For a container transporter working the big North-European ports — Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Le Havre, Fos — the truck is rarely the bottleneck. The paperwork is.
The drayage admin tax
Every job arrives as an email or PDF and turns into the same manual routine:
- Re-typing the order into your own system
- Confirming the booking back to the customer
- Tracking container numbers, pickup windows and cut-offs
- Chasing free time, detention and waiting charges
- Raising the invoice once the move is done
None of it moves a box — but all of it eats the dispatcher's day.
An AI transport desk
The fix is to let AI handle the admin while you handle the road. Drag in the customer's transport order and the AI desk:
- Parses the route, container number, equipment and pickup time
- Saves the job to your system, ready to confirm
- Sends a clean confirmation to your customer
- Drafts the invoice when the job closes
Free time, detention and getting paid
Clear rules keep everyone honest: a standard 2-hour free time for loading and unloading, waiting and detention agreed before the job, and a fair cancellation rule — no charge 24h out, dead freight if it is cancelled at the last minute. With the terms baked in, disputes drop and invoices get paid faster.
Freightain's container trucking section gives transporters port drayage jobs and an AI desk in one place. You move the containers — AI handles the paperwork.