they can show their manager. Build your logistics company website as a checklist they can tick off in two minutes on a phone.
- Fleet: each vehicle type you really run, such as pickups, vans, flatbeds, tippers, trailers or refrigerated trucks if you have them, with its load capacity, a real photo and how many you own. Use only real numbers. If you subcontract extra trucks at peak times, say so plainly.
- Routes: the corridors you actually serve, for example Kampala to Gulu or Kampala to the Kenyan border, whichever are true for you, with transit times only if you can stand behind them. Give each main route its own page, so someone searching for that route lands on yours.
- Capacity: how much you can move in a week or a month, how many vehicles are free for a new client and the largest single load you take. That one line tells a buyer more about reliability than the word reliable ever will.
- Insurance and licences: your company registration, TIN and trading licence; any operating licence your vehicles hold from the Transport Licensing Board (TLB); a postal and courier licence from the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) if you carry parcels for a fee; and the cover you hold, such as goods in transit plus third party or comprehensive motor insurance. Show the type of cover, the insurer and the expiry date, with a certificate to download if the insurer allows it. Keeping every date current is your duty as the holder, and we publish only what you give us.
- Tracking: say plainly how a customer follows a load. If you use a GPS provider, link to it or show a sample update. If your dispatcher sends a WhatsApp message at set points on the trip, say which points. A brochure website cannot show live vehicle positions by itself: that needs trackers in the trucks and a fleet management system, and we would rather tell you now than sell you a map that does not work. A reference-number lookup for customers needs a small system behind it, covered below.
- Quote request: a form that captures the job, not just a phone number. The next section explains why.
- Proof: delivery photos, a short company profile as a PDF the buyer can forward, and client names or logos only with the client's permission. We never invent a client or a number.
If you run buses
A bus or shuttle company's visitor is a traveller, not a procurement officer, so the page set changes: routes and departure points, timetables, fares, luggage rules, and booking or enquiry by WhatsApp. If you want seats or deposits paid by MTN MoMo or Airtel Money, that can be built in, and we know those rails from Moyo Pay. If your buses carry parcels for a fee, UCC licenses that as a courier service, with a city to city category for routes such as Kampala to Mbarara, so show that licence beside your parcel rates. Corporate charters and staff transport deals still deserve their own quote form.
Why a quote form beats a phone number for B2B
A phone number asks a busy buyer to call and explain a job from scratch while your dispatcher is on another line or your office is shut. A quote form does the explaining for them, at any hour, and leaves a written record the buyer can forward to a manager, a finance officer or a tender file. When a logistics buyer is comparing three carriers, the one whose form asked the right questions is usually the one that sends a price first.
- What the form asks: company name, contact person, phone or WhatsApp number, email, pickup point, delivery point, type of cargo and whether it needs a covered, flatbed or refrigerated truck, rough weight or volume, wanted date, one-off or recurring, and the company's TIN if it wants an EFRIS e-invoice. About ten short fields is enough to price most jobs, and a longer form loses people. An optional upload takes a packing list or a tender schedule.
- Where it goes: straight to the email address and WhatsApp number your dispatcher watches, with the details already laid out, plus a copy kept in a list that only your staff can open. Nothing is lost in a missed call.
- What the buyer sees back: a thank-you page and an automatic message saying what happens next. You decide the promise, for example the time you will reply by, and we build it in. We never set a response time you cannot keep.
- The phone stays: a call button and a WhatsApp button sit beside the form, because some buyers will message about a small urgent job instead. The aim is to add a path, not remove one.
- Two paths for couriers: a company wanting a monthly delivery contract needs the quote form. A person sending one parcel wants a WhatsApp button and a rate card. Put both on the page and keep them apart.
A phone number tells a buyer you exist. A quote form tells you who they are, what they need and when.
