Live dispatch board — every load, driver, tractor, and trailer in one view that updates as the day moves, instead of a spreadsheet someone has to remember to save.
Dispatch is where a carrier makes or loses its margin, and it is usually the last thing to get real software. The pattern is familiar: a whiteboard, a shared spreadsheet, a group text, and a dispatcher who is the only person who knows where anything is. That works until it does not.
Live dispatch board — every load, driver, tractor, and trailer in one view that updates as the day moves, instead of a spreadsheet someone has to remember to save.
Unlimited dispatcher seats — flat pricing means adding night dispatch or a second planner costs nothing extra.
Separately licensed driver app — assignments, documents, arrival and departure times, and PODs can return from the driver when mobile access is activated.
Hours-of-service awareness at assignment — see available hours before committing a driver to a run, rather than discovering the problem at the shipper.
Multi-stop, LTL, and relay support — interlined and multi-leg runs are first-class, not a workaround with three separate loads.
Invoice on delivery — the POD that closes the load generates the invoice, so billing is not a separate weekly project.
ELD status in the board — connected Samsara and Motive data shows truck position and duty status without a second screen.
The core job is state: at any moment, a dispatcher should be able to see every load and its status without asking anyone. That sounds obvious, but it is exactly what the spreadsheet model fails at, because the spreadsheet only knows what someone last typed into it.
The second job is closing the loop with the driver. Assignments should reach the driver on their phone, and arrival times, departure times, and documents should come back the same way. Every phone call to ask "where are you" is a dispatcher-minute that produces no revenue, and every paper POD that arrives a week late is a delayed invoice.
The third job is turning delivery into money. A load that delivers Friday should be invoiced Friday, not the following Wednesday when someone gets to the billing pile. This is the single most common place small carriers lose working capital, and it is entirely a software problem.
Dispatch decisions have compliance consequences. Assigning a driver who does not have the hours, or whose medical card expired yesterday, or who has an unresolved Clearinghouse status, creates a violation that surfaces later at far greater cost.
Because TruckerPro runs dispatch and FMCSA compliance in the same system, those constraints are visible where the decision is made. Driver qualification status, document expiries, and available hours are attributes of the driver on the board — not facts stored in a different application that a dispatcher would have to go check.
One person planning 10-30 trucks needs speed above all: fast load entry, drag-to-assign, and automatic driver notification. The win is eliminating the calls that confirm what the app already knows.
Several planners on one board need to see each other work without collisions. Unlimited seats mean you staff dispatch for the operation you run, not the license count you bought.
Loads with multiple pickups and drops track each stop independently, with its own appointment, status, and paperwork — so a partially delivered load reports accurately instead of being either "in transit" or "delivered".
Interlined runs where a load changes drivers mid-route are handled as connected legs with per-leg pay, rather than being split into separate loads that break the billing and the mileage.
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View plansIt is the system a carrier uses to plan and track freight: creating loads, assigning drivers and equipment, communicating with drivers, tracking status and documents, and generating invoices on delivery. It replaces the whiteboard, spreadsheet, and group-text model with one live record every dispatcher can see.
Dispatch is the operational core of a TMS. A full TMS adds billing, settlements, driver qualification, compliance, IFTA, and reporting around it. Some vendors sell dispatch alone; the trade-off is that delivery, billing, and pay then live in separate systems with manual handoffs between them. TruckerPro includes dispatch inside the complete TMS at one price.
The web dashboard works in a modern browser. Driver-app eligibility starts at Mobile, but driver mobile access requires a separately activated licence tier. The separate fleet dispatcher app is currently a preview; confirm release access during the demo.
Yes, when your ELD is connected. Samsara and Motive integrations feed duty status into the platform, so available hours are visible at the moment of assignment rather than discovered later. The same data drives the Part 395 audit that flags patterns across the fleet.
Staff users are unlimited on carrier plans, so adding a night planner or weekend dispatcher does not add a staff-seat charge. Driver mobile licences and other separately activated services can still affect the total.
Yes. Multi-stop loads track each pickup and delivery independently with its own appointment and paperwork. Relay runs where a load transfers between drivers are modeled as connected legs, so each driver is paid for their portion and the load bills as one shipment.