Time on the trailer
Loading time, transit time and unload time aren't just schedule inputs — they're welfare constraints. They belong on the load where dispatch can see them before committing, not in a note discovered afterward.
Livestock hauling
Live freight doesn't wait for your paperwork
Livestock runs on tight windows and zero margin for a breakdown. The load record has to hold what actually matters — the welfare documentation, the timing constraints, the equipment condition — instead of pushing it into a driver's notebook.
01 · What's different
Constraints a dry van record can't hold
Hours-of-service edge cases
Livestock hauling carries HOS considerations that don't apply to general freight, and they interact badly with a board that can't see them. Vektra keeps the timing data on the record so planning happens with it, not around it.
Welfare documentation
Health papers, inspection records and the documentation a receiving yard expects, attached to the load they belong to and available before the truck gets there.
02 · Equipment
A breakdown with live freight aboard is a different kind of problem
This is where Vektra's maintenance bridge earns its keep. A unit that shouldn't be on the road can't be dispatched onto a livestock load, because the block happens at assignment rather than in a report someone reads later.
- Maintenance holds take a unit out of the dispatch pool immediately
- Loads already booked on a downed unit are flagged, not silently broken
- Service intervals tracked against the equipment record with reminders before the date, not after
- Overrides possible, explicit, and written to the audit log
Straight talk
Livestock-specific welfare rules vary by jurisdiction, species and receiving facility, and we're not going to pretend we've encoded every one of them. What Vektra gives you is a data model that can hold your actual constraints rather than flattening them, and a founder who'll sit down and map your specific requirements on the call.
If we can't represent something you're legally required to document, you'll hear that before you sign.
Map your documentation requirements with us
Bring what your receiving yards demand and we'll show you where each field lives.