Reduce empty running by finding and confirming the next suitable load.
Atlato identifies upcoming gaps, searches approved freight sources, checks operational fit and keeps following up until a suitable next load is confirmed.
For truckload fleets, regional carriers and dispatch teams managing backhauls and repositioning
A truck finishes its delivery without a confirmed next load.
The vehicle then travels empty while driver time, fuel, maintenance and other operating costs continue. Dispatch staff must search internal freight, partner capacity, load boards, emails and messages, then confirm that the load fits the equipment, route, timing and available driver hours.
Every empty mile carries cost without carrying freight.
When the next load is found late, the fleet loses time to manual searching and may accept avoidable deadhead, poor timing or a weak commercial fit simply to keep the truck moving.
How Atlato runs it.
Atlato acts as a 24/7 digital operations assistant. It identifies upcoming gaps, searches approved freight sources, checks operational fit, contacts providers or shippers and keeps following up until a suitable next load is confirmed or the issue is escalated.
Connects to your existing systems
Connects the TMS, telematics, fleet and driver data, internal freight, approved partner systems, load boards, rate rules, email and messaging channels.
Monitors and takes action 24/7
Watches planned delivery completion and next-load confirmation. When a gap appears, it searches approved sources, matches loads by location, equipment, timing, route and driver hours, contacts the relevant party and updates the TMS when the load is confirmed.
Follows your policies and compliance requirements
Applies approved lanes, providers, cargo types, rate limits, equipment requirements, insurance rules, driver-hour limits and commercial boundaries before progressing an option.
Brings people in when approval is needed
Escalates rate exceptions, new providers, route deviations, sensitive cargo and commitments outside approved commercial or operational limits.
Gives every person a personal digital assistant
Gives dispatch ranked options and contact status, the driver the confirmed job details, commercial teams the rate and margin context and managers only the exceptions that need a decision.
Maintains a complete, audit-ready history
Records every source searched, option considered, contact attempt, rate, approval, rejection, confirmation, TMS update and final empty-leg outcome.
What changes.
Empty legs identified early
Upcoming gaps are found before the current delivery ends.
Suitable loads checked
Each option is tested against operational and commercial rules.
Follow-up runs 24/7
Approved providers and shippers are contacted until there is an outcome.
Decisions stay traceable
Searches, rates, approvals and confirmations remain recorded.
Why the outcome is different.
The search for the next load starts before the truck is empty.
- Earlier visibility of trucks at risk of running empty.
- Faster search and confirmation across approved freight sources.
- Dispatchers keep control of price, provider and route exceptions.
Outcomes to measure.
- Empty legs identified before delivery completion
- Time from gap detection to next-load confirmation
- Deadhead mileage percentage
- Load acceptance, rate and margin against policy
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See this flow running on your operation.
Bring us your systems, your rules and your exceptions. We will show you how Atlato carries this flow from the first signal to the recorded outcome.