Start your trucking business and grow with Amazon

Application process

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Amazon Freight Partner Accelerator

To prepare for launch, you’ll participate in an Amazon-exclusive sessions to learn how to establish and optimise your business. You’ll be operating your first truck as an AFP within 4-11 weeks of starting this programme (subject to your experience, O-licence approval and other conditions.)

Accelerator phase
What you'll do

Introduction to trucking

  • Learn about being a business owner within the trucking industry
  • Learn the basics of the Amazon Freight Partner programme and Amazon standards
  • Learn industry standards about safety and compliance from 3P provider

Business setup

  • Set up required business registrations, insurance, and services
  • Hire commercial-licensed drivers and get your first truck

Hands-on experience

  • Optimise business operations and performance
  • Build your fleet

What you'll need

Leadership

You are great at hiring, leading, and retaining a diverse team of professionals

The highest standards

You constantly raise the bar and inspire your team to achieve excellence, even when challenges arise

Determination

You are hard-working and can power through the ambiguity of a fast-paced, ever-changing business

Locations

Amazon Freight Partners operate in regions throughout the United Kingdom. Please request information if you are interested in operating a business as an Amazon Freight Partner located near the following locations, and we will notify you to apply when available in your area. If you are seeking opportunities outside the United Kingdom, please visit our FAQs for more information.

East
  • Bedfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
East Midlands
  • Leicestershire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Rutland
London
  • City of London
  • Greater London
North East
  • County Durham
  • Northumberland
  • Tyne and Wear
North West
  • Greater Manchester
  • Lancashire
  • Merseyside
Scotland
  • Scottish Lowlands
South East
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Hampshire
  • Kent
  • Oxfordshire
  • Surrey
South West
  • Bristol
  • Gloucestershire
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire
Wales
  • South Wales
West Midlands
  • Cheshire
  • Derbyshire
  • Herefordshire
  • Shropshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands
  • Worcestershire
Yorkshire & Humber
  • Lincolnshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • South Yorkshire
  • West Yorkshire

Success stories

I feel so proud seeing my husband start a small business. We have grown so quickly since joining the Amazon Freight Partner programme, and we’ve had no issues. To run Compressed Natural Gas vehicles within our fleet is a great opportunity to lower carbon emissions. We want to invest in our children's future.

Aamna and Mahmood
MRK Transportation Ltd
Proud partner since
 
June 2020

Become an Amazon Freight Partner

Amazon Freight Partners truck navigating a dedicated AFP logistics parking facility