A transport system that knows every trip's cost — and never loses a delivery slip again
Many transport businesses dispatch through chat, work out costs at month-end, and hunt for delivery slips when customers chase them. We build systems that connect trip planning, driver job sheets, proof of delivery, per-trip costs, and billing — so you know the true profit of every trip, customer, and route.
- Cost per trip
- fuel, labor, and tolls combined into true trip cost
- POD kept
- delivery proof photographed to the system instantly
- Trucks ready
- scheduled maintenance warns before roadside failures
- 10+ yrs
- cross-industry experience
The short answer
Which number should a transport business know first?
A transport business should know true cost per trip before anything else — fuel, depreciation, maintenance, wages, and the fixed-cost share — because a job priced below it is a free run that looks like revenue. Next, driver-phone job sheets with digital proof of delivery, which lets invoicing happen the day of delivery instead of two days after the paper returns.
Key facts
- Cost per trip must include vehicle depreciation, not just fuel and wages
- Moving fuel prices should flow into costs automatically, not wait for year-end review
- Digital PODs pull invoicing forward two to three days every cycle
- Self-serve status pages end the calls that consume the office's day
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Job-in to cash collected
A system covering job-in to fully billed
Every part is designed so trucks run profitably, goods arrive complete, and billing matches the trips actually run.
Job intake & trip planning
Incoming jobs assigned to the right truck and route; see which vehicles are free or full — nothing lost in chat.
Driver job sheets on mobile
Drivers see their own jobs, pickup and drop points, and order — no calls back to the office all day.
Photo proof of delivery
Deliver, photograph, and sign on the phone; evidence lands in the system instantly, ready for billing.
True cost per trip
Fuel, labor, tolls, and averaged maintenance combined per trip — know which runs pay and which don't.
Fuel & petty cash draws
Driver draws tied to trips and fully recorded — usage visible against each route's benchmark.
Scheduled maintenance
Alerts by distance or time per vehicle — fewer roadside breakdowns that cost money and jobs.
Billing from trips actually run
Completed jobs with POD roll up into billing statements automatically — every trip billed, none forgotten.
Profit per customer & route
See which customers and routes truly profit — negotiate prices and choose work from data.
Dispatch in chat + a folder of slips
- Jobs scattered across chat groups, easily dropped
- Trip costs known roughly, at month-end
- Paper PODs ride in trucks; lost ones delay payment
- Fuel draws with no benchmark to judge against
- Service intervals live in someone's memory
A system connecting every trip
- Every job in the system, assigned and trackable
- Trip cost visible the moment a job closes
- Digital POD on every trip, ready for billing
- Every draw checked against the route benchmark
- Maintenance scheduled and warned in advance
Common situations
Situations transport businesses often face, and what changes with a system
Real transport situations, and what the system is designed to help with.
Trucks run full every day, yet month-end profit doesn't match the effort
Per-trip costs split by customer and route reveal which work pays and which hides a loss — so you adjust prices or routes from real numbers.
The customer asks for delivery proof — and the POD is in a truck, or gone
Proof is photographed from the driver's phone the moment delivery completes. Every trip has its POD, billing moves fast, and delivery disputes end with evidence.
A truck fails mid-route — past its service interval without anyone noticing
The system tracks each vehicle's maintenance schedule and warns ahead, so servicing happens on planned idle days — not mid-trip with a customer's goods on board.
Why full trucks earn thin profit
Why full trucks earn thin profit
Transport profit lives in the details of each trip. A good system turns those details into numbers you see and act on daily — not averages at month-end.
Request an initial assessmentLosing runs hide inside winning ones
Overall averages let losing routes hide behind profitable ones. Per-trip costing exposes them job by job.
Every lost POD is money collected late — or never
Delivery proof is the condition for billing. Digital POD turns every completed trip into a collectible bill.
Roadside failures always cost more than scheduled service
Towing, urgent repairs, and lost jobs cost multiples of planned maintenance. Alerts make servicing a planned event.
Good data makes price talks confident
Knowing each route's true cost turns customer negotiations from guesswork into standing on numbers.
FAQ
Questions transport owners ask most
The transport and fleet questions we hear most often.
How is this different from GPS tracking?
GPS says where a truck is — not whether the trip profits, the goods arrived complete, or the bill went out. A transport system manages the work, money, and documents of every trip, and can pull data from the GPS you already have.
Our drivers aren't tech-savvy — can they use an app?
Yes. The driver screen is reduced to today's jobs: accept, photograph the delivery, close the job. No typing documents — all management work stays on the office side.
We price several ways — per truck, per piece, per trip. Supported?
Yes. We configure the price structures your business actually uses — charter, by weight, by piece, by distance, or monthly contracts — and the system calculates and bills per each customer's terms.
We only run a few trucks — is a system worth it?
Yes, even for a small fleet: the immediate wins are PODs that never go missing, complete billing, and per-trip costs — money already leaking every month. The system starts small with the fleet and grows with the business.
Can it connect to our accounting or a customer's system?
Yes. Billing statements and payments flow to your existing accounting, and for major customers who want delivery-status data, we connect reports or an API in the agreed format.
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