Do I need to own trailers to use Trailer Pool?

Trailer Pool is built around equipment you control, including owned trailers and units in your program. If you run power-only with your trailers under outside carriers, those assets stay on the same board so you can see who has them and on which load.

How does LoadStop know where a trailer is if nobody is driving it?

Status and location update from real operational events in the TMS, such as drops, yard transfers, shipper-loaded ready calls, and defect reports, so parked or pre-positioned trailers stay visible without a driver walking the lot.

What is the difference between empty at the yard and empty at a customer?

Empty at the yard means available equipment at your terminal. Empty or dropped at a customer can be pre-positioned for contract freight. Trailer Pool keeps those states separate so planners do not treat a staged trailer as idle capacity.

Can I plan a load onto a specific trailer before dispatch?

Yes. Pre-plan a load to an available trailer from the pool so it enters dispatch with equipment already tied, instead of assigning a truck first and hunting for a trailer later.

Is this the same as fleet management?

No. Fleet management focuses on trucks, drivers, and HOS. Trailer Pool tracks trailer status, dwell, yard spots, and power-only assignments so drop and contract freight equipment stays visible even when no truck is attached.

Trailer Pool

Know Where Every Trailer Is, Including the Ones Nobody Is Driving

Live status, location, and dwell time on every trailer you control, with pre-planning so the next load is tied to an available trailer before dispatch touches it.

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LoadStop trailer pool for drop-and-hook and contract freight

The Most Trusted Logistics Solution

Core Capabilities

One Board for Every Trailer in Your Control

Every trailer with a profile in LoadStop appears in the pool. Status, location, current load, and dwell time in one view, updated by real events rather than a driver's best guess.

Live Trailer Status

Seven statuses matching how drop freight moves, from empty at yard through loaded at yard, in transit, and dropped at customer. Status changes on a real trigger, not a reminder.

Find Equipment by City

Search a city, filter to empty and ready, and see what you can actually hook to before a driver leaves for a delivery that will sit on the dock.

Pre-Plan Loads to Trailers

Assign a load to an available trailer from the pool. It enters dispatch with the equipment already tied to it.

Dwell Time by Location

A dwell clock on every trailer at its current location, so you can reposition or bill instead of absorbing a slow dock.

Yard Spots & Transfers

Label yard positions to find a trailer without walking the lot. Loaded at the yard keeps split loads visible without reading as available.

Out of Service & Do Not Use

A reported defect takes the trailer out of the assignable pool immediately, so nobody plans a load onto equipment that is down.

Freight trailers staged at a loading bay for contract and drop freight operations

CONTRACT & DROP FREIGHT

Your Trailers Are Working Even When Your Trucks Are Not

Contract freight runs on equipment sitting where the freight will be. A trailer parked at a shipper is not idle, it is pre-positioned, and telling those apart is the difference between planning and guessing.

Search any market for available equipment before committing a driver to the hook
Separate empties you pre-positioned from empties nobody planned
Tie shipper-loaded trailers to their loads in seconds when the customer calls it ready
Track dwell at every yard, terminal, and customer location without a phone call

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Logistics terminal with rail and container equipment for power-only trailer programs

POWER-ONLY PROGRAMS

Run a Power-Only Program Without Losing Trailers to It

If you own trailers and let carriers arrive with a truck only, your equipment is your margin. Most brokerage platforms have no trailer pool at all, which is why these programs get run in a spreadsheet and reconciled after something goes missing.

Your own assets and your power-only carriers on the same board
Know which trailer is under which carrier, on which load, right now
Protect the margin your trailer earns, since a carrier using yours is paid less than one bringing their own
Asset and brokerage freight in one platform, not a tracker bolted onto a broker tool

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Success Stories

Proven Results From Real Operations

See how fleets and brokerages across the country are using LoadStop to operate more efficiently.

EMR Express

Asset-Based Carrier

Yard checks required to plan the day

"Manual yard checks replaced with a live trailer board"

EMR Express ran daily trailer counts by asking drivers to walk the lot. Status, location, and dwell now come off one board, and planners size the next day's work against equipment they can actually see.

ALCS Transport

Multi-Terminal Fleet

Terminals on one trailer board

"Idle trailers repositioned across terminals instead of adding equipment"

ALCS was fielding requests for more trailer capacity while empties sat at other terminals. Searching by city surfaced available units in the market that needed them, and the equipment request came off the budget.

Super Express

Hybrid Operations

Board for asset and power-only equipment

"Power-only trailer inventory tracked alongside asset freight"

Super Express lets outside carriers pull its trailers on brokered freight. Their own assets and their power-only carriers now show on the same board, so nobody reconstructs where a trailer went after the fact.

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Common Questions, Clear Answers

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See how LoadStop cuts the manual work out of your freight operations.

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