Example Featured row. Service Area: this metro. Listing completeness: 5 of 5.
Methodology
How the record is kept
The rules the LumpList Team works to, and the same rules the code is tested against.
Last read through and confirmed129 agencies on the record today
The listing
How a listing is made and kept
Who is listed
LumpList lists only companies that send crews to the customer's warehouse or dock to unload, load, sort, restack, palletize or rework freight.
A person reads each company's own website to decide.
Listed
Lumping agencySends the crew
The crew travels
Customer's dockWhere the freight already is
Not listed
Customer's freightBrought in by the customer
The freight travels
FacilityThe building it is brought to
Listed: this work, at the customer's dock
- Unload
- Load
- Sort
- Restack
- Palletize
- Rework
Not listed: whatever the website says
- Facilities the customer brings freight to
- Carriers
- Brokers
- 3PLs
- Couriers
- Movers
- Staffing firms
Where listings come from
Most LumpList listings begin as research from public sources, checked by a person against the test above.
Until the agency claims it, a listing is marked Unclaimed: a record of the business, not a statement by it.
Example listing
EL
Example Lumping Co.
UnclaimedUnclaimed listing. Is this your agency?
Not on the record? Add your agency.
Claims
A claim on LumpList is verified by an email on the agency's own domain or a callback to its listed phone, and approved by a person.
Once claimed, the agency edits its own listing.
- Found
In public sources, or sent to the desk.
- Checked
By a person, against the test.
- UnclaimedPublished
On the record, before any claim.
- Claim verified
Own-domain email, or a callback to the listed phone.
- ClaimedApproved
By a person.
Corrections
Every LumpList listing has a Report a problem link that reaches the desk directly. A business that asks to be removed is removed.
On every listing, in these words
Report a problem with this listing
Every count on the site is live.
Refreshed on a schedule
- Missing logos
- Social links
- Google ratings
Never overwritten
- Anything a person entered
The results
What decides the order
How results are ordered
LumpList orders results by how directly an agency's Service Area covers the place searched and how well it matches the services and terms searched, then by how complete the listing is. A search by company name puts the closest name first.
Can an agency pay to rank higher?
No. On LumpList, claiming, being a LumpLogix customer or paying has no effect on order.
One labeled Featured row may sit above the results for a LumpLogix customer that genuinely matches. How placement works
Check it
Search any metro. A Featured row, when one appears, is labeled and sits alone above the results.
Example results
AgencyService AreaListing completeness
Example result. Service Area: this metro. Listing completeness: 5 of 5.
Example result. Service Area: this metro. Listing completeness: 3 of 5.
Example result. Service Area: the whole state. Listing completeness: 4 of 5.
Example result. Service Area: nationwide. Listing completeness: 5 of 5.
Ratings
LumpList collects no reviews.
- Ratings
- The agency's Google rating, shown as Google's.
- Testimonials
- On claimed listings, labeled as the agency's own.
Writing and requests
What the desk writes, and where a request goes
Market profiles
LumpList drafts each market profile from public sources, names the source of every fact, and has a person read it before the page can be indexed.
Agency names and counts come from the live directory, never from the copy.
From a market profile
Garden City Terminal is the Port of Savannah's container facility, with the on terminal Mason Mega Rail Terminal serving both CSX and Norfolk Southern, and Ocean Terminal handling breakbulk and roll on, roll off cargo.
Source: Georgia Ports Authority
Read by a personSavannah, GA profile
Articles
Every LumpList article is written by the LumpList Team, with no invented figures.
Found an error in an article? Write to team@lumplist.com.
Checked
Pieces on law, tax or insurance are checked against the sources they list.
Listed and dated
Those sources close the piece. The date they were checked opens it.
Not legal advice
For information, not legal advice.
Quote requests
LumpList sends a quote request only to the agency it was sent to.
Contact details are emailed only to a claimed inbox or an address on the agency's own domain. Otherwise the request is held until the agency claims. Searching is anonymous.
Your requestSent from one listing
To that agency only
The agencyNo one else
- Delivered
A claimed inbox, or an address on the agency's own domain.
- HeldUntil claimed
Any other address.