Motion Traction · In development
The system for traction hauliers. You supply the truck and the driver. Motion Traction handles the admin in between.
Your customer has already planned the runs. You still have to read their sheet, find drivers with the hours, pick the trucks and tell everyone who is doing what. That is the job Motion Traction is being built for.
In development and not on sale yet. The full Motion TMS is live today, with a free plan.
2 of 4 runs manned1 estimate to query1 run needs a driver
Most traction desks run on email and spreadsheets. It works, and it takes hours out of every day. Each card turns over to show the same step with Motion Traction.
Your customer emails a spreadsheet. You copy it, or import it, into your own.
The run sheet is pulled straight from your email into Motion Traction.
Each run is keyed into your own sheet before you can even start allocating drivers or trucks.
The system starts allocating time slots, schedules, trucks and drivers, based on who and what is available.
Who is in, who has hours left and which trucks are free. You check availability one driver at a time.
Every driver is contacted automatically to confirm availability. Their replies are added in straight away, and slots and schedules are double-checked.
You finish the plan, then copy it as a picture or send a spreadsheet on.
One click sends your client the full breakdown: run times, estimates, realistic scheduling, cover, drivers, contact details and more.
The same job, without the retyping. This is the workflow we are building. The screens use sample data.
Choose a step to explore.
The run sheet your customer emails is pulled straight in. Motion Traction reads the runs into one list and shows you anything it is unsure about. You check it before it is saved, so nothing is typed twice.
Run sheet importSample data
Your customerTuesday runs · tuesday-runs.xlsx
Pulled inNothing is saved until you confirm.
Each estimate is compared with a truck-realistic time for the same journey, including the break the driver has to take. Runs that look short are flagged, so you can query them with your customer.
Estimate check · 24 runsSample data
Three runs to query before you accept the work.
Motion Traction suggests a driver and a truck for every run, from who is on shift, the hours they have left and which trucks are free. Drivers are asked if they are available and their replies are added in. If someone cannot take a run, you see the reason.
N-104 · Nottingham to Leeds · 14:00Sample data
You confirm or change it. The reasons are there to help.
One click sends your customer the full breakdown: who is covering each run, the times, the estimates and the contact details. Your drivers get their run details. You see both before anything goes.
Manning sheet · TuesdaySample data
One click, once you are happy.
A client may underestimate the total time between depots and locations. Motion Traction runs its own analysis and gives you more realistic times, so you know before the day starts if anything is going to run short.
A truck is limited to 56 mph, has lower limits on many roads, and the driver has to stop for breaks. Estimates built on car times miss all three.
N-103 · Nottingham to GlasgowIllustrative example
1h 50m short Query this run before you accept it.
Truck times are estimates to help you question a run. They are not a guarantee of journey time.
The tools a traction operator uses every day, in one place. No route planner and no load building, because your customer has already done that part.
Run sheets pulled from your email and read into one list. You check it before it is saved.
Customer times compared with a truck-realistic time for the same run.
Who is in and on which shift, kept in one place instead of another spreadsheet.
See the hours a driver has left before you give them a run.
Which trucks are free, and which are already out.
A driver or truck on two runs at once is flagged before it becomes a problem.
A clean sheet for your customer showing who is covering what.
Run details ready to send to each driver, once you have checked them.
The pictures on these cards are illustrations with sample data.
Pick the one that matches how you work.
You plan your own loads and routes. Orders, planning, drivers, proof of delivery and invoices in one place.
See the full TMSYour customer plans the runs. You supply the trucks and the drivers, and need them allocated fast.
You are hereYou need the manning sheet. Who is on which run and shift, shared with your customer.
See Motion ManningThese products are in development. We would rather tell you where they stand than promise something early.
Traction work is where a haulier supplies the truck and the driver, and the customer supplies the trailer, the load and the route. The customer plans the runs. The haulier provides the pulling power and the person behind the wheel.
Not yet. It is in development and is not on sale. The full Motion TMS is live today, with a free plan for operators running 1 to 50 trucks.
No. Motion Traction is a smaller, focused product for traction work. If you start planning your own loads later, the full TMS is there to move to.
No. In traction work your customer has already planned the runs. Motion Traction checks the times on those runs and helps you put drivers and trucks on them.
We are starting with Excel and CSV run sheets, the kind that arrive as an email attachment. Send us an example and we will tell you how well it would read.
It contacts your drivers to check availability and adds their replies in for you. The finished plan goes to your customer when you click send.
The manning sheet by itself: who is covering each run and shift, shared with your customer. It is the last step of Motion Traction and is also planned as a product of its own.
Pricing is not set yet. Tell us about your fleet and how you work, and we will keep you posted.
Send one over, or tell us how your day runs. We will show you what Motion Traction would do with it.
Please take out driver names and phone numbers before you send a sheet.
