Roadie launches RoadieXD™. Roadie’s new solution provides customers “big and bulky” capabilities in its efficient same-day delivery model, enabling delivery direct from retailers’ distribution centers via cross-dock facilities. The solution is particularly useful for the items traditional carriers refer to as “irregulars,” big, bulky, oversized or oddly shaped deliveries.
RoadieXD works by leveraging cross-docks – facilities where goods are distributed to delivery drivers directly and immediately – to enable rapid local delivery of those goods through the Roadie platform. With this model, retailers can offer same-day delivery across a wide range of SKUs with minimal cost and complexity, up to 100 miles from cross-dock facilities located around the U.S.
“RoadieXD enables retailers to deliver the big screen TV their customers ordered anywhere, even over the threshold in some markets, as quickly as the same day,” says Marc Gorlin, Roadie’s founder and CEO. “Or their mini-fridge, or their barbecue grill, or a 50-pound bag of dog food. With our new cross-docking solution, all of that becomes easy.”
Key Takeaways:
- Big and bulky items are costly and complex for traditional carriers to deliver and are thus expensive for the retailer to send; in fact, many of them are not boxed and are outside of traditional carriers’ tariffs. RoadieXD is an efficient option for those items, allowing them to be delivered with the same ease and convenience as smaller items – in just hours of an online shopper clicking “check out.”
- RoadieXD enables pick-up of full truckloads directly from customer distribution centers, which shortens time to delivery and minimizes handling. RoadieXD delivery is currently available for items up to 200 pounds and up to 12 feet in length, and pallets are welcome.
