Managing trucking costs with paper-based systems leads to slow, error-prone processes. It requires significant personnel for dispatching, ticket management, and approvals, resulting in frustration. These systems lack real-time visibility into job statuses and project progress, hindering informed decision-making.
You start by saying what the project has to move — how much goes out, how much fill comes back in, and the dates you have to do it between. That is the plan, and everything downstream is built from it. Tragget works out how many trucks that really takes, turns the answer into the truck orders you send your vendors, and then measures what actually lands against what you said you needed.
So the job runs as one loop instead of three disconnected jobs: plan it, dispatch it, then watch the plan come true. On day eight the project tells you where you stand — ahead, behind, or on it — while you can still do something about it. Running ahead of schedule? Stand down trucks you have already booked for later in the week. Falling behind? Order more against the same plan, without re-typing any of it.
Each project holds everything about that job in one place — its address, customer, materials, dump sites, rates and approvers — and opens on three tabs that follow the work from left to right:
Plan — how much has to move, by when, and how many trucks that really takes.
Dispatch — the plan turned into truck orders to your vendors, already filled in.
Trucking — the tracker: the plan against what actually happened, ticket by ticket, day by day.
Three reasons a project pays for software at all. You are buying the trucking rather than selling it, so here is what each one looks like from your side of the job.
Money
Nothing bills until your approver has seen the hours, the rounds and the driver's notes and approved them — so a disputed line is settled before it becomes an invoice, not after.
And because you can see the plan filling up as it happens, trucks you no longer need can be stood down before they roll.
Time
Set out what has to move and where, and the dispatch comes off that plan rather than off a morning of phone calls to find out who has trucks free.
Your trucking companies and their vendors all work the same job, so nobody is re-keying your instructions into their own system.
Status
The tracker separates what has already moved from what is still booked ahead, so you know where the job stands without ringing anyone — and the work still ahead is the work you can still change.
It works on a phone, so that call can be made standing on the site.
Say what the project has to move: cubic metres out, cubic metres of fill back in, and the dates you have to do it between. Tragget spreads that over the working days and shows you the daily target you're actually committing to.
Then it asks the questions that decide the truck count: how long your loader takes per load, the round trip to the dump site and back, your productive hours in a day — and the average payload learned from your own tickets, not a number you guessed.
Slide the fleet size and watch two curves: how much earth moves per day, and how many minutes every driver spends queuing. Add trucks past the point where your loader is saturated and the first curve flattens while the queue keeps climbing — you can see the truck that only adds waiting before you pay for it.
Mix truck configurations to match, or let Tragget suggest the lightest mix that clears your daily target. When the numbers look right, press Ready to dispatch and the dispatch form opens already filled in — material, site, dates and truck count carried straight over. If those days are already booked, it tells you before you double-book them.
Creating a dispatch is one screen. Say what moves and where it goes, pick the day, and write the instructions the drivers will read on their own ticket — no more missing details like in paper-based dispatches. Choose the rig, the number of trucks and the time the first one rolls, then send it to a vendor from your own network.
Both rates sit side by side: what the truck is paid, and what your customer is charged. Tragget prints what you keep between them before you commit to it, and you can price the day by the hour or by the round on the same card.
The approver for the day is named here too — and if the job still needs the traditional paper ticket, you say so here rather than at the scale. The person who signs the tickets off is decided before the first load, not after it.
![The Tragget dispatch builder, filled in: asphalt millings out to Stage 2 north embankment and structural fill back from Jackman Pit, one tridem starting 06:30 on 02/09/2026, vendor Fraser Valley Haulage, approver Marcus Webb, $165 an hour to the truck against $195 to the customer, and a Dispatch button reading Dispatch [1].](images/project_dispatch_build.png)
A week on the same job is mostly the same day again. Every dispatch already sent on a project stays on the page — vendor, day, how many trucks, what type — and one press loads any of them back into the form with its rounds, materials, sites, rig and vendor already in place. Change the date and send it.
Rounds are pre-set on that form rather than guessed at the scale: which site takes the load, what goes out, and — when the trucks bring something back — where they pick it up and what they bring. Add a round, delete one, or copy the set across as the day changes shape.
So duplicating your dispatch plan for the week is a date change, not a form filled in from scratch every morning.
Open the project on any day of the job and the first thing it prints is the one number that matters: how far ahead or behind the plan you are, in cubic metres. Not a list of statuses to interpret — a verdict.
Under it, two curves on the same chart: what the plan asked for by today, and what has actually landed against it. The gap between them is the job. Tragget carries the shape of that gap forward into a forecast finish date, so a week of quiet under-delivery shows up as a date that has moved, not as a surprise at the end.
Every load a driver closes attributes itself back to the plan line it was hauling for, so the tracking is built from real tickets — the same tickets that become the invoice — and not from anyone typing progress into a spreadsheet.
Seeing it is half of it. The other half is being able to act while the job is still running.
The tracker separates what has already happened from what is still booked on a date ahead — and the work still ahead is the work you can still change. If the plan is coming true faster than you costed it, stand those trucks down before they roll and you never pay for them. If it is slipping, dispatch more against the same plan. You can still control rounds and add rounds on a job you are paying by the round, and every one of those decisions lands back on the same curve.
It works on a phone, so the decision can be made standing on the site rather than back at the office.
When a job is completed, the assigned approver receives a notification from Tragget. They can quickly review job details, hours worked, and driver notes.
If a paper ticket is required, it's accessible alongside the Tragget ticket. Approvers can make necessary modifications and add notes, ensuring accuracy.
Once approved, the ticket is closed and ready for billing.
Approved tickets are what the margin is counted off, so that is where the project's numbers land: see how the work gets billed, and what the job actually made.
Tragget gives every project efficient dump truck solutions that save both time and money. Plan and execute your projects with precision, ensuring success at every turn. It's time to take your earthmoving work to new heights with Tragget.
