JLF

What JLF does

JLF (Transports JLF) is a privately held French road freight transportation and logistics company headquartered in Seclin (4 rue de Lorival, 59113) in the Hauts-de-France region. Founded in 2003, the company operates with a workforce of 11 to 50 employees and maintains a traditional regional trucking profile. The company's public website currently displays a 'site en cours de mise à jour' (under update) placeholder, indicating limited current digital surface area and ongoing web maintenance.

The company's service offering is structured around four operational pillars: driver (conducteur), operations/exploitant (exploitant), logistics (logistique), and administrative/office functions. There is no evidence of proprietary technology, telematics platforms, or digital freight-matching tools; operations are described in terms of human-role categories rather than software or automation layers. The recruitment pages list full operational coverage across these four pillars, indicating a vertically integrated single-site carrier model rather than a brokerage or asset-light model.

JLF's business model is based on transaction fees per freight shipment. Customer acquisition is conducted directly through phone, fax, and an online quote request form, with no disclosed broker, marketplace, or platform intermediation. The Seclin address — near the Lille metropolitan area and the A1/A27 motorway corridors — points to a regional carrier serving businesses in northern France and the Benelux-adjacent logistics corridor, with customer segments of local and regional shippers rather than national accounts or freight marketplaces.

Name

JLF

Legal name

Transports JLF

Website

https://astransports-jlf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

JLF (Transports JLF) is a French freight transport company based in Seclin, founded in 2003. It provides regional road haulage services with 11-50 employees across driver, operations, logistics, and administrative roles, serving local businesses via phone, fax, and quote requests.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Seclin

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Freight transport services: JLF generates revenue through providing freight transport and trucking services to businesses. The company operates as a traditional freight carrier offering goods transportation, likely on a per-shipment or contract basis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

JLF (Transports JLF) operates a road freight and trucking service out of Seclin in northern France, hauling goods for business customers primarily in the local and regional area. The company supports its transport operations with in-house functions for drivers (chauffeurs), operations (exploitants), logistics coordination, and administrative/office (bureau) staff, and accepts new work via phone, fax, and online quote (devis) requests.

Product overview

JLF operates as a traditional freight transport company offering trucking services. The company provides goods transportation with a fleet of trucks, serving clients through services including driver, operations, logistics, and administrative functions. The company structure includes dedicated teams for transport operations, fleet management, and customer service. No digital or software products are offered; the company provides physical transportation and logistics services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transport de marchandises (Freight Transport) Core trucking and freight haulage service operating primarily in the Seclin area of northern France; delivers goods transport for local and regional business customers via the company's fleet.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Geodis: Geodis is a France-headquartered global logistics and road-freight operator. It is a broad incumbent competing with JLF for the same regional shipper base in northern France but at vastly larger scale and with a full forwarding/contract logistics portfolio.
• Heppner: Heppner is a French transport and logistics group with strong road-freight and forwarding operations in northern France. It competes for similar mid-sized regional shippers as JLF, but with national network coverage and a broader multimodal offering.
• STEF: STEF is a major French temperature-controlled and general freight transport and logistics company. While biased toward cold chain, its general freight and distribution operations overlap with JLF in the Hauts-de-France region at a much larger scale.
• DB Schenker: DB Schenker is one of Europe's largest land transport and logistics providers. It competes with JLF in the same northern-French road-freight lanes but offers integrated European network, forwarding, and contract logistics services far beyond JLF's scope.
• Dachser: Dachser is a German-headquartered global road-freight and logistics integrator with significant French operations. It competes with JLF for industrial and retail shippers in northern France through its European groupage and full-truckload networks.
• XPO: XPO is a major asset-based truckload and less-than-truckload operator in Europe (including through the former Norbert Dentressangle). It is a broad incumbent competing with JLF in French road freight but at a much larger fleet and network scale.
• Kuehne+Nagel: Kuehne+Nagel is one of the world's largest freight forwarders, with a major road-freight and contract logistics presence in France. It targets many of the same industrial and retail shippers as JLF but at a global, multimodal scale.
• Transalliance: Transalliance is a European road-freight group (part of Jacky Perrenot) offering full-truckload, groupage, and logistics services across France and the Benelux. It is a relevant broad incumbent peer given overlap with JLF's northern-French full-truckload and regional freight focus.

Regional players

• STG: STG (Société des Transports Gautier) is a French regional road-freight and logistics carrier with operations across western and northern France. It is a more direct mid-sized comparable to JLF in customer type (regional B2B shippers) and service mix (general freight, logistics).

Emerging players

• Chronotruck: Chronotruck is a French digital freight marketplace that matches shippers with road-freight carriers. It is not a direct operational peer to JLF, but it represents the digital procurement layer that threatens traditional small carriers like JLF by routing demand around them.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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