Use case · Carriers
Cut empty miles, keep trucks loaded
Make every street-turn and double-move a deliberate dispatch action. Not a mental-math trick your desk pulls off under pressure.
The job today
A dispatcher's real job is keeping trucks loaded. Every empty mile burns fuel and driver hours with no revenue behind it: the import box dragged back to the terminal, the truck bobtailing to the next pickup.
The moves that kill empty miles depend on knowing each container's live state, terminal, and free time: reusing an import empty (MT) for an export load (a street-turn), or pairing two moves into one trip (a double-move). Coordinate that in your head across spreadsheets and phone calls and the match gets missed. The box goes back empty.
With Conterminal
Conterminal gives your desk a dispatch workbench that models real drayage moves. Jobs break into legs (pickup, delivery, return, transfer) and segments, with coordination modes built in: single, double-move, and street-turn. Pairing loaded moves becomes a first-class action on the board, not a trick you pull off from memory.
It runs on live container state written straight into the workspace. Every street-turn candidate is matched against what is true right now, not yesterday's spreadsheet.
How it works
In practice.
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Start from live container state
Around the clock, Conterminal's automation engine signs into terminal, rail, and steamship-line (SSL) systems and writes container and vessel status straight into your workspace. No tab-hopping across a dozen terminal sites. Your board shows where each box actually is: on-water, at-terminal, out with the customer. A fixed source precedence keeps the truth ordered: terminal, then rail, then forwarder, then SSL.
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Model the move the way it runs
Each job breaks into legs (pickup, delivery, return, transfer) and segments, so the workbench mirrors how a drayage move runs on the road instead of a flattened line item. Dispatch is available in an operator-led early-access rollout. Native billing and driver settlement remain in development.
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Pair the moves that erase the empty miles
When an import empty and an export need line up, mark it a street-turn and skip the empty round-trip to the terminal. Pair a delivery with a nearby pickup as a double-move, and the truck runs loaded both ways. The coordination mode is set on the move, so the pairing is explicit and auditable. Not buried in a dispatcher's head.
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Run the whole day from one board
At login, the Operations Hub lands one page: at-risk containers, blocking holds, a vessel-arrival summary, appointment and deadline rollups, and day-over-day trend sparklines. Color is tied to physical state: sky-blue at sea, amber waiting at the yard, fuchsia out with the customer. The desk spots pairing opportunities before a box gets returned empty.
How it works in practice
Connected terminal, rail, and ocean sources keep the shared container record current before the desk commits a street-turn or double-move.
Get started
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Bring a handful of container numbers. We'll show you the arrivals, deadlines, and work Conterminal can resolve for your operation.