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Make every shipment work better.

We build tools for the call your dispatcher is on right now. A new job, a tight truck, a breakdown, a quote.

Stop 1KV-2041 by the door

Every example uses Kestrel Freight, a made-up carrier with one depot and two trucks. Vehicle A takes 12 pallets, Vehicle B takes 10.

Fleet operators run their own trucks. Brokers hire carriers. Each section says which it’s for.

01Plan the deliveriesFor fleet operators

Give every delivery a workable place in the day.

Tomorrow sits on one timeline, with the windows and the hours your drivers already work. A new pickup shows which truck can take it, and which stop would miss its window.

Example workflowTomorrow’s deliveries · Kestrel Freight (fictional)Example drive times
A new pickup request arrivesKV-2046 · 2 pallets · collect Glenway Works 09:00–12:00 · deliver Hollin Yard 12:00–16:00

Two stops miss their windows. Fairholt arrives at 12:12 after a 111-minute drive back west. Elm arrives at 15:24. Both windows have closed.

Switch the option.

  1. Switch where the job goes
  2. Click a stop
07:0008:0009:0010:0011:0012:0013:0014:0015:0016:0017:00
Vehicle A12 spaces
111 min drive
Vehicle B10 spaces
  • Driver availability
  • New job
  • Misses its window

Fairholt · deliver KV-2045 · 4 pallets · window 10:00–11:00 · arrives 12:12

  1. Situation

    Five deliveries on two trucks. Then a pickup for 2 pallets comes in.

  2. Finding for review

    Proposed assignment: Vehicle B. On Vehicle A, Fairholt and Elm would both be late.

  3. Next step for your team

    Dispatcher reviews the updated route.

See how the day fits together before sending vehicles out.

Drive times here are fixed examples. Real routing needs your vehicle limits, driver rules and stop times built in.

02Plan the loadFor fleet operators

See how the load fits before loading starts.

You see the pallets on the truck, in the order of the drops. The first stop is at the door, or it’s stuck behind freight that isn’t due yet.

Example workflowVehicle B, loaded for three stops · Kestrel Freight (fictional)Illustration, not a certified loading plan

You can use this.

  1. Switch the arrangement
  2. Click a shipment
  3. Step through the stops
  4. Play the stops
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Everything fits. But the first drop is at the front, behind five pallets for later stops.

1.2 × 1.0 × 1.5 m · 840 kg · No, fragile top

  1. Situation

    Seven pallets for three drops, and the order Vehicle B delivers them.

  2. Finding for review

    The first delivery is loaded behind later deliveries. The proposed arrangement fixes that.

  3. Next step for your team

    Warehouse team checks the plan before loading, including weight and securing, which this doesn’t assess.

Give the loading team a plan they can inspect before moving freight.

An illustration, not a certified safe-loading plan. It doesn’t check weight distribution or securing. We’d build it on proven packing tools. There isn’t a Pontian packing engine behind the drawing.

03Handle the disruptionFor fleet operators and brokers

Find the next workable move.

A truck is off the road before it leaves the yard. Dispatch sees what it was carrying, and what still fits on the truck that’s running.

Example workflowVehicle A off the road · Kestrel Freight (fictional)Starts from a recorded vehicle-status update
06:30Workshop: Vehicle A is unavailable before departure.Vehicle B leaves at 07:30

You can use this.

  1. Switch the plan
  2. Click a delivery
  3. Preview the update
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  1. Situation

    Vehicle A is unavailable before departure. Vehicle B has some remaining capacity.

  2. Finding for review

    One delivery moves onto Vehicle B. Fairholt doesn’t fit.

  3. Next step for your team

    Dispatcher confirms the reassignment and reviews the unresolved delivery.

Give dispatch options and consequences in the same place.

For brokers, the other options are other carriers. Everything else works the same way. It starts from a recorded status update. It doesn’t predict breakdowns or track trucks live.

04Prepare the quoteFor fleet operators and brokers

Turn a shipment request into a quote you can explain.

Most requests show up as a short email. We price it from your rate card, and each line names the rule behind the number. This one is the Glenway job on Vehicle B.

Example workflowRequest Q-0118 · Kestrel Freight (fictional)Example rate card, not market rates

You can use this.

  1. Switch the step
  2. Click a quote line

Orders desk, Glenway Works · Today, 14:05

Can you collect two pallets tomorrow morning and deliver them that afternoon? They’re at Glenway Works, Unit 4, going to Hollin Yard, Gate 2.

Reply · Today, 14:20

Each pallet is 1.2 × 1.0 m and 1.4 m high, about 380 kg. They can’t be stacked, and there’s no forklift at Hollin Yard.

Glenway adds 35 km, at $2.00 a km.

Draft total$241.00

Draft, not sent. It assumes the pallets in the reply, a tail-lift, and a truck your dispatcher confirms.

  1. Situation

    A two-line email. No pallet sizes.

  2. Finding for review

    A draft quote with its assumptions.

  3. Next step for your team

    Commercial team reviews the price before sending.

Respond with a price your team can stand behind.

For brokers, start from the carrier’s cost and add your margin. That’s a separate sum. This rate card is an example. It isn’t market rates, and it isn’t a profit figure.

How we start

Start with one part of the operation.

We pick one workflow with your team and test it on real days before going further.

  1. 01Replay a few past dispatch days.
  2. 02Plan loads for one truck and one cargo type.
  3. 03Rehearse one disruption you see often.
  4. 04Quote one kind of shipment, with review.

Pilot scopes, not promises about delivery or savings.

Your team helps judge whether the output is workable.

Where does your operation lose time, space, or margin?

Tell us about the deliveries, loads, breakdowns or quotes that keep landing on your desk.

Talk through your operation