Four principles
One point of contact
Enquiry, setup and day-to-day business run through the same desk that dispatches your tour.
Repeatability over one-offs
We take on demand that recurs and build a structure from it instead of organising every run from scratch.
Cut-off before kilometres
Whether a tour holds is decided not by driving time but by whether collection and delivery windows are defined in advance and secured within the rotation.
Only evidenced claims
Figures, references and certificates we cannot evidence do not appear in how we present ourselves: no customer logos, no star ratings, no unverified figures, and none in the structured data behind the site either.
Who runs TB LOG
Company details
- Legal entity
- Tunc Bacakci e.U.
- Owner
- Tunc Bacakci
- Registered office
- Lister Kirchweg 21, 30163 Hannover
- Dispatch
- dispo@tb-log.de
- VAT ID
- DE 451 647 415
- EORI number
- DE 382 785 675 136 294
Whoever discusses capacity, time windows and pricing is talking to the owner; queries about a lane land where they are decided. No call centre: disruptions are discussed in the same place the tour was planned.
One-off job or system: what changes in operation
A one-off transport is bought in from scratch every time: new rate, different vehicle, different driver, another briefing at the ramp. Where the demand recurs every week anyway, you pay for that organisational effort again and again without gaining any stability from it. TB LOG starts from the opposite position: whatever repeats is set up properly once and then run as a repeatable operation.
That is why we filter beforehand. Pure spot-market work and one-off transports without a recurring structure are explicitly excluded from our range of services under our terms and conditions; the qualification funnel screens them out at the first step and points them to our partner network. That is an operating decision, not a question of the daily rate: a vehicle committed to a scheduled line is not available for spot work, and the other way round.
How a tour is set up
Every tour is defined through four building blocks before the first vehicle moves.
Lane
Origin, destination, intermediate stops and handover points are fixed as a repeatable setup.
Time window
Cut-offs and arrival times are set in advance instead of being negotiated in day-to-day operation.
Vehicle
Follows frequency, volume and load carriers; on every domestic lane from the Sprinter van (1.1 t) up to the truck.
Rotation
Outbound leg, return leg, buffer and escalation as a single unit. The return load is part of the plan from the outset, on the cross-border corridors as well.
A fixed vehicle and a consistent driver mean the briefing at the works gate, the ramp and the handover point happens once and then holds. Access rules, load carrier handling and on-site contacts do not have to be explained again on every run. That is the part of the saving which never appears in a freight rate, but which costs time every morning, or does not.
The area: 100 kilometres, two axes, three corridors
The regional operating radius from Hannover is set at 100 kilometres: not a marketing figure but the zone in which we set lanes up as daily operations. Beyond the day radius, what decides is not the number of rotations but the cut-off in the evening. Three corridors leave the domestic area, each with its own rulebook.
Day radius up to 100 km
Hannover Braunschweig
65 kmapprox. 50–60 min pure driving time (A2)
daily, several round trips per day possible
tight daily windows, same-day possible
Hannover Wolfsburg
90 kmapprox. 1 hr pure driving time (A2 / A39)
daily, fixed delivery windows (clocked)
JIT/JIS windows, fixed clocked schedule
VW environment, return of empties and load carriers scheduled.
Axes beyond 100 km
Hannover Hamburg
155 kmapprox. 1.5–2 hrs pure drive time (A7)
daily Mon–Sat, overnight leg possible
cut-off the evening before possible, delivery in the morning
Connection into the seaport hinterland.
Hannover Leipzig
260 kmapprox. 3 hrs pure drive time (A2 / A14)
daily Mon–Sat, overnight leg possible
cut-off the evening before, delivery by morning
HAJ ↔ LEJ feeder connection to the Leipzig/Halle air freight hub.
Corridors
Hannover Rotterdam
480 kmapprox. 5 hrs pure driving time (A2 / A12)
daily possible – Benelux shuttle
cut-off the evening before, connection to seaport schedules
Benelux shuttle to NL, BE and LU.
Hannover Paris
880 kmapprox. 9–10 hrs pure driving time
fixed departures, south-west corridors as needed
cut-off the previous day – EU single market, no customs clearance
Connects onto the south-western corridors to Lyon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.
Hannover London
1000 kmapprox. 12–14 hrs incl. Channel crossing
fixed departures by arrangement
customs cut-off the day before, export/import handling integrated
Channel crossing by Eurotunnel or ferry from Calais or Dunkirk. EORI details, origin of goods and pre-declarations are settled before departure; full loads alongside groupage and part loads.
The tour windows are spread across the week: early and late tours Monday to Friday, night lines Saturday to Friday. Which window a lane gets follows from the cut-off times at the destination, not the other way round.
What we commit to and what we do not
Cut-off times, delivery windows, OTIF targets, escalation levels and documented KPI reporting are agreed individually by contract. These are service commitments and expressly not a guarantee within the meaning of section 276(1) of the German Civil Code; contractual penalties are agreed solely in a separate written agreement. We say so up front, because a commitment that is misunderstood fails exactly when you need it.
Contractual basis
- Legal basis
- German Commercial Code (HGB) for freight and forwarding business, supplemented by ADSp 2017 and VBGL, and by CMR across borders
- Liability
- As carrier under sections 425 et seq. HGB, maximum 8.33 units of account per kilogram of gross weight
- Insurance
- Carrier liability insured within customary banking limits; cargo insurance beyond that is arranged separately on explicit request
- Customers
- Exclusively businesses within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law
For the detail, see the services: line-haul explains the principle, and under lanes you will find freight types, vehicle class and the frequent questions for each axis.