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Detention, captured.

Every hour a truck sits at a dock beyond free time is worth $50–100+ — and most of it is never billed, because claims need timestamps nobody keeps. Velcun keeps them automatically.

How Velcun captures it

1. Arrival is timestamped by geofence — the truck's GPS (ELD feed or the driver's phone) crosses the facility boundary and the clock starts. No driver forms, no memory.
2. A watchdog accrues every billable hour — free time (default 2h) counts down; beyond it, detention accrues hourly against the load's terms.
3. It rides the invoice as a line item — when the load delivers, detention lands on the freight invoice next to linehaul and FSC, and flows out as an EDI 210 the broker's AP system accepts.
4. The evidence is exportable — ping-by-ping arrival history backs the claim if it's disputed.

The math per truck

Capture even 2 detention hours a week at the ATRI average and you recover roughly $6,600 a year per truck that today quietly evaporates — on top of a dispatcher replacement that costs $1,000/truck/month instead of $1,200–$1,400 and a percentage of gross.

Sources: ATRI — Financial Impacts of Detention (2024) & Operational Costs of Trucking (2024–25); FMCSA — Impact of Driver Detention Time; DAT detention-fee data. Estimates are industry benchmarks, not guarantees.