Intermodal TMS
Choose rail or truck for each load, with the cost and the days side by side.
Domestic and international intermodal is a dray, a rail move and a dray again, and the ramp cutoff decides whether this week's load makes the train. Roadmark compares truck against rail on every lane and lets the Planning agent make the call, with its reasons attached.
Truckload$2,150.00 · 1 day
Arrives Wed, two days before the dock will take itIntermodal$1,540.00 · 4 days
CN intermodal trainDelivered Sat 10:00, inside the windowPlanning agent recommends intermodalSaves $610.00
- Fenwick Foods only receives Friday and Saturday, so the extra three days cost nothing
- Today's dray reaches the CN Brampton ramp at 16:40, ahead of the 18:00 cutoff
- About 130 kg less CO₂ than the truck, 260 kg against 390 kg
One load, five hand-offs, and a cutoff that decides the week.
- Prairie Foods DCMississauga ONPicked up Tue 14:10
- CN Brampton ramporiginIn-gated Tue 16:40, cutoff 18:00Departed Tue 21:40
- CN Bedford ParkChicago rampArrived Fri 06:10Available Fri 14:00 · last free day Sun
- Fenwick FoodsChicago ILDelivered Sat 10:00Empty back Sat 16:00
- Northline Cartage
- CN, about 3 days by rail · status by EDI
- Lakefront Drayage, partner
Miss the cutoff, and it waits for tomorrow's train.
CN Brampton rampCutoff 18:00
- 48285 · Prairie Foodsto Chicago ILIn-gated 16:40Made it
- 48286 · Northgate Hometo Memphis TNETA 18:20, 20 min lateWill miss
- 48287 · Lakeshore Grocersto Chicago ILMissed pickup at origin · rebooked on tomorrow's trainRebooked
CPKC Vaughan rampCutoff 17:30
- 48288 · Prairie Foodsto Detroit MIOn site, loadingAt origin
- 48289 · Northgate Hometo Cleveland OHETA 17:10On time
Tender the far-end dray the way you'd tender any load.
Lakefront Drayage$340.00
Ran this ramp 22 timesInsurance current
Load 48285 · $340.00
One customer invoice, with the rail and both drays reconciled behind it.
- All three bills matched what was quoted; nothing held for review
Questions
Questions before choosing rail.
How does Roadmark decide between truck and rail?
It compares cost and transit days for both modes against the consignee's receiving days, and the planning agent recommends whichever wins, with its reasons attached, such as extra rail days costing nothing when the dock is closed anyway.
What happens if a dray misses the ramp cutoff?
Today's loads are grouped by ramp and cutoff, with a flag on any dray that's going to miss. A load likely to miss gets rebooked on tomorrow's train before the cutoff passes, not after.
How is the far-end dray tendered to a partner carrier?
When delivery is past your own fleet, Roadmark tenders the ramp-to-door dray to a partner drayage carrier through the carrier portal, priced and ready for them to accept and sign the rate confirmation.
How is one intermodal move billed to the customer?
The customer gets a single invoice, while Roadmark matches the rail carrier's bill and both drayage invoices behind it to what was quoted, holding anything that doesn't match for a person to review.
Can I track each leg of an intermodal move?
Yes. Each load shows who has it, leg by leg, and the railroad's own status messages arrive by EDI and show up here in plain words. For international containers, availability and the last free day at the ramp come in automatically too.
Thirteen modes, one platform.
Every mode runs on the same customers, loads and invoices, so a company that runs more than one sees them together.
Bring this week's lanes. We'll compare them live.
Send us a week of lanes that could go either way. In the call, you'll see the truck-against-rail comparison Roadmark would have made, lane by lane.
- Your ramps, cutoffs and partner carriers
- Real transit and cost, not a rate card guess
- Domestic, international, or both