Real time by default
An event bus sits under every module, so a change in the shop, on the road or in accounting reaches every connected screen the moment it lands. No snapshot, no manual refresh, no stale board.
Dispatch, tracked and invoiced in one system.
Vektra is a transportation management system for asset-based carriers across North America, from a dozen trucks to a few hundred. Load to settlement on one screen, every change pushed the moment it happens, priced per truck.
Unlimited users · Month to month · Guided migration
Maintenance cycle
Predictive · brake wear · Unit 118
Scheduled
Asset
Unit 118 · 2021 Cascadia
Available
Load
T-4417 · Regina → Winnipeg
Assigned
Ready. Place a maintenance hold to see the bridge fire.
The screen your dispatcher lives on
Where every truck is, before anyone asks
Positions come straight from Motive, Samsara, Geotab or Isaac. A fix older than two hours is drawn differently and counted separately — a stale position drawn like a live one is a map that lies about where your fleet is.
One board, every status
The load board, doing a Tuesday
Booked through to ready-to-invoice on one screen, with the lane, the driver, the unit and the margin on every row. Status changes inline — no drawer, no second page, no save button to hunt for.
Revenue and margin sit on the board itself, because a dispatcher moving a load is the person best placed to notice when one is not worth moving.
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01 · The difference
Your shop and your dispatch board finally talk to each other
In most transportation software, maintenance is a filing cabinet. A mechanic writes up a unit, the record sits there, and dispatch assigns a load to that truck the same afternoon because nothing stopped them.
Vektra treats it as one system. Placing a maintenance hold flips the asset out of service immediately, flags every load already booked on it, and refuses the next dispatch attempt outright. If someone genuinely needs to override, they can — and the override is written to the audit log with their name on it.
- Holds propagate to every open screen in real time, no refresh
- Loads booked on a downed asset are surfaced, not silently broken
- Overrides are explicit and audited, never accidental
02 · Built differently
Four decisions the incumbents can't retrofit
API-first, not API-later
Every screen in Vektra is built on the same documented, versioned API a partner integrator would use. Nothing is reachable through the UI that you can't reach programmatically.
Modular core
A tight core — loads, carriers, assets, settlement — with add-on modules like Equipment Maintenance and USPS contract management on top. You run what your operation needs.
Priced per truck
Your bill tracks the trucks you run, not the seats you fill. Dispatch, accounting, drivers, the owner and your bookkeeper all get a login at no extra cost.
03 · Your operation
Freight types with rules generic software calls edge cases
Every operation below has a compliance or documentation demand that most TMS platforms treat as a custom field. In Vektra they're part of the data model.
General Freight
FTL, LTL and mixed operations. One board, one record from booking to settlement, no rekeying between dispatch and accounting.
Livestock Hauling
Tight timelines, welfare documentation and hours-of-service edge cases that a generic load record cannot represent honestly.
Reefer & Cold Chain
Temperature capture attached to the load, precool verification, and exceptions flagged before they turn into a rejected claim.
Specialized Carriers
Oversize permits, project-based invoicing and equipment records that don't collapse into a single "trailer" field.
USPS & HCR Contractors
Contract routes modelled properly: trips, parts, frequency codes and holiday-offset rules, with expiry that blocks generation at the source.
Not listed? →
Tell us what you haul and where the paperwork hurts. If Vektra can't represent it properly today, we'll say so rather than sell you a workaround.
04 · How it works
One record, booking to settlement
01
Book the load
Enter it once, take it in over EDI, or post it through the API. Customer, lane, rate, equipment and accessorials live on one record from that moment forward.
02
Run it
Dispatch to a truck that's actually available, the driver gets the load on their phone, the customer watches it move on a link, and the signed POD comes back attached.
03
Get paid
Invoice with the paperwork already attached, settle the driver against the same load, and post it to your accounting without anyone retyping a number.
05 · API-first
If it's in Vektra, you can reach it
The API isn't a bolt-on for enterprise customers. It's the contract the product itself is built against, documented from the same source, so what you integrate with is what we run.
- Documented, versioned REST API with an interactive spec
- Webhooks and a live WebSocket feed for load and asset events
- EDI 204, 990, 214 and 210 over SFTP, AS2 or your VAN — no per-transaction fee
- Two-way telematics: Motive, Samsara, Geotab and Isaac
- Your data stays exportable — no hostage-taking on the way out
Assign a load
POST /loads/4417/assign // dispatching onto an asset under a maintenance hold 400 Bad Request { "error": "ASSET_UNDER_MAINTENANCE_HOLD", "assetId": "unit-118", "holdId": "mc_9f21", "override": "pass overrideHold:true — audited" }
06 · Why Vektra exists
"Most transportation software is built for brokerages with a hundred seats and sold to carriers as an afterthought. Vektra started at the dispatch desk instead."
Alister — CEO & Principal Engineer
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07 · Straight answers
Questions carriers actually ask
Is Vektra live yet?
Vektra is in active development and we are onboarding a small group of founding carriers now. We would rather tell you that plainly than pretend to be a decade old. If you need a fully mature platform this quarter, we will say so on the call. If you want influence over how a TMS gets built for your operation, this is the moment to talk.
What does it cost?
Per truck, per month, month to month, with unlimited user seats at every tier. Published ranges are on the pricing page and we will give you a real number for your fleet size on the demo call rather than making you chase a quote.
How do you compare to the established TMS platforms?
The incumbents are mature platforms with years of production history, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Where Vektra is different is architectural: real-time event propagation instead of a board you refresh, a maintenance layer that can actually stop a dispatch, and an API that covers the whole product rather than a subset. Whether that matters more than maturity depends on your operation, and we will give you an honest read on the call.
What happens to the data in my current system?
Migration is guided and included. We move your customers, lanes, equipment, driver records and open loads, and we agree on what historical data comes across before you sign anything. Your data stays exportable the entire time you are with us.
Do I have to replace my ELD, accounting or factoring provider?
No. Vektra is designed to sit alongside the tools you already run. Tell us your stack on the demo call and we will confirm exactly what connects today, what is on the roadmap, and what would need a custom integration — before you commit, not after.
See it run against your own operation
Thirty minutes. Bring your worst week — the re-power, the truck that went down mid-lane, the settlement nobody can reconcile — and we'll show you where it goes.