Forward a trip to a partner

When a carrier drives part of your work, you plan it as a Forwarded trip. Instead of your own vehicle, you choose the carrier's capacity contract. Transportial creates a booking for the carrier, sends it when you confirm, and tracks the carrier's cost on the trip.

Before you start

• Set up a capacity contract with the carrier, including how bookings are sent to them. See Capacity contracts.
• The contract's communication method decides how the carrier receives the booking: Integration, Message Automation, PDF Download or, for a carrier on its own Transportial platform, Transportial network. See Work with carriers on the Transportial network.

Create a forwarded trip

1. Open the side menu (☰) and choose New trip.
2. Click the Forwarded tab.
3. Enter a Name and the Start date & time.
4. Choose the carrier's contract in Select capacity contract.
5. With the carrierCompliance feature, read the notice below the contract if the carrier is not available, and compare earlier prices in Cheapest carriers on this lane. See Check carrier compliance and lane costs.
6. With the neutralCmr feature, choose under Neutral CMR whether the carrier's CMR and order show the real sender and consignee. See Trip documents, CMRs and PDFs.
7. To agree a one-off price, switch Spot Quote on and enter the quote lines (quantity, price and VAT rate).
8. Fill in the transport details asked for the contract's modality, such as the Booking number for road or the bill of lading number for sea.
9. Select the consignments the carrier transports.
10. Click Save. Calculating the route is optional for forwarded trips.

The trip gets the type Forwarded and a booking. A placeholder vehicle for the carrier is put on the trip, so it appears on your boards. The Booking tab shows the booking type, number, business, references, modality, the route and the costs.

Send the booking

1. Open the forwarded trip.
2. Click Confirm. The booking is sent to the carrier by the contract's communication method.
3. For PDF Download, click the Download PDF icon in the header.
4. Choose the language in Select a language. It defaults to the carrier's preferred language.
5. Click Download standard PDF, or the template button if the contract has its own document template.
6. Send the PDF to the carrier.

If you cancel the trip later, the carrier booking is cancelled and sent again with that status.

Let the carrier report progress

• Click Share execution view and send the link to the carrier's driver, so they can register stops and upload documents. See Send a trip to the driver.
• Or click Share to give the carrier a read-only view.
• Or give the carrier an account in the carrier portal, where it sees all trips you forward to it and reports ETAs, driver and vehicle and documents. See Set up the carrier portal.