Eliminate the Wait
by eliminating the live load.
The Difference is Egregious
① Live Loading
- Most common method - used by over two-thirds of shippers in the industry
- Appointment based - driver waits for the appointment and for goods transfer
- Wasteful by design - for schedule integrity
② Drop & Hook
- Warehouse loads at their leisure - at the time that works best for their operation
- Driver swaps trailers - rolling again in 30 minutes
- Proven for decades - maximum efficiency
- But limited to under one-third of the market
Drivers waste 30% of their day. Everything downstream suffers.
And It's Getting Worse
- Service failures & freight rates
- Crash risk & HOS violations
- Driver turnover - 94% annual rate
- Driver pay & asset utilization declining
- On-time rates & service predictability declining
- Shipper & carrier profitability declining
I've experienced every side of this problem.
- Started as a driver - experienced the detrimental results of this dozens of times per year, missing key life events
- Then as a fleet owner - watched it rob us of opportunity costs, often totaling half the day's revenue or more
- Worked with hundreds of shippers - learning details of their operations, trying to optimize our fleet with their shipments
NoDwell was designed from this experience.
Three services. One network.
All feed the same density moat and grease the supply chain efficiency flywheel via democratized contracts or platform use as needed.
A shared yard spotter for unserved shippers at a net negative cost.
Net negative cost: the shipper pays less for NoDwell coverage than they currently or would spend having their own drivers handle yard moves during dock wait times.
NoDwell shares a yard truck across 2-5 neighboring facilities on a democratized contract, directly connecting to shippers' internal systems for ease of use, organizing jobs like a ride share.
Already operating through Spot On Logistics. Revenue-producing today.
On-demand relay. Creating the drop-and-hook.
Two modes. Same truck. Same network. Same direct platform connection. Same organization of jobs, rideshare style.
Proactive: Drop and Swap
NoDwell offers a city truck for the time it takes to load or unload the carrier's trailer and stages it. Driver arrives, drops inbound, hooks outbound, keeps driving - zero wait. The drop-and-hook experience democratized for everyone.
Reactive: Exception Management
Driver stuck at dock for hours. NoDwell dispatches a city truck to take over the trailer. Driver gets back on the road immediately.
Concept operating and producing revenue today through Spot On Logistics. The economics are self-evident.
Our software guides autonomous yard trucks site to site from the data we create.
The yards we already operate from services 1 & 2 become the critical infrastructure that autonomous line haul trucks need to reach their final mile.
Autonomous Line Haul Creates Demand
- Aurora is hauling freight driverless - Dallas to Houston, live today
- These trucks can't navigate docks or urban areas - they need a handoff point
- NoDwell yards become that transfer station
NoDwell. Same thesis, same opportunity. Uber would be our Amazon.
In each metro, density is the moat.
Whoever saturates the industrial clusters first becomes the default. The network effect compounds.
Every job generates GPS data, route patterns, and demand signals. Data compounds. Density defends.
Everyone optimizes around the problem.
We remove it.
NoDwell serves the over two-thirds none of them can reach - and all of them are potential acquirers.
Both Lazer Logistics (700+ locations) and YMX are already calling about our yard services through Spot On.
AI has changed SaaS forever.
That's ok with us.
AI can replicate code. It can't replicate trucks on the ground.
AI Builds It Faster
- Platform at a fraction of traditional cost - on-premise NVIDIA DGX Spark, no cloud dependency
- Every truck generates data that positions us for autonomous partnerships
AI Can't Replace It
- Physical truck network and 15 years of facility relationships
- First-mover density - whoever saturates the clusters first, wins
EV-ready by design - all operations within ~75 miles of metro chargers.
Dave Anderson described exactly what he's looking for. This is us.
Source: First Things First Podcast, Season 2
“We're looking for areas that haven't been touched historically but are starting to emerge... that have a lot of logistics issues and no technology to deal with them yet.”
NoDwell: No platform exists for shared yard operations. We built the first.
“We have investment in a company that's doing autonomous yard management... we think that's going to be critical.”
NoDwell: Our software guides the autonomous yard truck site to site. We have all the data, and our yards become the handoff points for autonomous line haul.
“It isn't all about software... a lot of it's about your knowledge of the space and being able to do it.”
NoDwell: 22 years in truckload. Driver, fleet owner, yard operator. We lived it.
“Spend a couple of years running facilities... get a real feel of what it's like to work with real people in that environment.”
NoDwell: Our founder didn't spend a couple of years. He spent 22.
“Making life happier for a driver who doesn't have to go through 18 gears every time... critical to dealing with driver shortages.”
NoDwell: We give drivers their time back. Every job eliminates hours of dock wait.
“Kiva Robotics sold for $700 million to Amazon... we were very early stage. And LLamasoft sold to Coupa... we left our money in.”
NoDwell: Same thesis. Same opportunity. Uber would be our Amazon.
NoDwell maps to every pillar of your thesis.
We match SCV's focus on AI-enabled, on-demand models that transform physical supply chains.
SCV's portfolio connects the digital linehaul (Loadsmart, Leaf). NoDwell connects the physical last mile.
Built by people who've lived this problem.
Blake Lappan
- 22 years in truckload freight
- 15 years in yard management
- 14 years as a fleet owner
- Implemented yard management for several enterprise companies
Amol Mehta
- Former Founder & Director of Development at Bunjii
- Built an Uber for pickup trucks that pivoted to small parcel delivery vans
- Deep expertise in marketplace platform architecture
Advisory Board
Cap Table Post-Investment
NoDwell, Inc. - Two-Tier SAFE
Tier 1 rewards early commitment. Tier 2 reflects reduced risk with contracted baseline and supports fewer, larger checks.
$10M post-money · 85%+ to sales & growth
SAFE with 20% discount offered
Felt it as a driver. Paid for it as an owner.
Experienced processes across hundreds of shippers.
Conceptualized NoDwell to fix the root cause for everyone.