Convoy Flex Loads

Convoy's new Flex Loads offer pickup, delivery leeway

Oct. 24, 2018
Convoy has added a new "flex loads" feature that allows a shipper to set up a load that can be picked up or dropped off over a window of time or multiple days.

Freight-booking app developer Convoy has added a new Flex Loads feature that allows a shipper to set up a load that can be picked up or dropped off over a window of time or multiple days, helping carriers reduce empty miles traveled and get shippers the better rates.

"Poor appointment-setting is a leading source of wasted time and empty miles," the company noted regarding the new feature. "Even if a driver is able to find a shipment on the right route, the timing frequently doesn't work with their schedule."

Often when choosing loads and mapping out their routes—or having a dispatcher handle that—truck drivers may end up with pickup or delivery times that leave them waiting or covering empty miles. It might be a delivery appointment that leaves too much slack in transit time or one that has a driver dropping off a load, only to wait hours to pick up another at that location.

"Bad appointment times are an issue we have heard about repeatedly from carriers," Convoy pointed out.

The new Flex Loads feature allows a shipper to set a window or date range instead of a point in time for load pickup and delivery. Carriers and drivers can choose what fits best for their schedule.

Meanwhile, shippers using Flex Loads feature open more carrier options and capacity, thereby potentially getting better rates. It increases lead time for a load and can boost a shipper's on-time performance, according to Convoy. 

Check out more from Convoy at https://convoy.com/blog/introducing-convoy-flex-loads.

About the Author

Aaron Marsh

Before computerization had fully taken hold and automotive work took someone who speaks engine, Aaron grew up in Upstate New York taking cars apart and fixing and rewiring them, keeping more than a few great jalopies (classics) on the road that probably didn't deserve to be. He spent a decade inside the Beltway covering Congress and the intricacies of the health care system before a stint in local New England news, picking up awards for both pen and camera.

He wrote about you-name-it, from transportation and law and the courts to events of all kinds and telecommunications, and landed in trucking when he joined FleetOwner in July 2015. Long an editorial leader, he was a keeper of knowledge at FleetOwner ready to dive in on the technical and the topical inside and all-around trucking—and still turned a wrench or two. Or three. 

Aaron previously wrote for FleetOwner. 

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