Road freight overview

The road module runs domestic and cross-border trucking: FTL, LTL, container drayage, and last-mile. It sits alongside the air and sea modules and shares customers, quotes, and invoicing with them.

The three record types

• Shipment — what the customer booked. Has origin, destination, cargo, commercial terms. Same record type used across air / sea / road.
• Trip — a vehicle's journey from a start point to an end point on a given day. Carries one or more shipments or shipment legs.
• Leg — a slice of a shipment's journey. LTL shipments often have multiple legs across multiple trips (pickup → terminal → linehaul → terminal → delivery).

A single shipment can span multiple trips; a single trip can serve multiple shipments. The platform handles both directions cleanly — see trips & legs.

Supported load types

• FTL — full truckload, one customer per trip.
• LTL — less-than-truckload, consolidated cargo across multiple customers.
• Container — 20ft / 40ft / 45ft containers moved between port and yard / customer (drayage).
• Parcel / last-mile — many small stops per trip, typically used with the driver mobile app.

Core flows

1. Quote → rate card pulls road-specific charges (see quotation-road).
2. Book → shipment created with a road service mode.
3. Plan → a dispatcher attaches the shipment to a trip on the dispatch board.
4. Execute → driver accepts trip on the mobile app, updates status stop-by-stop.
5. Prove → POD captured on delivery. See POD.
6. Invoice → charges booked against the shipment(s) and passed to finance.

Owned vs subcontracted

The module handles both your own fleet and hired trucks. Subcontractor trips look almost identical to own-fleet trips on the dispatch board, with additional fields for vendor, vendor trip id, and vendor cost. See subcontractors.