TruckMate Version Comparison

This document provides a summary of the many enhancements and key innovations introduced across TruckMate during the last three calendar years. Our commitment is to continuously improve your experience, drive operation efficiency, and provide you with the most advanced tools available.

By reviewing this version comparison, you will be able to:

  • Discover Powerful New Features: See how new features like TMS Connector and the AI-powered SQL Query Analysis Agent can optimize your operations.

  • Enhance Security and Stability: Understand the core platform upgrades, including improvements to Mileage Server’s performance and the adoption of OAuth2 authentication, ensuring your system is modern, secure, and reliable.

  • Improve Workflow Efficiency: Identify streamlined processes, from new API endpoints to standardized service setup windows, all designed to make your daily work faster and more effective.

  • Plan Your Upgrade Path: Use this guide to assess the value of each new version, allowing you to strategically plan your next upgrade to maximize the benefits for your fleet and back office.

Each version number below is a link to the What’s new page for that version. For a complete list of the enhancements and resolutions in each release, select the Release notes link on that version’s What’s new page.

Major Enhancements by Version: 2023 - 2025

Version Enhanced Areas and Key Innovations

V.2023.1

Back Office:

  • Implemented stop-based driver pay rules for more precise financial modeling.

  • Removed AR Transaction Types and moved its functionality to Codes Maintenance.

Operations:

  • Redesigned the TruckMate Menu and Task List.

  • Removed Bulk Codes Maintenance and moved its functionality to Codes Maintenance.

  • Improved trip repositioning logic.

Web/APIs:

  • Replaced the TMW4Web REST and SOAP APIs with the TruckMate REST API.

  • Added a control option to limit the records returned to only those sent in the request.

  • Added the ability to retrieve client contact records.

V.2023.2

Back Office:

  • Added an option to define the path used by TruckMate applications to find reports.

  • Improved driver scheduling.

  • Enabled driver pay calculations using the Pickup At and Care of Delivery contacts on a freight bill.

  • Added the FB IP Control field to the Carrier Information window.

Operations:

  • Improved the CUSTOM_GET_DISP_TRIP_QUERY stored procedure.

  • Added trap tracking functionality.

  • Redesigned the Find Near window.

Web/APIs:

  • Optimized creating orders so that validation functions are not invoked when the resource fields are not provided.

  • Updated the Trips endpoint to let you send and return the FB IP Control field value.

V.2023.3

Back Office:

  • Improved the stored procedure that handles status changes for intercompany trips.

  • Added a Contacts subtab to the I/P tab in Customer Service.

  • Added features to enable driver pay by stops.

  • Added an option to import data from a file into most TruckMate grids.

Operations:

  • Modified the Fixed SQL field for the trip grids in Multi Mode Dispatch to show all the SQL used.

  • Added the Threaded Log Viewer application.

  • Added the Zone Tree Import option.

Web/APIs:

  • Added the TMS Connector web portal.

  • Added the excludePositions query parameter to the Orders API.

  • Improved the SQL efficiency used to update Trip Notes Summary.

V.2023.4

Back Office:

  • Added CPP2 and QPP2 codes to Payroll Configuration.

  • Added support for employee dental benefits.

  • Added automatic appointment requirements based on service level.

Operations:

  • Added a procedure to delete unnecessary data from the MADD_DEBUG table.

  • Added Quick Filters.

  • Added Spot functionality to the Adjust Pickup/Delivery window.

Web/APIs:

  • Added support for web user authorization for POST /orders for type P and Q records.

  • Added count field to the response body for trips and all trips child resource endpoints when the GET method is used.

  • Replaced the ContentTools API with Trimble Places.

V.2024.1

Back Office:

  • Integrated email and fax details directly into address book lookup lists.

  • Added the Highest Actual or Cube Weight option to Driver Pay Contracts.

  • Added Auto-Refresh and Suppress Results functions to enhance billing validation.

Operations:

  • Improved how LTL mileage is calculated on pickup and delivery trips.

  • Added sort order options for custom-defined fields.

  • Added options to customize the SQL Execute editor pane.

  • Added ability to add missed attempted stops to freight bills in Trip Envelope Processing.

Web/APIs:

  • Added support for case-insensitive filtering in REST APIs using the $filter tolower operator.

  • Added rating method to Master Data API.

V.2024.2

Back Office:

  • Added security settings for deleting checks.

  • Improved rating functionality.

  • Added ability to set the type of movement that an accessorial charge applies to.

Operations:

  • Improved the single sign-on process to fully support Kerberos.

