Industries
Automotive & plant logistics
Automotive is Safe & Secure Logistics’ largest business: auto and auto-component loads were 57% of the freight value SSL booked in FY 2025-26. We run shuttles, milk runs, inbound 3PL and spare-parts distribution for a leading automobile manufacturer and its suppliers.
Illustration: a warehouse shown in cutaway, with pallet racks, a forklift moving pallets, a pick and pack line and a truck at the dock door.
What goes wrong
The problems we hear most
- A line cannot wait for a truck: placement against the daily indent has to be reliable.
- Many suppliers and many small pickups make inbound cost balloon without planned milk runs.
- Shuttle lanes run every day, so small inefficiencies compound.
- Spares distribution needs speed and accurate delivery records.
How SSL serves automotive & plant logistics
- Dedicated shuttles on fixed vehicle types against a daily indent
- NCR milk runs collecting from several suppliers in one loop
- Inbound 3PL to assembly plants and spare-parts distribution from Jamshedpur
- Trailers and containers for vehicles, aggregates and heavy parts, including to Nepal
Proof from our registers
What the data shows
From SSL’s own booking register and truck-hire slips. No figure is shown for any single customer.
57%
of freight value booked was automotive and auto components
Basis: SSL booking register, contents keyword-bucketed · FY 2025-26
5,800+
truck hires tagged 3PL (plant logistics)
Basis: hire slips tagged 3PL · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
4,300+
trucks on the Pune ↔ Sanand shuttle (32 ft single axle)
Basis: hire slips · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
Customers
Companies in automotive that ship with us
Named from our own booking, billing and truck hire records and the client list we have published. Logos first, then names. No volumes or terms per customer.
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- ZF Steering Gear
- Fleetguard Filters
Lanes
Where this freight runs with us
- Pune ↔ Sanand (32 ft single-axle shuttle)
- Pune → Jamshedpur (trailers and multi-axle)
- Pantnagar → Pune
- NCR supplier milk runs
- Kolkata, NCR and Pune → Kathmandu
Services
Services for this industry
Dedicated fleets
Fixed vehicles on a fixed lane against your daily indent. It is the shuttle model we run at scale.
How it works →CONTRACT LOGISTICS3PL & plant logistics
Inbound, milk-run and spare-parts logistics run inside a leading automobile manufacturer’s supply chain.
How it works →ROADFull truckload (FTL)
A whole truck for your load, placed against your indent from a network of 21,000+ trucks.
How it works →ROADPart truckload (PTL)
Ship less than a truck. Booked at our branches, consolidated onto linehaul trucks, delivered across the east and north.
How it works →Automotive & plant logistics: common questions
Does Safe & Secure Logistics work with automobile manufacturers?
Does SSL run milk runs?
Can tier-1 suppliers use SSL?
What vehicles does SSL use for auto parts?
Tell us what you ship.
Our desk confirms the vehicle and price for your lane, usually within minutes.