TruckMate 2023.2 New Features: Back Office

A new REPORTS Application Configurator option, Custom Register Report Path, lets you define the path in which some TruckMate applications can find reports.

When this option is blank (default), TruckMate looks for reports in the path defined in the REPORTS Default Report Path option.

Enter a value in this option to create a custom path that is included in the default path. For example, if the Default Report Path value is Reports, entering Register in the Custom Register Report Path option puts register reports in the Reports/Register folder.

This feature works with these TruckMate applications:

Several changes have been made that will help you create and track driver schedules.

For driver pay calculations that are based on the freight bill, TruckMate now uses the Pickup At and Care of Delivery contacts defined in the freight bill.

In this example, the freight bill Z0004516 has these contacts specified.

This information appears in Trip Envelope Processing.

Canadian payroll deduction guidelines effective July 1, 2023 are now available on the Learning Center.

Barcode tracking can now be initiated from the TMEDILink 204 inbound map (TMEDILink204IC.dll). The barcode is auto-generated by TruckMate, and tied in with the Details record. You can print barcode stickers for tracking purposes.

To determine the number of barcode items needed, the EDILink 204 Inbound map now contains a Barcode Items field. If the value of this field is set to anything above 0, it will generate that number of barcode(s) when the order is posted (non-NA bill). Barcodes are tied in with the associated details (TLDTL table).

On the Barcode Item Details window in Customer Service and Order Preprocessor, double-clicking the Items column lets you view the barcode items.

Previously, when consolidating freight bills that used multi-point or multi-break rate sheets onto a master bill, an error occurred when re-rating the master bill.

Now, you can consolidate freight bills that use any rate sheet type.

When creating a profile for a container manually, TruckMate typically concatenates the Container ID and Digit/Check Number field values to create the container number.

Previously, this concatenation did not work when importing container information into TruckMate from TMT.

This issue has now been resolved.

A new DISPATCH.EXE Application Configurator option, Validate Insurance, controls the date used to validate a carrier’s cargo, liability, and workers' compensation insurance. This option works with these existing DISPATCH.EXE options that check for valid insurance:

If any of these options is set to Warning or Error, TruckMate checks the Validate Insurance option value to determine which validation date to use.

This logic is performed when:

In each case, if the insurance is not up to date, an error message appears.

If a commodity’s UN number defines that commodity as dangerous goods, TruckMate selects the appropriate Dangerous Goods checkboxes automatically when the commodity is added to a freight bill in Customer Service.

Previously, this automatic flagging of dangerous goods was not happening in the EDI workflow. This issue has been resolved.

Now, on the TMEDILINK 204 inbound map (TMEDILink204IC.dll), the freight bill cancellation process also cancels any extra stops if the 204 file:

If a parent freight bill is already cancelled, extra stop child bills are not cancelled.

The Imaging REST API now returns a missingRequiredField error code when the request body does not include fields that are marked as required in the API call.

The PAYCON.EXE Application Configurator option FB Pay Leg Date now has an ACTUAL_PICKUP option. When selected, drivers can be paid on the actual date that the work was done.

For example, suppose a freight bill has a pickup date of May 1 and a delivery date of May 10. If the work was completed on April 27, selecting ACTUAL_PICKUP saves that date in the driver’s pay record. It is visible in the Drv Pay tab in Customer Service and the Payments tab in Driver Pay Audit.

The Group tab now contains separate subtabs for features and users. The new Users subtab lists all users in a selected group.

In this subtab, you can select multiple users and delete them by clicking Delete, pressing CTRL+DEL, or right-clicking the grid and selecting Delete from the shortcut menu.

Prior to the delete process, TruckMate displays a warning message. Once the process completes, the grid refreshes.

If TruckMate was unable to delete one or more users, an error message displays and the user records reappear in the grid. Typically, this happens because the user is logged in.

A filter has been added to the Create Date Range fields. You can now filter freight bills based on their creation dates within a range you specify.

Two TRACE.EXE Application Configurator options have been added:

These options determine the default date range for the Create Date Range and Invoice Date Range fields. Both default to 1.

For example, suppose you set Initial Create Date Range Days to 5 and leave Initial Invoice Date Range Days at 1. The first time the user opens Trip Tracer for the day, the values in the fields reflect the date range you specify.

These Security Configuration options have been added to the Security > Business Events > Miscellaneous > Trip Tracer tab:

For each, you can determine: