Automate and optimize truck loading
Every shipper has a TMS that knows what ships today and a WMS that knows how big and heavy each pallet is. Many still build loads by hand or with load diagrams that only check fit, not axle weights or stop order. Let's decide which trailer each unit goes on, where it sits, and in what order it's loaded, as one problem.
One solve plans every trailer, every unit, and every axle load
Timefold solves trailer assignment, load sequence, and 3D placement as one optimization problem. Fit, support, stacking, allowed orientations, gross weight, axle group limits, the Federal Bridge Formula, center of gravity height, and stop-order access are enforced as hard constraints, so every load is legal and buildable before it reaches the dock. Within those rules, the model uses the fewest trailers, then keeps axles below a safety margin, the load balanced side to side, and shipments together.
Where Timefold goes beyond fit-only load diagrams
Four places where fit-only load diagrams fall short. Timefold bakes each one into the model.
Axle weights are part of the plan
The model calculates steer, drive, and trailer axle loads from where each unit sits, and keeps each group legal.
Built the way loaders build
Units are placed row by row from the nose, in the same sequence the dock loads them, so the plan is always buildable.
The first stop's freight comes off first
On multi-drop loads, nothing for a later stop blocks freight for an earlier one.
More freight per trailer
The model packs freight into the fewest trailers, so less empty cube goes on the road.
Empty trailer space costs freight spend and driver hours
Trailers leave the dock part empty, drivers are scarce, and overweight axles draw fines at roadside inspections. Load plans that only check fit leave all three on the table.
Of truckloads run with empty trailer space
And shippers report the share is growing, not shrinking.
Of a truck's operating cost is the driver
Every trailer a better plan saves also frees a driver for another load.
In fines for one badly overweight axle
Fines climb the further an axle is over its limit, before counting the time the truck is held.
Handling time for freight loaded out of stop order
Off the trailer and back on, at every stop where it blocks the door.
Constraints the model expresses today
When scheduling works, everything works.
Less waste. More control. Teams that trust the plan.