# Every truck planned before dispatch sits down. > Roadmark plans every truck around driver hours, empty miles and home time, sends each load to the driver's phone, and invoices and settles pay on the POD. URL: https://roadmark.ai/carriers Language: en Roadmark plans tomorrow's board overnight around driver hours, empty miles, home time and appointment windows. Dispatch reviews it in the morning, sends each load to the driver's phone, and billing goes out when the POD comes in. ## The whole day, planned around hours and empty miles. Each truck gets its next load, the empty miles between them and the hours to drive it, from your ELD. Dispatch moves anything with a drag. Loads the fleet can't reach in time go to trusted carriers, already priced. - **214 · R. Diaz:** 11 h drive left · home Friday - **207 · T. Okafor:** 9 h 40 m left · reset Thursday - **231 · A. Brandt:** 10 h 15 m left - **219 · M. Chen:** 34-hour reset until 10:00 - **226 · S. Patel:** Home time - **No unit in time:** Cover out ## It knows every unit, driver and hour. Hours of service come from your ELD every few minutes. Home time, endorsements, trailers and maintenance are on the same card, so the plan never sends a driver somewhere they can't legally or reasonably go. Fuel stops are planned from the tank level the ELD reports and enforced through the fuel card. - **Now:** I-94 near Kalamazoo · load 48213 - **Trailer:** TRL 5317 · 53' dry van - **Home time:** Friday by 18:00, Brampton - **Endorsements:** Hazmat, doubles · FAST card - **Next service:** PM due in 1,240 mi ## Stops, documents and pay on the driver's phone. Drivers see each stop with its door and window, take the POD photo at the dock, and check what they'll be paid for every trip. Status goes back to dispatch without a single check call. ## Invoice on POD. Settle pay without the spreadsheet. When the POD lands, the customer's invoice and the driver's pay line are prepared together, from the same stops and times. Approve both and they post to your accounting system. - Miles from the ELD trip, not the quote - Detention matches the customer invoice times ## 6 things expire in the next 30 days. Roadmark already knows which. Medical cards, licences, annual inspections, permits and insurance are tracked for every driver, unit and trailer. The plan stops assigning anything that would expire mid-trip, and the reminder goes out weeks ahead. Roadmark also produces your quarterly IFTA fuel tax reports. - **Medical card · T. Okafor:** Expires Oct 4 · appointment booked Sep 30 (Booked) - **Annual inspection · unit 231:** Due Oct 9 · shop slot needed (Needs a slot) - **CDL · M. Chen:** Expires Oct 14 · renewal submitted (Submitted) - **Trailer plate · TRL 5340:** Expires Oct 18 (Not started) - **IFTA decals · 12 units:** Q4 decals due Oct 1 (Ordered) - **Cargo insurance:** Renews Oct 26 · your insurance broker has the quote (In progress) ## Keep McLeod, TMW or TruckMate while you try it. Start with planning or tracking. Loads still dispatch from your current system, and Roadmark reads the status back. ## What carriers ask about dispatch. ### How does Roadmark plan the dispatch board? The Planning agent builds tomorrow's board overnight around driver hours, empty miles, home time and appointment windows. Dispatch reviews it in the morning, moves anything with a drag, and sends each load to the driver's phone. ### Where do driver hours come from? From your ELD, every few minutes. Home time, endorsements, trailers and maintenance are on the same unit card, so the plan never sends a driver somewhere they can't legally or reasonably go. ### How does Roadmark plan fuel stops? From the tank level each truck's ELD reports. Fuel stops are planned along the trip, and the plan is enforced through the driver's fuel card. ### What happens to loads our trucks can't reach in time? They go out to trusted carriers, already priced, and show on the same board as cover next to your own trucks' loads. ### Does Roadmark track driver and truck compliance? Yes. Medical cards, licences, annual inspections, permits and insurance are tracked for every driver, unit and trailer. The plan stops assigning anything that would expire mid-trip, and the reminder goes out weeks ahead. ### Does Roadmark do IFTA reporting? Yes. Roadmark produces your quarterly IFTA fuel tax reports, and tracks IFTA decals with the rest of each unit's renewals. ### Does Roadmark track truck and trailer maintenance? Yes. Every truck and trailer has its maintenance schedule and service records in Roadmark, and the next service shows on the unit's card, like unit 214's PM due in 1,240 mi. ### How do invoices and driver pay work together? When the POD lands, the customer's invoice and the driver's pay line are prepared together, from the same stops and times. Approve both and they post to your accounting system. ### Can we try it without leaving McLeod, TMW or TruckMate? Yes. Start with planning or tracking: loads still dispatch from your current system, and Roadmark reads the status back. ## Related pages - [Truckload](https://roadmark.ai/truckload): Hours, deadhead and backhauls - [Driver app](https://roadmark.ai/driver-app): Stops, documents and pay on the phone - [Samsara integration: hours of service and ETAs](https://roadmark.ai/integrations/samsara): Samsara feeds Roadmark hours of service, location and engine data every few minutes, so tracking ETAs, dispatch planning and detention all use current data. - [Detention calculator](https://roadmark.ai/tools/detention): What a truck's time at the dock past its free time comes to, on the invoice and on the driver's pay. - [Roadmark vs Ditat: a side-by-side TMS comparison](https://roadmark.ai/compare/ditat): Roadmark and Ditat, row by row, for carriers, brokerages and asset-based brokerages that run both: automation, AI, companies, modes and pricing. - [TMS for an asset carrier with a brokerage](https://roadmark.ai/blog/tms-for-carrier-with-brokerage): What a carrier that also brokers freight needs from one TMS: one board for its trucks and outside carriers, separate authority and books, margin by division. 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