Road Freight

Economy Road Freight

First Freight specializes in deliveries and collections for regional clients within Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg and offers dedicated or breakbulk truckloads to all major cities around South Africa. We are also able to deliver to outlying and remote locations and offer cross border freight solutions to all our neighbouring countries.

Air Freight

Same Day Express

Rapid door-to-door express delivery service, the same day of collection. Collection are made within 60 minutes of your call, and the shipment is lodged on the first available flight.

Overnight Express
Delivered by 11:00 am the following working day of collection. This service is available to all major regional centres, serviced by First Freight and respective dedicated airlines.

Normal Cargo

Next Day Delivery

This service offers delivery of cargo during the course of the following working day of collection. The cargo is transported either by road or air depending on flight availability.

Why First Freight?

  • Strict adherence to and management of Service Level Agreements (SLA’s); particularly pertaining to on-time deliveries.
  • Strategic partnerships with our customers
  • Flexible fleet sourcing; offering a wide range of vehicle types and sizes
  • Extensive national and international network
  • Ability to successfully upscale to handle demanding peak periods
  • Customer Centricity: enjoying unparalleled customer satisfaction and service delivery, leaving our clients with an exceptional and memorable experience

Parcel Perfect

Parcel Perfect is an in-house system for capturing and printing waybills and labels onsite as well as live replication of tracking, PODs and images back into the In-house for real time management of consignments sent on any particular day.

  • Real Time parcel tracking
  • Barcoded scanning with replication across all branches and online customers
  • Online PODs with the ability to request hardcopies
  • Document Imaging system for all supporting documents
  • Consignment tracking via reference number/tracking number
  • Daily, weekly or monthly POD reports
  • Receive monthly financial information via email: Invoices, Statements, Credit notes
  • Collection confirmations via SMS or email
  • Web based In-house systems
  • Live collection and POD confirmation
  • And so much more