EFRIS for freight, courier and bus companies
EFRIS is URA's system for electronic invoices and receipts. Since 1 July 2025 its sector rule has covered sector 6, transportation and storage, which URA describes as freight and passenger transport by road, rail, water or air plus related services such as cargo handling, storage, and postal and courier work. So trucking, haulage, courier and parcel delivery, and warehousing must issue EFRIS e-invoices or e-receipts whether or not they are VAT registered, unless annual turnover is below UGX 10 million. On our reading, freight forwarding is in too. Passenger land transport, meaning taxis, boda bodas, shuttles and buses, is excluded. The full rules are in our EFRIS for transport and storage guide.
Why this belongs on your website: a buyer cannot deduct for income tax a payment to a supplier who had to use EFRIS but gave no e-invoice or e-receipt (Income Tax Act, section 22(3)(m)), so a corporate accounts team has a reason to ask before it signs. One line on your quote and contact pages saying you issue EFRIS documents, with the buyer's TIN, business registration number or NIN on each one, answers that first. The site itself does not issue EFRIS documents or make you compliant: registering, and issuing a document for each job, is your obligation as the business. If you want accepted quotes to turn into invoices automatically, that is a system, not a bigger website. A bus company that also carries parcels should confirm with URA how the parcel side is classified.
Set this up first, in this order
A website is rarely the first thing a transport business should pay for. Here is the order that pays, with the real cost of each step, and what can wait.
- Register the business. The official URSB fees: a business name costs UGX 90,000, made up of UGX 35,000 to reserve the name and UGX 55,000 to register it. A private company with share capital up to UGX 5,000,000 pays UGX 105,000 to register, plus the UGX 35,000 name reservation and stamp duty of 0.5% of the share capital. Owners report paying agents anywhere from about UGX 600,000 to several million shillings for the same filings. That is what owners report, not a published rate, and you can file yourself on the URSB e-registry. If you are chasing corporate contracts, ask your target buyers whether they want to deal with a registered company rather than a business name. The full bill is in the cost of registering a business in Uganda.
- Get a TIN. URA issues it free of charge, and an individual with a National ID can get an instant TIN online in about five minutes. Companies apply online too, and URA staff check those applications. If someone charges you, they are charging for their time, not for the TIN.
- Get the trading licence. KCCA issues it in Kampala; elsewhere your city, municipal or town council does. The fee depends on your trade and the grade of the area you trade in, so ask for the line that covers your kind of business. KCCA treats it as a calendar year licence, paid before you start trading and renewed by 1 January; outside Kampala, ask your council for its dates. See trading licence fees by trade and grade.
- Budget the vehicle taxes. URA charges advance income tax once a year on each goods vehicle, and its transport page lists UGX 50,000 per tonne a year for goods vehicles over 2 tonnes. The Transport Licensing Board asks for proof of it before renewing operating licences. Add it to your cost per truck before you price a contract, and check the current rate with URA.
- Adopt the free habits. Keep business money apart from personal money, and write down every trip, fuel purchase, repair and driver payment each day, so you know which routes pay. Use the free WhatsApp Business app with your routes and a written rate card, take real photos of your vehicles and loads, answer enquiries the same day and ask each happy customer for a review. Never pay for reviews. All of this costs nothing, and every later step works better for it.
- Claim your Google Business Profile. Claiming it is free, and it puts your office or yard on Maps. It is also commonly sold as a setup service, because doing it properly takes time: the right category, photos, verification and the first posts. We quote that work after seeing what you already have, and the profile stays in an account you hold. See Google Business Profile setup in Uganda.
- Then the website, , with an optional monthly care plan at a month. It pays once buyers look you up before they call, or once you want a place to send people from adverts, Google and follow-up messages. Ask any designer exactly what their care plan covers: updates, security, backups, content changes and how fast they respond.
- A system, only when no ready-made tool fits. If a free or low-cost app already handles your jobs and invoices, keep using it. Growth Informer Business, our own live cloud POS, inventory and business platform, may cover your day-to-day sales, expenses and records, and we will tell you whether it fits before you pay for a build. A system built around your own dispatch, driver settlement or customer tracking workflow is quoted per project after we have seen that workflow, . See delivery and logistics software development.
