Trimble TruckMate integration through the TruckMate API

How Roadmark connects to TruckMate

Trimble publishes three REST APIs for TruckMate on its developer portal: the TruckMate REST API, for transactional integration with TruckMate's major product areas, such as orders and trips; the Master Data API, for configuration data such as client, vendor and driver profiles; and the Finance API, for invoices, payments and GL entries, from TruckMate 2024.3. Roadmark's connection runs on the first one.

Trimble's access guide sets the terms. The APIs need an existing TruckMate installation and are licensed separately, under license keys 69000, 69100 and 69200. The API server can be self-hosted or managed by Trimble. Every request carries a Bearer token: a TruckMate API key generated in TruckMate, or a short-lived token from the API's Login endpoint. Roadmark uses an API key your admin generates for it in TruckMate's Security Configuration application, so the key is created and kept in your own TruckMate.

What moves each way

When an order is booked in Roadmark, it's created in TruckMate with the shipper, consignee and pickup and delivery windows, the freight details, the accessorial charges and the references as trace numbers, so it shows up in Customer Service and on the dispatch board where your team expects it. As the load moves, Roadmark reads back from TruckMate:

• the trip the order is planned on, with its drivers, power units and trailers;
• the order's status history and the trip's stops;
• the proof of delivery recorded on the order;
• carrier and interliner charges, for the cost side of the load.

Roadmark uses them for tracking, ETAs, the customer's updates and the invoice. TruckMate is built for LTL carriers and also runs truckload, intermodal and multimodal freight, according to Trimble's product page; the connection works the same way whichever of those an order is.

What moves, and what stays in TruckMate

While Roadmark runs one job, everything else carries on in TruckMate. You choose what moves next, and when.

Your ELD, your books and EDI with your customers stay connected either way. A group whose companies run different systems, one on TruckMate and another on McLeod or TMW.Suite, connects each company on its own.

Moving off TruckMate, when you choose

When a company is ready, it moves one job, division or lane at a time, or never. Its TruckMate history stays readable after a job moves, so last year's loads are still there to look up.

Read how switching TMS one job at a time works, and how Roadmark compares with Trimble's TMS lines, TruckMate included, if you're weighing a full move. For TMW.Suite, see the Trimble TMW integration.

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