Detention Time Tracker.
An app idea for freight brokers.
Captures arrival and departure times at shippers and receivers and auto-builds detention claims with the paperwork attached.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Freight broker
- The problem
- Brokers spend half the day arguing over detention times. Shippers fight every penny and carriers demand high hourly rates, and the broker is stuck in the middle as go-between.
- The gap
- Toro TMS does detention management but it is built for carriers, not brokers. The broker side in the results is described as a manual go-between role: the broker oversees the claim and chases the shipper. Nothing in the results is a broker-side tool that timestamps arrivals and departures and assembles the claim packag
- Already out there
- Toro TMS torotms.com
Detention management inside a carrier dispatch and billing workflow. Carrier side, not broker side.
- MacroPoint alvys.com
Location tracking used by brokers for visibility. A broker quoted says tracking helps when requesting detention or layovers, but it is tracking, not claim generation.
- DAT Broker TMS dat.com
Broker TMS with rate cons and carrier location. No detention claim workflow described.
- Toro TMS torotms.com
- People asking for it
- Detention claims are becoming a nightmare reddit.com
Broker says he spends half his day arguing over detention times, shippers fight every penny and carriers demand $100/hr for dry van.
- Spent 9 hours at receiver reddit.com
Broker says some customers simply do not pay detention and he sometimes pays out of pocket for wasted time.
- Brokers make more money when you don't file detention reddit.com
Broker describes policy of $50 an hour after 2 hours per rate confirmation, with shippers paying $25, $50 or $65 an hour.
- Detention claims are becoming a nightmare reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Brokers will trust an outside tool's timestamps enough to send them to a shipper as proof, rather than relying on the carrier's own records.
- Test it this week
- Ask five brokers in r/FreightBrokers or by DM to forward one recent detention email thread, then manually build the claim package from it and ask whether they would have sent it as-is.
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