What is not needed yet: one truck and a few regular clients need the daily record, WhatsApp Business and a free Google listing, not a website. A website can wait until buyers start asking to check you out, and a custom system can wait until a spreadsheet and WhatsApp stop coping with your jobs. If you do not yet know which routes pay, spend the first weeks learning that from real jobs before you build anything.
What a transport company website costs in Uganda
You get a fixed quote before work starts, you pay on a 50/25/25 plan, and you own the source code and the data. Scope sets the price.
| What you need | Our price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Transport company website | Home, fleet, routes, capacity, insurance and licences, about, contact, a B2B quote request form and a WhatsApp button. | |
| Larger fleet or logistics group site | A page for each service line and main route, a downloadable company profile, a careers page and a staff-only list of quote requests. | |
| Mobile money on the site | MTN MoMo and Airtel Money for a parcel fee, a booking deposit or a seat. Quoted by what it connects to. | |
| Monthly care plan, per month | Updates, security, backups and content changes, so fleet, licence and insurance details stay current. | |
| Tracking, dispatch or booking system | Customer tracking by reference number, dispatch and driver records. Quoted per project after we see your workflow. |
What moves the quote: how many service lines and route pages you publish, whether quote requests feed a staff-only list or only your email, and whether customers pay online. A site that only takes quote requests needs no payment integration at all. And if your real problem is dispatch, driver settlements or customers phoning to ask where their load is, a bigger website will not fix it. That is a system, and we will say so before you spend a shilling on the wrong thing.
Built in Kampala, with proof you can open
We are Growth Informer Software Services, in Kampala, with 37 live website and app builds in our portfolio that you can open on your own phone. The proof that matters for transport is our own platforms: Growth Informer Business, a live cloud POS, inventory and business platform; Moyo Pay, our own dual-currency wallet on a double-entry ledger with Mobile Money and USSD, which is where we know the MTN MoMo and Airtel Money rails from; and Karibu, a travel SaaS, which is why booking flows are familiar ground. We will not show you a logo we cannot back up. Judge the speed and finish of what is live, and ask us anything about it.
We can meet you in person at your office or your yard across greater Kampala, from the city centre and Nakasero to Ntinda, Bugolobi, the Industrial Area, Nakawa and out to Namanve. We have also managed over USD 100k of client ad spend, so if you later want paid search to bring corporate enquiries, we can tell you honestly whether it is worth paying for yet. Start on WhatsApp on +256 702 946 946 with your routes and fleet size, and get a fixed quote back.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a transport company website cost in Uganda?
A transport company website with fleet, routes, capacity, insurance and licences pages and a B2B quote form costs . A larger logistics group site is , and a monthly care plan is a month if you want it kept running. You get a fixed quote before work starts and pay on a 50/25/25 plan.
Which pages does a trucking company website need to win corporate clients?
A fleet page, a routes page, a capacity statement, an insurance and licences page, a plain answer on how customers track a load, a quote request form and a company profile to download. Use real numbers and real photos only. A buyer who finds these can shortlist you without making a call.
Does my transport company need EFRIS, and does the website handle it?
Freight, courier, storage and haulage businesses fall under sector 6, transportation and storage, effective from 1 July 2025, unless annual turnover is below UGX 10 million. Passenger land transport, such as taxis, boda bodas, shuttles and buses, is excluded. The website does not issue EFRIS documents or make you compliant: registering and issuing a document for each job is your obligation as the business. Confirm any borderline case with URA.
Why use a quote form instead of just a phone number?
A form captures the route, cargo, weight and date at any hour, and it leaves a written record the buyer can forward to a manager or a tender file. It also lets your dispatcher price from facts instead of a rushed call. Keep the phone and WhatsApp buttons beside it, because some buyers will still message.
Do I need a website if I run one truck?
Probably not yet. With one truck and a few regular clients, the daily record, WhatsApp Business and a free Google Business Profile do more for you. A website starts to pay once buyers look you up before they call or you want to win clients beyond your own referrals.