One company, two kinds of work, one system.
Plenty of fleets do both. General freight pays the base and container work fills the gaps, or the other way round. The usual answer is two systems, two sets of master data, and a monthly reconciliation to find out how the company actually did.
One set of trucks, drivers and trailers.
The same vehicle does a container run on Tuesday and a general load on Thursday. Splitting it across two systems means two records of the same truck, two odometer histories, and a cost per kilometre that is right in neither. Here it is one truck with one history, whichever kind of job it happens to be on.
- One fleet, one driver list, one set of documents and expiries
- General freight orders and container orders on the same board
- Vessel and transit point surfaces available where they apply
- One HR plan covering rotations across both kinds of work
The split is real. Everything under it is not.
General freight and container work are genuinely different jobs, and you live with that. What you should not have to live with is two records of the same truck, two odometer histories, and a cost per kilometre that is right in neither.
One invoice run, whatever produced the load.
Accounting should not have to know which board a job came from. Completed orders of both kinds land in the same pipeline, take the same VAT treatment from the two countries on the invoice, and carry their own fuel and toll costs.
And one answer to the only question that matters.
Per-truck profitability across both types of work is the reason to keep them together. Revenue, fuel, tolls, driver cost and margin per vehicle, so the decision about which kind of work to take more of is made on the actual numbers rather than on which side of the office shouts louder.
Questions people actually ask.
- Do we pay twice for running both kinds of work?
- No. Pricing is per truck per month, whatever that truck is hauling.
- Do dispatchers on general freight have to look at vessels?
- No. Feature gates decide which surfaces a company sees, so the board matches the work each team actually does.
- Can we start with one kind of work and add the other later?
- Yes. Turning the second on is a setting, not a migration.
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