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Freight moves on information.

Consignments, PODs, rate cards, DIFOT, and the customer who rings because nobody told them the truck is late. I did not just read about this domain: I built a working freight platform in public, rating engine and event log included, and you can compile it before you ever talk to me.

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Live proof

Use it. Right here.

The reference build's dashboard logic on fixtures: advance a day, watch statuses move and the on-time rate change, then run the overdue sweep.

live demoOperations board

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Derived from the event log, so it cannot drift. The complete build behind this is public and compilable, fifty-two checks passing.

The work

Where the hours go, and come back.

Operations you can see

On-time percentage, overdue consignments, average and p90 transit times by lane, derived from an event log rather than a column somebody forgot to update. The reference build shows exactly this dashboard running.

Rating and paperwork that reconcile

Chargeable weight at the cubic conversion, fuel levies, GST, effective-dated rate cards that survive an audit, invoices that match the work. The arithmetic in my public build reconciles to the cent by construction, with the tests to prove it.

POD without the glovebox filing system

Proof of delivery straight from the driver's phone to cloud storage, attached to the consignment, offline-tolerant, per mobile apps. The customer portal that answers "where is it" before they ring is the same project's second week.

The sweep that rings you first

A watcher that flags consignments blowing their window before the customer notices, drafts updates a human approves, and turns exceptions into a morning list instead of an afternoon of apologies. Wired per AI development.

Proof, not promises

Compile the freight platform yourself.

Linehaul is a working slice of a transport platform I keep public: consignments, rating, an event-logged delivery lifecycle, an operations dashboard, 52 automated checks. It exists precisely so an operator can judge the workmanship on their own domain before spending a dollar. Few developers will show you that much.

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Fair questions

Before you ask.

We run spreadsheets and a TMS that hates us.
Common, and fixable in either direction: automate around the TMS you keep, or replace the spreadsheets with something small and yours. The audit of what the spreadsheets actually do comes first, because they always do more than anyone admits.
Our rates live in the ops manager's head.
That is a single point of failure earning a wage. Effective-dated rate cards in a database keep every historical charge explainable and every new quote consistent, and the ops manager gets promoted from calculator to decision-maker.
Drivers won't use another app.
Agreed, so do not give them one worth hating. One screen, works offline, three taps to a POD. Drivers reject apps that make their day longer; they keep the ones that end arguments about whether something was delivered.