RAALTRANS – freight and available vehicle database
How does it work?
The beginnings of the RAALTRANS company in 1992
The founder of the RAALTRANS databank and this system of sharing transport and free vehicles in general, Radek Žilka, was close to trucks and shortly after the Velvet Revolution, he got behind the wheel of a LIAZ truck. He drove a LIAZ truck across Europe from the Atlantic to the Caucasus. During this period, he began to think about a system for sharing traffic information, then gained experience as a dispatcher in a forwarding company, and in September 1992, he and his wife Alexandra founded the RAALTRANS databank. At a time when there was no internet, mobile phones, or yellow pages, finding and recruiting companies to a completely new system was a huge effort and hundreds of thousands of kilometers traveled. At that time, offers were sent to all users by fax, so during the day, with the phone to his ear, the offers were collected, sorted, and written into lists, and during the night, the lists were faxed to all companies so that their dispatchers had the necessary information at hand in the morning.
This year we also establish a branch in Slovakia
And we also move from one room in the founders' family's apartment to an office in the HK Glass Institute. The main reason is the need for a larger number of telephone lines, which could not be brought to the apartment in the panel house
A fax offer mailing works in parallel, SW for DOS and Windows.
Photogallery
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- One of the first lists of transport offers and available vehicles sent by fax (1992)
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- Questionnaire for adding data to the list of companies (1993)
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- Sample of lists of offers faxed in 1993
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- one of the first company lists
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- Founder R. Žilka at the first server (ca. 1995)
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- Fax, fax, fax, fax, fax, PC, PC, PC, NTB… the first office (ca. 1995)
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- Long-time colleague and current director V. Novák (1995)
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- Our long-time headquarters, before reconstruction (1996)
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- And after reconstruction (1997)
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- Our advertisement on a Droppa truck (ca. 1998)
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- Dispatching office in our house in Plotiště (ca. 1998)
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- Offers on the monitor still in the DOS program (ca. 1998)
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- Modems, modems and modems, they kept increasing (ca. 2000)
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- With modems, there were also increasing cables
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- Demonstration events and training. RAALTRANS Editor, version 4 on the projector (2002)
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- Demonstration events and training (approx. 2002)
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- Our tent at Truckfest in HK (2002)
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- Stand at the Munich trade fair (2001)
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- Warsaw (2001)
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- Munich trade fair and RAALTRANS Editor version 7 on the monitor (2009)
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- Munich trade fair 2009
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- SpeedChain 2014
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- Our colleagues at the Munich trade fair (2017)
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- Colleagues in the dispatching room (2016)
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- We are moving and with us all paper contracts sorted according to RAAL codes…approx. 650 folders (2017)
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- Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the foundation (2017)
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- One of the thematic trainings (2018)
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- User training Nitra (2025)
The RAALTRANS system has been adopted by Europe
RAALTRANS sponsors
For almost the entire time we have been operating, we have tried to support mainly sports activities. The main directions are cycling and football. We are a long-term partner of the professional cycling team Elkov Kasper from Hradec Králové. In football, we support or have supported several clubs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, from children to adults. For example, we can mention clubs from Dohalice, Smiřice or the Slovak Seneca. We also organize the RAALTRANS Cup soccer tournament every year. In addition to sports, we also support the DANETA center, which provides care and services for disabled people, especially children.
Why choose our services?
Our company has over 33 years of experience in operating freight forwarding databanks, which allows us to provide quality and professional services.
