The tools that make Laydn more than a board.
Any load board can show you a list. Laydn does the hard graft too — bringing the right loads to you, filling your empty legs, and planning whole days. Three smart tools, built in, free on every membership.
Loads find you, not the other way round.
Laydr is your personal load radar. Instead of sitting and refreshing the board, you set the patch you cover — an anchor postcode, a radius around it, and the hours you want to work — and Laydr watches the board for you around the clock.
The instant a load is posted that matches your area and your window, Laydr fires a push notification straight to your phone. No other UK load board pushes the right work to you automatically — so while everyone else is scrolling, you're first to the phone and first to the job.
- Anchor postcode + radius — watch exactly your area
- Time window — only loads in the hours you'll work
- Set multiple alerts for different routes or vehicles
- Instant push notification — be first to respond
Wigan → Bolton · Van · £160 · 4.2 mi from you
Fill the empty leg. Every time.
An empty run home is pure dead money. So the moment you open a load, Laydn's backload engine looks at where you'll be when you drop off and finds the best return runs heading your way — automatically.
It's not a dumb keyword search. Every candidate is scored on what actually matters: how close it is to your drop (the biggest factor), whether the timing works against the collection window, the money, and your vehicle — wrong vehicle is ruled out, a close body type is preferred. You get the strongest matches ranked at the top, so you can book your outbound and your return together.
- Ranked by distance from your drop, timing, money & vehicle
- Wrong vehicle ruled out; near-fit bodies still shown
- Turn a one-way job into a profitable round trip
A full day's work, planned in one tap.
Backloads fills one return leg. Planr plans the whole day. Give it where you're starting, the date and your vehicle, and it searches the live board and chains loads together into a complete day's route — one job leading sensibly to the next.
It works the geography and the timing for you: minimum empty miles between drops and pickups, and a route that loops you back towards home at the end of the shift. What used to be an hour of phone calls and a notepad of maybes becomes a planned, costed day in seconds.
- Chains several live loads into one efficient day
- Minimises empty miles between every leg
- Loops you back toward base by the end of the day
- See the day's total before you commit to a thing
All three. In every membership.
No premium tier, no upsell, no per-tool charge. Laydr, Backloads and Planr come as standard on one flat fee — alongside the board, full job tracking and unlimited users.
Laydr
Matching loads pushed to your phone.
Backloads
The best return runs, ranked for you.
Planr
A whole day's route in one tap.
Smart tools for hauliers, built into the board
A traditional load board is a list. You scroll it, you find a job, that's the end of the help. Laydn was built by people who've run the wheels, so it does the parts that actually save a haulier time and money — finding the right loads, filling empty legs, and planning whole days. Three tools, included on every membership at no extra cost.
Laydr — automatic load alerts
Laydr is a load alert system that works like a radar for your patch. Set an anchor postcode, a radius and your working hours, and matching loads are pushed to your phone the moment they're posted. It means you can stop watching the board and let the right work come to you — ideal for owner drivers who can't sit refreshing a screen all day.
Backloads — return-run matching
Laydn's backload matching tackles the biggest drain on haulage margins: empty running. Open any load and the engine surfaces the best return loads from near your drop-off, ranked on distance, timing, money and vehicle fit. Booking a backload turns a one-way job into a round trip and keeps your truck earning in both directions.
Planr — day-route planning
Planr is a route planner for hauliers that thinks in whole days. Give it a start point, a date and a vehicle, and it chains live loads into a full day's route with minimal empty miles, looping back toward home. It does the geography and the timing in seconds — the kind of planning that used to take an hour on the phone.
Every one of these is included free on the Laydn membership. See how carriers find loads, read how the whole platform works, or check the flat-fee pricing.
Tools & features FAQs
What is Laydr and how do load alerts work?
Laydr is Laydn's load-alert radar. You set an anchor postcode, a radius around it, and the hours you want to work. Whenever a load is posted that matches your area and time window, Laydr sends a push notification straight to your phone — so matching loads come to you instead of you watching the board. You can set up several alerts for different routes or vehicles.
How does backload matching work?
When you open a load, Laydn looks at where you'll drop off and finds the best return runs heading your way. Each one is ranked on how close it is to your drop, whether the timing fits, the money, and your vehicle — so the strongest matches sit at the top. It's designed to help you fill the empty leg and avoid running home for nothing.
What does Planr do?
Planr is a day-route planner. You give it a start point, a date and your vehicle, and it chains live loads from the board into a full day's work — minimising empty miles between jobs and looping you back toward home. It plans and costs a whole day's route in one tap.
Do these tools cost extra?
No. Laydr, Backloads and Planr are all included in the one flat Laydn membership at no extra cost — there's no premium tier or per-tool charge. They come alongside the live board, full job tracking and unlimited users.
Are the tools for carriers, shippers, or both?
Laydr, Backloads and Planr are built for the carrier side — finding loads, filling return legs and planning days. Shippers benefit too, because Laydr means a posted load is pushed to the carriers most likely to move it, helping freight get covered faster.
More than a board. Try it free.
Join free while we grow the board and get Laydr, Backloads and Planr included — alongside the live board, job tracking and unlimited users. No commission, no contracts.