Transport Rates are computed when a booking is created.  A few important notes on how this rates will be applied:


  • This module will be computed on top of any Quotation. 
  • Will be computed for Haulage and Transport booking.  For Import/Export, one must select type as "Haulage/Transport". 
  • To set the computation, baseCompanySetting transportRateCodes must be set. 


TransportRateCodes - 

To auto add a transport/haulage rate one needs to set the baseCompanySetting and go to section Transport Rate Code - (transportRateCodes).


Rate Computation

The transport/haulage rates are computed based on AreaCodes but can be more detailed than this. There are two stages in matching the rates. The first stage is by the following fields:

  1. TransportType - either Haulage or Transport booking type.
  2. Type (areaCode only supported) - fixed, cannot change.
  3. From - AreaCode from the Shipper Address.
  4. To - AreaCode from the Consignee Address.
  5. Vendor - vendor to do this rate. Leave this blank to use default, or populate this to populate the vendor sell/cost rates. 
  6. Customer - Populate this if you want specific rates for certain customer. Leave this blank for default rates applied to all customers. 

The system will select the transport rate with items matching 1-6 (with customer) first, otherwise, use items matching 1-5 (no customer), lastly, will use the default rate based on any booking that matches items 1-4. If none of it matches, the default costItem (determined in the baseCompanySetting) price will be set. 

Once it found a matching transportRate, will will compute the matching cost rate based on the secondary table below. Similarly, it will use the rate based on the following:

  1. TransactionType - set this to generate a SELL and/or COST rate. Leave it empty if you do not want to set either.
  2. Size - size that matches the rate, mostly 20 or 40.  
  3. TransportType - This is currently not implemented, please keep this on TRIP.
  4. CargoType - DG, HQ etc, if you want to set specific rates for these containers. Leave this blank if you want to have a generic cost.


The system will use the rate based on the following criteria. If 1-4 matches, then try 1-3, then 1-2 and lastly 1. 



Rate is the final value that will be entered into the costItem.


Rate type can be the following:

  1. FIXED - it will set the default weight.
  2. PERCENTAGE - it will set a % of the default rate (From/To areacode without customer or vendor). 
  3. WEIGHT - will set the rate, but also set the costItem based on the sum all all jobs metric tons. 
  4. UNIT - will find a matching unit.


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