Annex Orbis

Tracking & updates · for brokers

One link per person. Private by design.

Send the shipper, the receiver and the dock office each their own link to a load. It opens behind a six-digit code, shows the stop’s status, ETA and timeline, and shows the truck only on the drive into their stop — never at the customer before them.

Tracking linksIn testingOwn-truck ETAsIn testingUpdate noticesComing
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Shown: load L-4127 on Larkspan’s own truck. Today the position and ETA on a link come from your own drivers’ apps; a carrier’s truck on the link is Coming.

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Where it works

Made in the office. Opened on any phone.

You make and manage links in the web app. The people you send them to need no account and no app: their page opens in any browser, phones included.

Web, apps and the recipient’s phone

  • WebIn testingOn a computer or a tablet’s browser: create, copy and revoke links on the load’s Notifications sent tab, see who opened them, approve access requests.
  • TabletIn testingYour own drivers’ tablet and phone apps send the position, the stop events and the driver’s estimate a link shows. Debug builds on company devices.
  • MobileIn testingShippers and receivers open their link in a phone’s browser after the six-digit code. Your workspace itself opens on a computer or tablet, not a phone’s browser.

Send the link

A link for each person, not one link for everyone.

On the load’s Notifications sent tab, pick the stop, enter the person’s email and choose what they can follow and for how long. They get an emailed invitation. You get a list of everyone holding a link, how often each one opened it, and a Revoke button beside every name.

In testing

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  • In testingOne stop or the whole loadA this-stop link names only that stop; the others show their kind and city. A whole-load link names every stop.
  • In testingA code before anything showsThe page opens only after a six-digit code sent to the address you entered. A code expires in 30 minutes.
  • In testing1 or 7 days, revoked any timeEach person’s link ends on its own date. Revoking one leaves everyone else’s working.
  • In testingWho looked, and how often“Opened 3 times”, counted once per visit, beside a masked address that never republishes the contact.
  • In testingOne link for a whole dockA postable link takes up to 100 uses for 1, 3 or 7 days. Each opener gives their own name and email and gets their own link.
  • In testingHAL drafts, a person sendsAsk HAL by text to prepare a tracking link or answer an access request. It waits for a person to approve.

Private by design

The truck shows on the drive into their stop. Nowhere else.

Your customers never need to know who else is on the load, or where the truck just was. So the exact position appears only while the truck heads to the recipient’s stop, from a fresh fix, once it is 500 m past the previous stop’s private fence.

In testing

Whose link

Thursday, 5:12 AM. Switch links to see what each person sees.

Bluebonnet sees the truck only on the drive into Austin, and only since it passed 500 m beyond the Dallas customer’s fence. The earlier stops read “Pickup · Springfield, OH” and “Delivery · Dallas, TX”.

  • Exact position shown now
  • Was shown while heading to their stop
  • Withheld: fence + 500 m
  • Not on this link

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  • Heading to their stopTheir stop is the truck’s current destination, and the truck is on the way.
  • A fix under 2 minutes oldAn old position is withheld, never guessed.
  • 500 m past the previous fenceYour setting, never below 500 m, so the last customer’s site can’t be read off the map.
  • The same rule for historyPosition history on a link covers only the drive into that stop.

Your own trucks

Cover it with your own truck, and the link moves by itself.

When one of your trucks runs the load, your driver’s app sends the position, the stop events and the driver’s own estimate straight to every link on it. The ETA plans the driver’s hours, and dispatch gets a card when a truck leaves its route.

In testing

  • Live position from your driver’s phone or tablet app
  • Arrived and left times on every stop, as the driver records them
  • An ETA that lays in the breaks and rests the driver’s hours require
  • The driver’s estimate beside the automatic one, with the gap in minutes
  • Off-route cards for dispatch, and a new route approved from the truck’s position

Brokerage and fleet on one platformHow dispatch works

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Updates

Updates that reach them before they call.

Each recipient picks the updates they want — on the way, arrived, done, running late — by email or by text, and stops them in one click. The same link goes out by text as well as email, and carries the stop’s documents and the route’s updates.

Coming

  • Update notices by email: on the way, arrived, done, running lateComing
  • Links and six-digit codes by textComing
  • The stop’s documents on the link: bill of lading, proof of deliveryComing
  • Route updates on the linkComing
  • Today: the page refreshes itself every 30 seconds while it is openIn testing

Until then, every link goes out by email — or copy it and send it your own way.

