Tiolidya is an autonomous road freight platform that matches shippers and carriers at the right price within seconds. It fills the outbound leg and the return leg, secures every payment and takes the paperwork digital.
Since you opened this page, empty returns on Turkish roads have cost
Daily averages of 16.5 million km, 2.97 million litres, ₺169 million and 7,920 tonnes of CO₂, divided per second.
The real strength of the road
More than 400,000 owner-drivers run their business with a single truck and their own hands. They are the backbone of Turkish road freight, yet finding work still happens entirely by hand: in Facebook and WhatsApp groups, on phone calls and in haggling with brokers. Most of the time they have to settle for whatever load is available at their departure point or truck park at that moment.
Source: industry reports (Ekonomist; Dünya / TIRPORT data).
This is how work is found today
A carrier’s morning, today An illustrative morning
Wakes up at the truck park or the first departure point and opens the groups.
Reads dozens of Facebook and WhatsApp posts one by one.
Calls brokers one after another; most loads are already gone.
Haggles over the phone; the broker takes a cut.
Settles for whatever load is at the park at that moment, often at a low price or in the wrong direction.
Before the truck is even empty, a load that fits the route arrives on the phone at a fair price. One tap: no haggling, no waiting at the park.
There is a face-to-face, cultural freight network built on trust: in tea houses, truck parks and over the phone. We are moving it onto digital, intelligent neural networks. The trust stays, and it scales.
Every carrier has a personal referral link. When the carriers and shippers they invite do business, they earn too. Tiolidya makes its carriers partners in an earnings-driven network.
Instead of chasing posts in groups and haggling with brokers for hours, the right job for your route arrives on your phone at a fair price.
On Tiolidya nobody can post or take a load without verification. Every carrier and shipper goes through KYC; the first trip doesn’t start until documents are checked.
The problem
Road freight in Turkey is powerful but fragmented. Its structural problems hurt not only truck owners but shippers, consumers and the national economy.
According to research
On top of that:
What we solve
Tiolidya owns no trucks, warehouses or stock. Our job is to match the right load, the right truck and the right price, and run the whole process safely from start to finish.
BeforeThe load is dropped and the driver drives empty until a return load turns up.
With TiolidyaThe return load is planned before the truck is empty, matching the driver’s route and home base, offered with a single tap. Kilometres saved are shown to the driver on every trip.
BeforeHours of calls, haggling and uncertainty.
With TiolidyaThe price is calculated from distance, route, cargo type, the day’s fuel price and completed trips. No haggling, one offer.
BeforeCarriers wait weeks for their money, sometimes forever.
With TiolidyaThe shipper pays before the trip; the money is held securely by Tiolidya and released to the carrier on delivery.
BeforeUnknown trucks and unchecked documents.
With TiolidyaNobody gets a load until identity, vehicle and documents are verified. Loads go only to verified carriers.
BeforeLost delivery notes, late invoices, piles of paper.
With TiolidyaContract, e-invoice, e-waybill and proof of delivery in one place. Every step is recorded and traceable.
BeforeEndless “where are you?” calls.
With TiolidyaShippers and consignees follow the truck live along its route; the driver’s raw location is never shared.
The intelligent core
At the heart of Tiolidya, three agents make decisions without waiting for a human. Each does its own job; together they produce one result: the right load, the right carrier, the right price — in under 5 seconds.
Sees in advance where and when a truck will be empty and offers the load to the best-fitting carrier by location, route, vehicle type and the driver’s way home.
codename: Royal RoadOn the Royal Road that started at Sardis, the Lydian capital, messengers switched to a fresh horse at every station. Our matching agent finds the truck a new load at every unloading.
Recognises how each carrier works: favourite corridors, preferred direction home, driving character. It works with the driver’s consent and suggests the jobs that suit them best.
codename: GygesIn legend, the ring of the Lydian king Gyges made him invisible. Our agent knows the carrier, yet never reveals the driver’s raw location.
Calculates a fair price from distance, corridor, cargo type, the day’s fuel price and completed trips. One clear offer instead of haggling.
codename: CroesusCroesus, the Lydian king behind the saying “rich as Croesus”, is credited with the first pure gold and silver coins. Our pricing agent puts a clear, measurable value on every offer.
Carriers of every size
Run your whole fleet from one dashboard and keep your trucks and drivers from coming back empty.
Find loads from your phone with a single truck; guaranteed payment and a full return trip.
The Lydia in our name
The Lydians built a kingdom in today’s Manisa, with Sardis as its capital. According to Herodotus, they were the first to use coins and the first retail traders. From the same land, we are taking the same idea to the road: value you can measure, exchange you can trust, and no road left empty.
Lion-headed coins struck from the electrum of the Pactolus river standardised exchange. Today: one clear, fair price.
Along more than 2,500 km, messengers passed the baton from station to station. Today: trucks running full from stop to stop.
Makers and buyers met in the same market. Today: shippers and carriers on the same screen, with no middleman.
How it works
Market and goal
The figure covers only the spot FTL market. Contract logistics and added services come on top.
Targets for the first 12 months
Roadmap
First a trusted network across all 81 provinces of Turkey; then international return loads to Europe through the Kapıkule border gate.
The team came together and designed the product alongside drivers, the industry and the regulators.
Shipper, fleet, agency and operations dashboards; driver app; payment, invoicing and live-tracking flows are running.
Starting with the industrial corridors, then all 81 provinces; first paid trips and the sales partner network.
From the Balkans to Germany, Italy and France: a load for every truck that would return empty on the Turkey–Europe route.
Trust
Personal data is processed only as far as needed; the driver’s raw location is never shared with third parties.
Documents are issued digitally and linked to the trip record.
Carriers are reminded of their reporting duties on time.
No trip until identity, phone, vehicle and licence documents are verified through KYC.
Insurance options for your cargo and your truck, right on the platform.
A team you can reach if anything happens on the road.
Investors
Our seed round is open for Tiolidya — MVP complete, preparing its commercial launch in Turkey and set to expand into Europe. We share our deck and financial plan on request.
Request the investor deckSales partnership
Instead of a salaried sales force, we grow with people who are already trusted. You earn every time a customer you introduced ships; your earnings are tied to payments in the system and fully transparent.
Apply as a partnerYou handle factories’ finances and know better than anyone who ships what.
You are in daily contact with industrial zones and plants.
The trust you have built is the strongest reference there is.
Write to us about investment or a sales partnership.
or write to us directly: info@tiolidya.com
In the 7th century BC the Lydians struck the first coins on this very land. Tiolidya takes its name from that story: trade whose value can be measured and whose road is never empty.