Kegshare rents kegs to breweries, cideries and beverage producers across Canada, delivering to producers and collecting from their licensees through 50+ Network Partners. Quoting went from 2 hours to 10 minutes. Booking got 6× faster. And finance finally has a number it can defend.
After 10 years in the industry, I can say that LiveLOADS is one of the best tools I've used. It transformed our logistics by centralizing everything (bidding, documentation, and invoicing) into one, easy-to-use platform.
We've been enjoying working with the platform. It's been a smooth experience, and is very user-friendly. It's easy to navigate and figure out, which helps keep things moving on our end.
Kegshare rents stainless kegs in 19.5L, 30L and 50L sizes to Canadian breweries, cideries and beverage producers. You pay a low daily rate, but only while the kegs are out in the market. Kegshare's side of the model is the logistics: kegs delivered to producers, returns collected from their clients' licensees, stainless moved back into the pool. The beer itself never rides in a Kegshare truck. Over 100,000 kegs in circulation, 50+ Network Partners coast to coast, 100% Canadian-owned. They call it Canada's most robust reverse logistics network. They're not wrong.
Now think about what that means for freight. Kegs going out to producers, returns coming back from licensees, stainless shuttling between partners. All day, every day, and every trip on a clock, because the daily rate stops the moment a keg makes it home. Kegshare coordinates preferred freight partners across the country and passes those charges through. So quoting, tendering and tracking at Kegshare aren't admin work. They're the business.
Before LiveLOADS, all of it ran the way freight usually runs at mid-market companies: quotes by email, tenders by phone, one spreadsheet carrying everything between systems. It worked, the way a corkboard and a flip phone work. Right up until finance asked a question the spreadsheet couldn't answer.
Freight is one of our biggest uncontrolled line items. LiveLOADS turned it into a number we can defend, with the audit trail behind it.
The question wasn't "how much are we spending." It was "how do we know that's right?" Answering it meant rebuilding the record from inboxes and phone logs. LiveLOADS was brought in to make the answer a byproduct of the work instead of a project of its own.
Quoting, tendering and paperwork moved into one flow. Confirmations file themselves. Nobody's calling a driver at 4:55.
Quote history is searchable. Benchmarks are per lane. A new rate gets compared to their own data before anyone says yes.
Loads, rates and documents are captured as they happen and flow straight into the systems finance already runs. The 5 pm re-keying ended.
LiveLOADS sits on top of what Kegshare already had. Nobody got replaced. No relationship got re-wired, no TMS got ripped out. What changed is that the work now leaves a record, and the record belongs to the shipper.
"Where's my shipment?" gets answered from tracking instead of three phone calls. Status updates and check-ins go out by themselves as loads move.
Every quote, tender, rate confirmation and invoice sits in one record. Month-end freight questions answer themselves from the audit trail.
Kegshare's lane history is searchable, and it's theirs. Benchmark material for every rate conversation from here on.
Twenty minutes on your last 30 days of shipping and we'll show you where they are, with your numbers, not ours. The map is yours either way. Then run the pilot on two or three of your own lanes, with a 90-day free trial and setup behind it.
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