Today, you’ll discover how to switch from chaotic attempts to get the current location of your single shipment or multiple trucks with cargo carried by road. It’s time for 101% visibility across your supplies to reduce delays and prevent late deliveries.
Here’s how to monitor truck movements, manage cross-border road transportation, and handle multi-stop deliveries to stay informed about road shipments' progress.
Explore our new guide about the Road Tracking tool by SeaRates & LandRates — the specifically targeted solution for full control over land freight in real time.
How does the tool work?
After confirming your booking, let’s proceed with real-time road shipment tracking of your cargo. The Road Tracking tool is available on both the SeaRates.com (on the top menu or the Tools page) and LandRates.com (the top menu) websites:
Here, you can see the Road shipment type in the All carrier section.
Enter your shipment number or tracking number provided by your carriers to start. Also, you can request multi-tracking to upload a file containing the list of tracking numbers for monitoring at once.
Voilà! You don't have to run across various platforms of the carriers and transportation companies to gather updates about your shipment. All road logistics are visible here, as the tool supports multi-carrier road tracking worldwide.
Let’s check what’s useful in the instant results:
Here is your shipment card with the most up-to-date details of your cargo carried by road:
- Real-time status updates: Booked / Received / Departed / In transit / Arrived / Out for delivery / Delivered / Exception / Canceled;
- Cargo details (the number of packages and their total weight);
- Tracking number and carrier logo;
- Origin and destination points (where the cargo departed from and where it arrived);
- Key logistics event: Predictive and actual ETA tracking for road freight, as well as other data in real-time.
Such accurate live shipment data and status updates ensure instant road freight visibility. This way, you or your logistics team can reduce delivery delays before they impact customers.
Road Tracking dashboard
The live road tracking map visualizes truck movements for accurate location updates.
Moreover, explore the ‘History’ and ‘Route’ tabs on the shipment card.
In the ‘History’ tab, check the complete shipment timeline & events log. Find all major logistics events:
- Pickup and delivery confirmations
- Delay and exception events
- Proof of delivery (POD), when available
The ‘Route’ tab provides detailed insights into the transport journey, with the route history insights:
- Route milestones (pickup, in transit, out for delivery, delivered, exception)
- Extra information provided by the carrier (optionally)
- Historical ETA accuracy
This helps you to forecast delivery times and make a performance & on-time delivery analysis to optimize future road shipments based on verified carrier data. Copy the link to share real time tracking card for the road cargo of your customer or partner.
There’s no chance to miss route changes, so you can manage cross-border or multi-stop delivery road tracking, as well as ensure early delay detection for road transport within a single solution.
Customize with extra benefits
If the urban distribution is necessary for your trade business, or you’re executing time-critical deliveries, we ensure you can customize Road Tracking with the following:
- GPS and telematics integration
- ELD and hardware data sources
- Driver-based mobile tracking
This way, you access last-mile tracking updates and support continuous truck monitoring, accurate stop detection, proof-of-delivery workflows, and last-mile customer notifications integrated with your Road Tracking tool.
White-label road tracking
SeaRates also offers a branded tracking page (white-label) — web widget for road tracking, which can be embedded into your website or customer portals.
Raise the engagement within a wider audience, attracting them with an instant road tracking solution under your brand. Let shippers gain transit time, route details, live updates, and any available insights from road carriers on their shipments right from your source.
API integration
How to synchronize multiple road shipments for clear automated monitoring? The API connection between the Road Tracking and your TMS/ERP/CRM system is the way to ensure the following benefits:
- Automate real-time road shipment tracking
- Predictive ETA for trucks
- Build custom dashboards or customer portals
Check out the API documentation at our Developer Portal to create your own monitoring app or enterprise road tracking solution with the SeaRates Road Tracking SaaS.
To submit your needs for a demo or customized integration of the Road Tracking to our team, just drop a message at [email protected]. Stay tuned for a digital freight management solution that is specifically designed for your demands.
