07:00 — Coffee, dispatch board open, every active load color-coded. Three are at pickup. Five are in transit. By 07:15 I’ve assigned today’s 14 new loads in 8 minutes.
DISPATCH MODULE
Dispatch loads in two clicks, not twelve.
Drag-and-drop load assignment. Driver SMS notifications fire automatically. Geofences mark in/out times so your dispatcher stops asking “where are you?” on the radio.
DISPATCH BOARD
Every load on one screen. Color-coded by status.
No more sticky notes, no more “wait, who took that load?”. The board shows every active load, every truck, every driver — with status pills you can read across the room.
- Drag a load card onto a driver to assign
- Filter by lane, customer, equipment, or status
- Bulk-import loads from a CSV or rate confirmation PDF
- Duplicate the last load for repeat lanes in two clicks
GEOFENCE AUTOMATION
Automatic in/out times. Automatic customer pings.
Drop a 1500ft geofence around a shipper or receiver and CarriersTMS handles the rest. The truck enters, status updates. Customer SMS fires. Detention timer starts. Your dispatcher does nothing.
- ArrivalStatus moves from In Transit → At Pickup. Customer notified.
- LoadingDetention timer starts after free time expires. Logged for billing.
- DepartureStatus moves to In Transit. POD reminder sent to driver.
- DeliveryStatus to Delivered. BOL prompt fires. Invoice queued.
WHAT’S IN THE DISPATCH MODULE
Built for the way carriers actually run.
01 / SMS
Driver SMS Pipeline
Assignment, pickup details, POD requests — all push as SMS. No app to install on the driver’s phone.
02 / VIEW
Custom Board Views
Save filtered views for each dispatcher. One sees flatbed, another sees reefer, another sees only this customer.
03 / BULK
Bulk Load Import
Drop a CSV or paste a tender. Loads parse, customers match, lanes resolve. 50 loads in 30 seconds.
04 / SHARE
Public Tracking Link
Send your customer a clean URL. They see ETA, location, and status — without seeing your other loads.
05 / RATE
Rate-per-Mile Targets
Set a $/mi target by lane or customer. Loads under target flag immediately. Brokered loads get a take-rate hint.
06 / TEAM
Multi-Dispatcher Roles
Senior, junior, after-hours. Permissions and audit trail per user. Nothing happens to a load without a fingerprint.
FROM THE FIELD
A dispatcher’s typical Monday on CarriersTMS.
Customers get pickup pings before I even get a chance to type a check-call.
Haven’t opened our old TMS in 60 days. Don’t miss it.