Features

Department & Truck Categories

Organize check-ins by departments (Vegetables, Dry Goods, Frozen, Refrigerated) and truck types (truck+trailer, semi-trailer, tarp truck etc).

The right truck, the right department

Give every check-in a category — Logistiq routes it to the department that handles it.

Why departments

What problem does it solve?

A warehouse rarely handles one kind of goods. Frozen, fresh and dry cargo need different docks, different teams and different rules — but if every truck lands in the same queue, dispatchers waste time sorting them by hand and a reefer can end up at a dry-goods door.

Logistiq splits the yard into departments, each with its own ramps and team, and gives every check-in a cargo category and truck type. Set the routing rules once and each truck is directed to the department that handles it — no manual triage at the gate.

One queue for everything

  • Frozen, fresh and dry all mixed together
  • Dispatchers sort trucks by hand
  • Trucks sent to the wrong kind of dock
  • No way to give a team just its own work

Departments & Cargo Routing

  • A department per goods type, with its own ramps
  • Every check-in tagged by cargo & truck type
  • Routing rules send each truck to the right zone
  • Each dispatcher sees only their department

Benefits for the whole team

Organise the yard by what each truck is actually carrying.

For the operator

  • Sees each truck's cargo category and truck type at a glance
  • Routes trucks to the right department automatically
  • Assigns ramps that belong to more than one department when needed

For the driver

  • Is sent straight to the zone that handles their load
  • Skips the wrong docks and the guesswork
  • Gets the right instructions for their cargo type

For the manager

  • Runs separate teams for frozen, fresh and dry
  • Gives each dispatcher only their department's trucks
  • Shares a ramp across departments when it makes sense

Frequently asked questions about departments

You create departments (e.g. Cold Storage, Fresh Produce, Dry Goods), each with its own ramps, plus a list of cargo categories and truck types. A driver picks the cargo category and truck type on check-in, and your routing rules map each category to the department that handles it.

Yes. Ramps and departments are linked many-to-many, so a shared dock can belong to several departments and each department sees the ramps available to it.

You map each cargo category to a department once (Cargo Routing). From then on, a truck that checks in with that category is directed to the matching department — dispatchers no longer sort the queue by hand.

The standard European set — truck, truck + trailer, semi-trailer, tanker, platform, tipper, tarpaulin, refrigerated and van — and you choose which ones your warehouse offers on the check-in form.

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