Velcun is the unified backend for truckers and trucking companies. Post and match freight, negotiate rates, dispatch drivers, ingest live truck telemetry, exchange EDI with any TMS — and settle every load automatically.
Every shipment walks the same audited lifecycle. Steps marked auto happen without anyone touching a keyboard.
Shipper posts freight — via dashboard or an EDI 204 tender.
Carriers search lanes; loads scored by pay and $/mile.
Bids and counter-offers until both sides accept the rate.
Assign driver and truck; illegal transitions are blocked.
ELD pings accumulate miles; movement and geofence arrival update status.
Delivery triggers the invoice: linehaul + fuel surcharge.
Payment generates driver pay — per mile or % of linehaul.
Post freight with pickup windows, equipment and FSC. Carriers filter by lane, equipment and minimum rate.
GET /loads/searchCarrier bids, shipper counters, one live offer per side. Acceptance locks the agreed rate into the booking.
POST /offersAssign drivers and power units. A strict state machine keeps every shipment honest and auditable.
POST /bookings/:id/dispatchBatch GPS ingestion from ELDs with odometer-first mileage, movement detection and arrival geofencing.
POST /telemetry/pingsFacilities with dock doors and windows. Doors auto-assign; overlapping appointments are rejected.
POST /facilities/:id/appointmentsInvoices auto-issue on delivery. Payment settles the driver automatically — per-mile or percentage.
POST /billing/invoices/:id/payIngest 204 tenders (returns a 990), accept 214 status messages, translate X12 ↔ JSON. Full interchange audit.
POST /edi/x12/204Every domain event fans out to your endpoints, HMAC-SHA256 signed, with retries and delivery history.
X-Velcun-Event-Signature# 1. authenticate (or use an org API key: X-API-Key: vk_...) curl -s https://api.velcun.com/api/v1/auth/login \ -d '{"email":"shipper@velcun.demo","password":"•••"}' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' # 2. tender a load the legacy way — raw EDI X12 204 curl -s https://api.velcun.com/api/v1/edi/x12/204 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"raw":"ISA*00*...~ST*204*0001~B2**ACME-EDI-001~..."}' # Velcun parses it, creates the load, and answers: { "accepted": true, "load_id": 42, "x12_990": "ST*990*0001~B1*VELCUN*ACME-EDI-001**A~..." }
Every endpoint documented and interactive at api.velcun.com/docs.
Sign up free — a live API key is in the signup response, shown once. No sales call, no waitlist.
Pay-as-you-go keys pay by what the call is worth: 1¢ lane search, 3¢ bid placed, 1¢ telemetry batch, 5¢ EDI transaction. Plans bundle an allowance instead.
204 tenders in, 990 responses out, 214 status streams both directions.
Subscribe per event type; verify every delivery against the shared secret.
These aren't our numbers — they're the industry's own benchmarks. Each one is a cost carriers already pay, and each maps to a module that automates it.
Independent dispatchers charge 4–7% of gross (median 5–6%) — about $1,200–$1,400 per truck per month, or $250–500/week flat.
→ automated by auto-bid + auto-negotiateBrokers pay Net 30–60 (often 90+). Carriers factor invoices at 2.5–3.5% for cash flow — thousands per truck per year in fees.
→ automated by invoice-on-delivery + auto-collectionThe benchmark is 15–20% empty miles; every +10 points costs a truck roughly $27,000 a year at a $2.26/mi operating cost.
→ automated by lane matching + backhaul searchDetention runs $50–100+/hr after 2 free hours, drivers wait 117–209 hrs/year, and most claims are never documented — billions go unclaimed industry-wide.
→ automated by geofence timestamps = evidenceDAT and Truckstop run $45–$199/month per seat, before a TMS. Searching, booking and tracking live in three disconnected tools.
→ included: load board, dispatch, tracking, docsPOD chasing, rate confirmations, driver settlements, IFTA mileage — hours per truck per week that nobody bills for.
→ automated end to end by the ledgerDriver on the road? Check in at velcun.com/driver.html — load, check-ins and POD on one phone screen. No app store.
Sources: ATRI Operational Costs of Trucking (2024–25) · FMCSA/ATRI detention research · learndispatch.com dispatch-pricing survey · DAT & Truckstop published pricing · Porter Freight Funding / OTR Solutions factoring rates · Scale Funding payment-trends report.
Open the dashboard with the demo accounts and run a load end to end — bid, dispatch, track, invoice, settle — in under five minutes.