DockDraft

DockDraft is a web app (with optional mobile driver check-in) for warehouses and 3PLs to schedule, enforce, and measure loading dock appointments. It replaces spreadsheets, endless emails, and “show up and hope” arrivals with a rules-based calendar: carrier self-booking, capacity limits by door/equipment/crew, and automatic buffers for late arrivals. Drivers get a link to check in, upload BOLs, and receive a door assignment when ready. Ops managers see a live queue view (arrived, waiting, loading, departed) and can re-sequence with one click while the system notifies carriers. The app produces detention/demurrage-ready timestamps and simple scorecards (carrier on-time %, average turn time, no-show rate). This is not glamorous software, but it directly reduces overtime, yard congestion, and carrier disputes—where real money leaks every day.