Eliminate the Wait.
By eliminating the live load.
Truck drivers waste 30% of their day sitting idle.
This isn't a niche issue. It affects every truck, every warehouse, every day.
Goods move onto trailers two ways. 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
$15.1B
Annual cost of truck detention alone.
Source: American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)
40% of shipments are affected, so we start here.
Total idle waste is estimated to surpass $100B.
In 22 years of industry service, 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.
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.
5 sites → $650K gross revenue
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.
10+ metro network - autonomous-ready infrastructure
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.
Each phase builds density. Each compounds the moat. The network is the product.
In each metro, density is the moat.
Whoever saturates the industrial clusters first becomes the default. The network effect compounds.
The boring infrastructure play - except it compounds.
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.
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
Series A - 90% Verbally Committed - In Due Diligence
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.
$1M Bridge Into the Series A
We need to hire our engineering team and key leaders NOW so we are deployment-ready when the $54M closes. Bridge investors get early access at the best terms.
Use of Bridge Funds
- $450K - CTO + 3 senior developers (3 months)
- $350K - Operations and business development leads
- $200K - Overhead, admin, legal
What Bridge Delivers
- Platform MVP ready at close
- Key leadership locked in
- Truck deployment month 1 post-close
Less than 2% of the $54M round. Best terms available to any investor.