Add-On — A line item added to a rate, like a fuel surcharge, demurrage fee, or wash-out charge. Learn moreApex / Command / Integra — Command Alkon ticketing systems. Many producers migrate to Tread from one of these. Tread imports historical tickets and replaces day-of dispatch and ticket capture.Approval — The act of confirming work is correct before it bills. Tread approves at three tiers: shift, job, and load. Learn moreAs Directed — A placeholder material, haul-from, or haul-to used on long-running projects where the actual product or destination changes day to day. The daily order resolves the placeholder before dispatch.
Class Five — A Minnesota-spec base aggregate (crushed rock under MnDOT class 5). Common term in Twin Cities and greater MN markets.Connected Customer — A customer that has its own Tread login. They see their orders, GPS, and tickets in real time. Learn moreConnected Vendor — A hauler your company shares jobs with through Tread. The vendor accepts the job and either runs it or sub-dispatches. Learn more
DBE — Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. A federal certification used to track minority-owned, women-owned, and small-business participation on public-works jobs. Drives prevailing-wage and reporting compliance. Learn moreDepartment — An optional grouping for reporting. Used to slice revenue, hours, or loads by business unit. Learn moreDriver Pay — The pay a driver earns for their work. Calculated from the driver-side rate on the order, not the customer-side rate. Learn more
End Dump — An open-top trailer with a hydraulic lift that dumps from the rear. The standard aggregate truck type across most North American markets.Equipment — A truck, trailer, or paver tracked in Tread. Equipment belongs to an Equipment Type. Learn moreEquipment Type — The category an equipment belongs to (Tri-Axle Dump, Belly Dump, Tractor). Capacity and unit of measure live on the type. Learn more
Fines / Screenings — Small aggregate, often a byproduct of crushing larger rock. Sold as a separate material with its own rate and unit of measure.Foreman — A user role for jobsite supervisors. Foremen create orders, dispatch trucks, and approve work from the mobile app. Learn moreFuel Surcharge — A pass-through fee tied to the price of diesel. Set up as three pieces: a Fuel Price Index, a Surcharge Schedule, and an Add-On. Learn more
Geofence — A virtual fence around a site. Triggers automatic load start and end when a truck enters or leaves. Learn moreGeofence Timer — The number of seconds a truck must stay inside or outside a geofence before Tread fires the start or end event. Filters out drive-bys. Learn more
Internal Driver — A driver on your own company that you dispatch directly. Contrast with a Shared Driver (from a partner) or a Vendor. Learn moreITO — Independent Trucking Contractor. A driver-owner that runs as a single-truck vendor, similar to an O&O but contracted as a vendor rather than dispatched directly.
Label — A color-coded tag on orders, projects, jobs, drivers, equipment, customers, or vendors. Used for filtering and dispatch flow. Learn moreLive Map — The dispatch screen that shows every active truck on a map. Learn moreLoad — One pickup-to-drop-off cycle. A job has many loads. Learn more
Material — What you haul (sand, asphalt, concrete, dirt). Materials carry a unit of measure. Learn moreMultis — Multi-driver vendors. Shorthand for vendors that run more than one truck and dispatch their own drivers, as opposed to single-truck owner-operators.
O&O / Owner-Operator — A driver who owns their truck and runs for you directly. Dispatched like an internal driver. Learn moreOrder — One day’s work on a project. The unit dispatchers create and assign drivers to. Learn more
Paver Tracker — Telemetry from a paver. Tread uses it for paving stats and for moving geofences on linear paving jobs. Learn morePneumatics — Sealed pressurized tank trailers used to haul cement, lime, fly ash, and other powdered or granular materials. A separate equipment type from end dumps and belly dumps.Prevailing Wage (PW) — A government-mandated wage rate on public-works jobs. Flagged on the project; rates come from the PW fields on rate schedules, which can apply per equipment type or per material — not per driver. Learn moreProject — A long-running container for a customer engagement. Holds the rates, the materials, and the sites. Orders run against the project. Learn more
RAP — Recycled Asphalt Pavement. Reclaimed asphalt that’s milled, processed, and re-used as a base or mix component. Tracked as its own material with its own rate.Rate Card — A saved set of customer-, vendor-, or driver-side rates. Apply by default or per project. Learn more
Scale Ticket — The pre-Tread paper ticket from the producer’s scale house. Captures truck, material, weight, and time. Tread digitizes scale tickets through OCR or direct integration. Learn moreService Class — An optional code on a job for accounting (Trucking, Paving, Demolition). Maps to cost codes in your accounting system. Learn moreSettlement — The output document. Receivables for a customer become an invoice. Payables for a driver or vendor become a pay statement. Learn moreShared Driver — A driver another company shares to you, so you assign them directly like your own. An Owner-Operator is the most common case. Learn moreShift — One driver’s full day. Spans multiple jobs and loads. Learn moreSite — A physical pickup or drop-off location. Sites carry a geofence and a lat/long. Learn moreSplit Flag — A configuration that flags loads that should split across multiple invoices or settlements (different materials, different customers, different cost codes). Learn more
Telematics — GPS and engine data from a truck’s onboard hardware (Samsara, Geotab). Powers the live map and auto-geofence triggers. Learn moreTicket — Proof of a load. Either a scale ticket (paper or digital) or the driver’s logged hours. Learn moreTicket Chaser — The Tread agent that reads scale tickets, queues exceptions, and pre-fills approval data. Learn moreTrackit — Command Alkon’s telematics product. A common pre-Tread system that customers replace or run alongside Tread during cutover.Tread Customer — Your own account. Creates Projects and Orders and sends dispatches to Drivers or Vendors. Sits between the Connected Customer and the Vendor in the Connected Ecosystem. Learn more
Unit of Measure (UoM) — How you count a load (ton, cubic yard, hour, load). Lives on the Equipment Type and on the Material. Mismatches throw a warning at approval.
