Multi-leg load planning for LTL & consolidation carriers
Upload tonight's manifest. Relay plans every pallet across every trailer and every hub — legal on every axle — and you approve it from your phone. The dock loads from the sheet in the morning.
No hardware. No integration. Runs beside the TMS you already have.
The problem
When freight changes trucks across hubs, every pallet is a decision across all of tonight's trailers — and that decision lives in one or two heads. You wait for the last inbound truck, work it out by hand, redo it when it doesn't fit, write the sheets, and nobody else can be trusted to do it. Packing is a third of it. The rest is waiting, trade-offs, rework and not being able to delegate.
What Relay does
Built for break-bulk and consolidation carriers running 20–100 trucks through two to six hubs. Here's the full set.
Training is built in: guided tours per role, contextual help, and downloadable guides generated from your own configuration — your hubs, your lanes.
How it works
One CSV or Excel export from the TMS you already run. Relay learns your column layout once.
Every trailer, every leg, legal on every axle — before the last inbound truck arrives. Walk it in 3D, drag, flag, approve from your phone.
Labels and a dock sheet per trailer print from the plan. Your crew stages to the slot and loads in order. Expected freight is already planned in.
Bring last week's manifests — the loads you built by hand. We run them live and put your plan and Relay's side by side, with utilization and axle weights on each. Then shadow-run for 60–90 days at no cost.
Pricing
Relay is additive to your TMS, not a replacement. Dedicated scanners and label printers are optional upgrades; a phone camera and an office printer are enough to start.
Part of the BOIA family
Relay runs on its own for any carrier. When a carrier also uses BOIA Freight, Relay tells the load board something no TMS can: exactly how much space is left on every trailer, per leg, with the fit already proven.
Plans tonight's trailers. Publishes residual capacity — open positions, cube, payload and axle headroom per leg — the moment a plan is approved.
Sees the open space on a lane, asks Relay "does this pallet fit?", and sells the space with confidence. Pallet status flows back for tracking.
Not "half full" — three positions, 212 ft³, 4,200 lb, two stops.
A hypothetical pallet returns fits / doesn't, with the new axle numbers.
Webhooks and API keys per integration. BOIA Freight is the first subscriber, not the only one.
Questions
No. A phone camera reads QR codes and labels print on Avery sheets from any office printer. Dedicated scanners and a Zebra printer are an upgrade when volume justifies it.
No. Relay plans and validates loads; your TMS keeps dispatch, billing and tracking. Relay reads one export from it and never writes back unless you connect it.
Expected pallets are planned into reserved slots from the manifest. When one lands and measures differently, only its slot re-solves. Labels print before arrival; receiving tells the crew exactly which lane and position.
Drag it. Every drop is validated live. Lock pallets in place and re-solve; the solver works around them. Your never-together rules and always-low rules are configured once so the plan looks like yours.
No, deliberately. Relay tracks pallets, references trailers and names drivers. Telematics and your TMS connect as integrations, never as modules.
On AWS, isolated per customer with row-level security. Scan events and photos are append-only and retained for a minimum of three years, exportable on request.