One system for your loads, your trucks, your drivers, and your customers.
OpenRoad enters the loads, tracks detention at every stop, keeps your customers informed, and plans the road ahead — so your dispatchers spend the day on judgment calls, not data entry.
1 month free · No credit card
Your best dispatcher can find a reload in a dead market, calm an angry broker, and reroute around a storm — all before lunch. So why is half their day spent retyping rate cons and answering "where's my truck?"
OpenRoad was built inside a 500+ truck carrier to take the typing back.
Here's what the day looks like when the busywork runs itself.
The loads enter themselves.
Every load used to start the same way: a rate con lands in the inbox and a dispatcher retypes it — stops, references, rates — while three more pile up behind it.
In OpenRoad, once the rate con PDF is uploaded, the address info for pickups, deliveries, linehaul, fuel, and every other detail is captured and saved in seconds. The rate on the invoice always matches the rate on the rate con — and dispatch gets its time back for the work that actually pays: looking for the best loads and matching them to the right drivers.
Detention tracks itself.
No dispatcher covering ten trucks can babysit arrival times. That's how detention money leaks — the truck sat four hours, the broker wasn't notified on their timeline, and the charge was never billed. Not disputed. Just gone.
The moment a truck rolls through a facility geofence, OpenRoad starts the timer. The broker gets the 30-minute warning, the started notice, and the final summary — on the schedule they require to actually pay. And the board flags any load trending late while there's still time to do something about it.
“We recover thousands of dollars in detentions that previously got missed when we depended on dispatchers tracking driver arrival times. Missed detentions were upsetting drivers and reducing our profitability. With OpenRoad TMS, this is no longer an issue.”
Vin Mickevicius, Director of Operations · GP Transco
Track and trace runs itself.
Every broker wants the same three updates. Until now, every one of them called to get them.
Pickup confirmed, delivery confirmed, live ETA in between — sent to the broker and the customer the moment they happen. Your dispatchers stop being answering machines. And your brokers learn something better than any sales pitch: this carrier's loads update before you think to ask. That's what "preferred" is made of.
The road plans itself.
A toll-heavy Northeast run and a wide-open Midwest lane are different problems. Most systems route them the same. The difference lands on your P&L, load after load, all year.
OpenRoad TMS is powered by Trimble Maps and plans the road per load — route and toll profiles compared and priced, fuel stops chosen by price instead of exit preference, and weather checked against every active route before it becomes an incident. And if a truck leaves the plan, dispatch knows in the moment, not in the explanation afterward.
Home time plans itself.
A serious challenge in operations isn't always the freight. Often it's the weekend off you promised a driver — and the Friday reload that quietly broke it.
In OpenRoad, home time is a rule the planner enforces, not a note dispatch hopes to remember. PTO accrues by your rules and shows in the driver's app — the last day off and the current balance, facts instead of arguments. The system even suggests the next best weekend to give a driver a rest. Drivers stop wondering. Dispatch stops apologizing. Turnover stops climbing.
The scoreboard keeps itself.
Every fleet has a dispatcher who runs circles around the rest — and a gut feeling is all anyone has to prove it. Meanwhile, the drivers who quietly make you money look the same on a whiteboard as the ones who quietly don't.
OpenRoad keeps score automatically: miles, empty miles, revenue, and on-time performance, calculated per driver and per dispatcher, every week. Your best people get recognized with facts. Coaching conversations start with numbers instead of opinions.
By end of shift, the loads entered themselves, the brokers got their updates, and every detention timer ran on its own. Your team spent the whole day dispatching.
That's the point.
Battle-tested on 500+ trucks before it ever met yours.
Rate confirmation PDFs — upload one and the load builds itself. For larger carriers, we can set up email forwarding, so rate cons sent to a dedicated address create loads in the system automatically.
No — it runs on your existing telematics (Samsara or Motive) feed. If your trucks are tracked, your detention is tracked.
Recipients are set per load or per customer, so every broker gets exactly the updates they want — and nothing they don't.
Most trucking companies get going in 2–3 weeks. The 1-month free trial is more than enough time to get your teams trained and start seeing results — before you've paid a dollar.
One system. Every seat in the office.
Invoice the day of delivery and settle pay without manual math.
Everything a driver needs — loads, docs, and pay — in one app.
Stay compliant, catch risk early, and keep files audit-ready.
See the real numbers behind every truck, driver, and lane.
Plan dedicated lanes ahead, score every lane, and keep the contract.
Put the busywork out of a job.
1 month free · No credit card · Built and battle-tested inside GP Transco's 500+ truck fleet