5 Things You Didn't Know About: Anyvan

Winner of The GWG Website of the Year Award 2010, Anyvan offers a totally free to use delivery service that gives customers instant access to thousands of transport companies and courier services who are already making the journey and who have space in their vehicles for your items. Here are five things you might not otherwise known about it....

1) Since its launch, Anyvan has... saved the planet over 2,560,000 delivery miles - the equivalent to 4,500,000 kg of co2 - by using part loaded vehicles already making a similar journey.

2) One Anyvan customer described the site as... "the best site since googlemaps."

3) Anyvan has had... as many delivery requests in the last 2 months as it did in the first 16 months of business.

4) About once a month... someone places themselves on the site in order to catch a lift from a van driver making a similar journey. These people are usually students moving from university to home.

5) Anyvan has sent out over... 12.6 million job alerts helping transport providers to find extra loads for their vehicles.

18th October