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Brokered loads

Next: the carrier’s truck on the same link.

Today the position and ETA on a link come from your own drivers’ apps. On a load an outside carrier hauls, the link carries the stops and appointments; the truck joins it from whichever source the carrier has — first its own ELD, when it runs ANNEX ORBIS.

When the carrier runs ANNEX ORBIS tooIts ELD already knows where the truck is and how many hours the driver has left. Shared for your load only, that becomes the position and the hours-aware ETA on your shipper’s link — with no extra app for the driver.Coming

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  • The carrier’s ELD position and hours-aware ETA, shared for one load, when it runs ANNEX ORBISComing
  • A “Track a driver” link: the carrier’s driver accepts for that one load; tracking stops at delivery, at your cancel, or 24 hours after the scheduled deliveryComing
  • Position feeds from an outside carrier’s telematics providerComing
  • Request ETA: ask the driver for a fresh estimate from the loadComing
  • Office status updates and a check-call log, so the link moves on every loadComing
  • The Freight Beacon riding inside the freight, on the load and its linkComing

The Freight BeaconThe ANNEX ORBIS ELD

Status, plainly

Tracking, line by line.

Available is live in production. In testing is built and running, not yet proven with real customers. Coming is planned or partly built.

Links you send

  • Tracking link for one stop or the whole loadIn testing
  • Many people per stop, each with their own linkIn testing
  • Emailed invitation and six-digit code; links last 1 or 7 daysIn testing
  • Masked contacts and “Opened n times” for each personIn testing
  • Postable links (up to 100 uses) and access requestsIn testing
  • HAL drafts a link for a person to approveIn testing
  • Links and codes by textComing

What they see

  • Status steps, the driver’s and the automatic ETA, a Late flagIn testing
  • Every stop in its own time zone, and “What has happened”In testing
  • A page that refreshes every 30 seconds while openIn testing
  • Exact position only on the drive into their stopIn testing
  • Update notices by email: on the way, arrived, done, running lateComing
  • The stop’s documents and route updates on the linkComing

Your own trucks

  • Load builder and dispatch boardAvailable
  • Live position from your own driver appIn testing
  • An ETA that plans the driver’s hoursIn testing
  • Off-route cards for dispatch, and a late-risk mark on each stop’s progressIn testing

Brokered loads

  • The carrier’s ELD position and ETA, when it runs ANNEX ORBISComing
  • “Track a driver” link for any carrier’s driverComing
  • Telematics feeds from outside carriersComing
  • Request ETA from the loadComing
  • Office status updates and a check-call logComing
  • The Freight Beacon on a loadComing

Not offered

  • Push notifications
  • A shipper portal across all loads
  • EDI status messages (214)
  • Your logo on the tracking page

FAQ

Questions brokers ask

Can my shipper see the truck on a load I broker out?

On loads your own trucks run, yes: the position, the ETA and the stop events come from your drivers’ apps. On a load an outside carrier hauls, the link carries the stops and appointments; the carrier’s truck on the link — from its ANNEX ORBIS ELD, a “Track a driver” link or a telematics feed — and status updates from your office are Coming.

Will the receiver see where the truck was before them?

No. The exact position shows only while the truck is heading to their stop, from a fix under 2 minutes old, once it is at least 500 m past the previous stop’s private fence. Position history follows the same rule. On a this-stop link, the other stops show only their kind and city.

Does the shipper need an account or an app?

No. They open the link in any browser, a phone’s included, and confirm the email address it was sent to with a six-digit code. The link does not add them to your organization, and it ends on its own after 1 or 7 days.

Will they get an email when the truck arrives?

That is Coming: updates by email for on the way, arrived, done and running late, each recipient choosing which. Today the page updates itself every 30 seconds while it is open, and you can see in the list how often each person opened it.

Can I text the link to a dock?

Links and codes by text are Coming. Today the invitation goes by email, and every link can be copied and sent however you like. For a whole receiving team, a postable link lets each person claim their own link with their own email.

What happens when a link expires?

The page asks the holder for their name and email and sends you an access request. You approve or deny it on the load, and approving gives them a new link of their own.

Keep exploring

The rest of the broker platform

Give every customer their own link.

Tell us which lanes you run and who asks you for updates. We’ll set up a load on your own lanes and send a link you can open on your phone.

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