Dispatch board
Every load in a stage with driver, equipment, pickup and delivery windows visible at a glance.
Trucking & logistics
Every load, on one board.
Dispatch, driver communication and document capture in one system, so nobody is reconstructing yesterday from a group chat.
Most small carriers run dispatch out of a whiteboard, a phone, and one person's memory. It works until that person takes a holiday, and it never scales past the number of loads they can personally hold.
- Every load on a board with its status, driver and paperwork attached
- Driver updates by text rather than a call that interrupts a drive
- Documents captured from the cab, so billing is not waiting on a scan
- Carrier and customer records that stop you re-vetting the same people
- Settlement and margin per load, visible without a spreadsheet
3–6 wks
Build time
Phones
Works on
$0
Per-user fees
Ended
Paper chasing
What you get
This is what we hand you.
Every load in a stage, drivers updating by text, and the paperwork attached before the truck is unloaded.
Get this built for logisticsPOD received
From the cabinvoice ready
draco-crm · Dispatch boardLIVE
Loads today
26
+4
Docs pending
2
was 19
Avg margin
$412
per load
Booked9
DAL → PHX
dry van · Tue 06:00
HOU → ATL
reefer · Wed
In transit11
OKC → DEN
M. Traoré · on time
Delivered4
SAT → LIT
POD uploaded
Invoiced2
MEM → NSH
paid · $1,840
Sound familiar?
What this usually looks like before we start.
Dispatch living in one person's head, so nothing runs when they are off
Rate confirmations and BOLs arriving days late, delaying invoicing
Drivers calling in for updates because there is nowhere to look
Load margin unknown until someone reconciles it a month later
Carrier vetting repeated from scratch because nobody recorded it last time
What you get
Everything we ship for logistics.
Driver messaging
Status updates and assignments by text, so drivers are not calling in and dispatch is not calling out.
Document capture
BOLs, rate confirmations and PODs photographed from the cab and attached to the load automatically.
Customer & carrier records
Vetting, insurance expiry, lanes and rate history kept once, so nobody redoes the work every quarter.
Settlement support
Pay calculated from the load record rather than reconstructed, with the backup attached.
Margin per load
What it paid against what it cost, by lane, customer and driver, without waiting for month end.
Typical stack
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How it works
From kickoff to live system.
1
Week 1Dispatch audit
We follow one real load from booking to invoice and find where the paperwork stalls.
2
Week 1 – 4Build the board
Load pipeline, driver assignment and document capture, built for a phone first.
3
Week 4 – 5Messaging & reporting
Driver texting, status automation and margin reporting wired up.
4
Week 6Launch & train
Dispatch and drivers trained on the live board, running alongside the old process for a week.
How this gets built
The pieces that make up a logistics build.
Take all of it, or start with one piece and add the rest later. Nothing here assumes you bought the others, and what it all costs is further down this page.
See what a logistics build costs →
Not sure which pieces you need? We'll map it on a 15-min call →
Pricing
What a logistics build actually costs.
Priced for this industry specifically, not one rate card for everyone. Fixed quote in writing before anything starts, and no per-user fees.
Trucking & Logistics Companies
Typical build: 3–6 weeks
Website
$3k – $7k
CRM & automation
$3,500 – $9k
What drives it: Driver-facing capture built for one hand in a cab, and document handling that has to work on bad signal.
By type of logistics business
Owner-operator or small fleet
Web$3k – $4,500
CRM$3,500 – $5k
- Under ten trucks on one dispatch board
- Driver updates by text, not phone calls
- BOLs and PODs captured from the cab
Mid-size carrier
Web$4k – $6k
CRM$5k – $7k
- Multiple dispatchers on the same board
- Settlement calculated from the load record
- Margin per load without waiting for month end
Freight brokerage
Web$5k – $7k
CRM$6,500 – $9k
- Carrier vetting and insurance expiry tracking
- Customer, lane and rate history in one place
- Both sides of the book, joined per load
Starting bands, not quotes. You get a fixed price in writing before anything begins, and it does not move unless the scope does.
From the blog
What we've learned building for logistics.
Common questions
Things clients ask before they sign.
Probably not, if it works. Carriers come to us when the TMS is priced per seat and they are growing, or when it does not fit how they actually dispatch. If yours is fine, we would rather build the pieces around it than replace something that works.
Only if it takes seconds. We build for someone with one hand free in a cab — a text they can reply to, a photo they can send. Anything that needs a login and four taps gets ignored, and then your data is wrong.
Where there is an API, generally yes. Send us what you run and we will tell you honestly what is feasible before you commit to anything.
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