Noticing a tender that was never actually accepted
A 204 goes out and a 997 comes back, and the file looks answered. Nothing says anyone will haul the load. It confirms the envelope parsed. Acceptance lives in the 990, and a 990 that never arrives raises nothing. Watching the gap means holding each outbound tender against a clock, then listing the ones with neither an accept nor a decline recorded by the time the pickup window opens. Purpose code matters too, because a change tender reissued under code 04 restarts the question and the old acceptance no longer answers it.
The same seven facts about a load get typed into the system, then onto the bill of lading, then onto the invoice.
Volume freight moves on electronic data interchange rather than on modern interfaces. A tender goes out, a response comes back accepting or rejecting it, status messages flow during transit, and an invoice closes it. That much is standardised. Almost everything around it is not.
- EDI over a VAN
- McLeod PowerBroker
- Outlook
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if your tenders go out as email attachments to a handful of carriers you already phone about every load. The watch earns its place where the volume is past reading by eye, and where a VAN mailbox already sits between you and the carrier.
The constraint that shapes it
Driving time is federally limited, recorded electronically, and structured as a daily driving limit inside a longer on-duty window after a required rest period, with a weekly ceiling on top. More on how this sector works.
No alarm goes off when a thing simply stops arriving. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Noticing that an agent licence has quietly lapsed
- Watching an MLS feed for the day it goes quiet
- Catching a lapse date nobody put on a calendar
- Closing the registration window before it closes you
- Scheduling the visits a membership already promised
- Closing the permit that never got its final inspection
- Why did a load show as covered when nobody was hauling it?
- What is the difference between a 997 and a 990?
- How do I find load tenders with no carrier response?
- Does a functional acknowledgement mean the carrier accepted the load?
- What happens when a load tender is reissued under a change code?
Back to logistics and freight, or see how this is priced and scoped.