  • Improved Mileage Server’s stability and performance.

  • Improved freight bill matching to trips based on terminal plan.

  • Added support for Android version 12 and higher for ConnectedDock.

  • Added screen design to ConnectedDock.

Web/APIs:

  • Introduced a Finance API for the digital exchange of Payroll, AP, AR, and GL data.

  • Integrated Expert Fuel with the MobileComm API.

  • Added "GetLoadOffersMinimal" API function to the MobileComm API.

V.2024.3

Back Office:

  • Updated tariff rating currency conversion to be consistent with client rating currency conversion.

  • Added ability to convert pallets to volume.

  • Added monthly schedule option to The Dawg.

Operations:

  • Added support for multiple scheduler DAWG service instances to handle larger workloads.

  • Added field type options and multi-company support to user fields.

  • Improved the trip status change selection workflow.

  • Improved handling of incomplete pickups on trips.

Web/APIs:

  • Added support for TruckStop.com’s RESTful API.

  • Implemented a new REST API endpoint to retrieve user-defined field data for carriers and interliners.

V.2024.4

Back Office:

  • Added staging tables for rate imports.

  • Added ability to exclude carriers based on the bill-to party of a freight bill.

  • Added option to require audits when editing a pickup or delivery date.

Operations:

  • Improved performance Multi Mode Dispatch performance.

  • Redesigned the Security tab in Security Configuration.

  • Added option for Azure-hosted PC*Miler WebService and added "Current" dataset.

  • Added support for mandatory checklist items.

  • Added option to restrict credit hold bills from being assigned to trips.

  • Added ability to group Quick Filters together.

  • Added support for haptics to ConnectedDock

Web/APIs:

  • Web Server installation upgraded to PHP 8.3 and Apache 2.4.62 for improved security.

  • Updated the Trips API to use centralized validations when adding accessorials to a carrier trip.

  • Moved some of the SOAP Mobile Communications service’s logging entries from standard mode to debug mode.

V.2025.1

Back Office:

  • Added Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support.

  • Added customer-specific shipping instructions.

  • Added ability to send orders to Tender Evaluation.

Operations:

  • Merged reload options into a single option.

  • Added support for item user fields.

  • Added bursting to Dawg email grouping options.

  • Migrated many user fields from Application Configurator to Codes Maintenance.

Web/APIs:

  • Expanded Master Data API endpoints for configuring customer-specific instructions externally.

  • Added support to retrieve, create, update, and delete currency rate records for driver pay and general ledger in the Finance REST API.

  • Added a new query parameter, codesByTripNumber, to the GET /statusCodes endpoint in the masterData REST API.

V.2025.2

Back Office:

  • Optimized driver pay features.

  • Added DB2 commit frequency configuration options.

  • Added admin status options to checklist items.

Operations:

  • Standardized service setup windows across all applications.

  • Added the ability to create planned pickup and delivery trips.

  • Added option to require that checklist items be completed before a freight bill can be assigned to a trip.

  • Added freight bill summaries to ConnectedDock.

Web/APIs:

  • Added support for the Truckstop.com REST API load board vendor.

  • Replaced the Profile Import REST API service with the Master Data REST API service.

  • Updated PUT endpoints for orders to use centralized logic when modifying orders that have been billed or interfaced to billing.

V.2025.3

Back Office:

  • Added the AI-powered SQL Query Analysis Agent to WatchDawg.

  • Updated how driver pay is recalculated after credit/rebill actions.

  • Added SQL routine tracing.

  • Added automatic cross-reference ID creation to Customer Service.

Operations:

  • Added a default export file type selection for reports to eliminate manual PDF conversion steps.

  • Added OAuth 2.0 authentication support.

  • Added ability to specify attachment names in The Dawg.

  • Improved the core functional state of Mileage Server.

Web/APIs:

  • Updated the Orders API for Manual Rate Conversion Factors.

  • Added support for Trimble Transportation Cloud (TTC) client credential tokens to authenticate with TruckMate REST API services (ART).

  • Added support to retrieve GL accounts using the Finance REST API.

V.2025.4

Back Office:

  • Added support for Minnesota Paid Family Leave.

  • Updated the Skid Dimensions form.

  • Added option to have barcode items roll up at the freight bill level.

Operations:

  • Added the AI-powered SQL Query Analysis Agent to SQL Execute.

  • Added option to copy existing Dawgs.

  • Standardized TruckMate logging folders.

Web/APIs:

  • Added endpoints to the Mobile Comm REST APIs

  • Added endpoints to the Financial API.