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The problem

Every answer lives behind someone else’s login.

Drayage runs on information your operation does not own. Every ETA, last free day, hold, cutoff and chassis release sits on a railroad, steamship-line or pool portal that was built for a human with a mouse. So a human with a mouse is what it takes.

One dispatch desk and the 18 portals it logs intoA single dispatch desk sits in the centre. Around it, in a ring, are the railroad, steamship-line, chassis-pool and telematics portals a drayage operation depends on, each reached by its own login. Several are flagged with the friction they hit most recently: a rotated password, an expired session, a CAPTCHA, a multi-factor prompt, stock that is not out yet.One dispatch desk18 logins · 1 person · every dayBNSFpassword rotatedUPsession expiredCSXNSCNCPMSCCAPTCHAMaerskCOSCOONEEvergreenHapag-LloydCMA CGMZIMTRACno stock yetDCLIGIERMFA codeMotive

One box, one booking, one chassis. Each answer lives on a different portal, with its own password, its own session timeout, its own CAPTCHA and its own idea of what a date looks like.

  • Class I railroads
  • Steamship lines
  • Chassis pools and registries
  • Telematics

The clocks

The clocks never stop. The checks do.

Free time, rail cutoffs, per-diem and chassis releases run on a 24-hour clock. A dispatcher's attention runs on a shift, with phone calls, drivers and customers in between. Everything that changes in the gap is discovered late, and late is what costs money.

A day on the Central clock: what changed, and when it was noticedA horizontal 24-hour axis. The dispatcher is at the desk from 06:00 to 18:00 and gets through the portals 4 times. Facts change on the portals at night and before the first round: free time starts at midnight, an ETA slides at two in the morning, a chassis pool releases stock before six, a customs hold clears in the evening. Each is noticed hours later, or the next morning.nobody is lookingnobody is lookingat the desk · 06:00 – 18:00 CT00:0003:0006:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0008:0011:3015:0017:30Free time starts ticking00:00 · the LFD clock does not waitETA slides nine hours02:10 · seen 5 h 50 m laterPool releases chassis05:30 · stock is gone by 08:00Customs hold released21:40 · seen tomorrow morning
  • A fact changed on a portal
  • A manual portal round
  • How long the change waited to be seen

The failure chain

One skipped check. Five expensive consequences.

Nothing about a missed portal round looks dangerous at the time. The cost shows up days later, on an invoice from a railroad, a chassis pool and a customer who will not say it out loud.

The failure chain: cost rising in five stepsA curve climbs from left to right through five numbered points: a check gets skipped, the eta goes stale, a driver rolls early, free time runs out, the bill arrives. The area under the curve, shaded from green to red, is what the skipped check ends up costing.cost →time since the skipped check →1A check gets skipped2The ETA goes stale3A driver rolls early4Free time runs out5The bill arrives
  1. 01

    A check gets skipped

    The 15:00 trace never happened. The dispatcher was on the phone with a driver stuck at a gate.

  2. 02

    The ETA goes stale

    The TMS still shows yesterday's number. Nobody knows the box moved, because nobody looked.

  3. 03

    A driver rolls early

    He arrives at the ramp for a container that is still on a train, and waits for a crane that is not coming.

  4. 04

    Free time runs out

    Another box sat untouched across the weekend. Its last free day passed on a Sunday, when nobody was in.

  5. 05

    The bill arrives

    Demurrage, per-diem, a driver's lost afternoon, and a customer asking why their shipment is late.

Six shapes

The same fact, in six shapes.

Every portal spells a date, a hold and a location its own way. Before a number can go into the TMS a person has to translate it, and a translation done a hundred times a day by hand is a translation that is sometimes wrong.

What six portals show

  • BNSF10/02/2026 06:40 CT
  • UP02OCT26 0640
  • CSXOct 2, 2026 6:40 AM
  • NS2026-10-02T06:40-05:00
  • CN02-Oct-2026 06:40 ET
  • CP10/02 06:40 MT

What your TMS needs

2026-10-02 06:40 Central

One shape, every carrier, every time. Today that translation is a person reading a screen and typing, 6 different ways, dozens of times a day.

Formats shown are illustrative.

Why it stays manual

It is not that nobody tried to automate it.

The portals were built to be used by people, and most of them are actively defended against anything else. Each of these on its own is a reason the work is still done by hand. Together they are why it has stayed that way.

Bot walls in front of the data

Turnstile, reCAPTCHA and picture puzzles guard the login page. A script that cannot solve them is a script that cannot log in, so the work stays with a person.

Credentials rot on their own schedule

Every portal expires passwords at its own pace, and a few failed attempts lock the account for the whole office. Someone finds out at 07:55 on a Monday.

Sessions expire mid-task

Forty containers into a trace, the portal asks you to sign in again. The spreadsheet is half-filled and the clock kept going.

There is no API to call

The source of truth for an ETA or a last free day is a web page built for a mouse. Your TMS has no way to ask it, so a person does.

Orders arrive as PDFs

Delivery orders come as attachments in a dozen layouts. Every container number, pickup location and cutoff is read by eye and re-keyed by hand.

Spreadsheets are the integration bus

Copy from the portal, paste into a sheet, email the sheet, paste into the TMS. Each hop is a typo waiting to happen and nobody owns the version.

Nobody can prove what the portal said

When a demurrage bill is disputed there is no capture of the screen the number came from. There is a memory, and a railroad's word against yours.

The knowledge lives in one head

Which portal hides holds under which tab, which pool releases stock at six, which line's cutoff means the day before. A new dispatcher takes months to learn it and leaves with it.

Where Neo comes in

This is the problem Neo was built for.

Neo takes the logins, the CAPTCHAs, the session timeouts, the re-keying and the round-the-clock watching off the desk, and leaves the dispatcher with one screen that says what needs a human right now.

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