CargoSteps is a platform for automated backloads in B2B express and courier logistics built on a cross company real-time track & trace solution that provides proactive status updates. Processes with SMEs in logistics are very time and cost intensive. The need for transparency and real-time status updates of shipments in the time critical express and courier market is very strong. Also 95% of car to van sized vehicles in this market are driving back empty after delivering a shipment, because those SMEs have only a small regional network that provides them with jobs and with the high pace in this time critical market, they can't organize backloads in time. An essential USP of CargoSteps is the cross company functionality with multiple parties of every size. Small companies usually have no system at all for their daily work and medium sized companies in this market have only isolated solutions that can't be used with their partners and subcontractors. With CargoSteps they can work with any company worldwide in less than 2 minutes. This opens completely new possibilities like the automated marketplace for backloads which you only have with slow and time uncritical general cargo shipments for big trucks with a minimum shipment size of one pallet. Everything below that gets ignored. CargoSteps on the other hand focuses on shipment sizes usually below a pallet but doesn't exclude any larger shipments. With CargoSteps' marketplace companies can improve their turnover about 50% while improving their service and freeing resources with the track & trace solution.