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Add-On — A line item added to a rate, like a fuel surcharge, demurrage fee, or wash-out charge. Learn more Apex / 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 more As 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.

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BME — A leased-truck pool entity used at multi-entity haulers. Trucks belong to the BME and are leased to the operating companies that dispatch them.

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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 more Connected Vendor — A hauler your company shares jobs with through Tread. The vendor accepts the job and either runs it or sub-dispatches. Learn more

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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 more Department — An optional grouping for reporting. Used to slice revenue, hours, or loads by business unit. Learn more Driver 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

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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 more Equipment Type — The category an equipment belongs to (Tri-Axle Dump, Belly Dump, Tractor). Capacity and unit of measure live on the type. Learn more

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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 more Fuel 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

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Geofence — A virtual fence around a site. Triggers automatic load start and end when a truck enters or leaves. Learn more Geofence 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

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Internal Driver — A driver on your own company that you dispatch directly. Contrast with a Shared Driver (from a partner) or a Vendor. Learn more ITO — 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.

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Job — One driver’s assignment for one order. An order with ten trucks has ten jobs. Learn more

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Label — A color-coded tag on orders, projects, jobs, drivers, equipment, customers, or vendors. Used for filtering and dispatch flow. Learn more Live Map — The dispatch screen that shows every active truck on a map. Learn more Load — One pickup-to-drop-off cycle. A job has many loads. Learn more

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Material — What you haul (sand, asphalt, concrete, dirt). Materials carry a unit of measure. Learn more Multis — Multi-driver vendors. Shorthand for vendors that run more than one truck and dispatch their own drivers, as opposed to single-truck owner-operators.

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O&O / Owner-Operator — A driver who owns their truck and runs for you directly. Dispatched like an internal driver. Learn more Order — One day’s work on a project. The unit dispatchers create and assign drivers to. Learn more

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Paver Tracker — Telemetry from a paver. Tread uses it for paving stats and for moving geofences on linear paving jobs. Learn more Pneumatics — 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 more Project — A long-running container for a customer engagement. Holds the rates, the materials, and the sites. Orders run against the project. Learn more

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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

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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 more Service Class — An optional code on a job for accounting (Trucking, Paving, Demolition). Maps to cost codes in your accounting system. Learn more Settlement — The output document. Receivables for a customer become an invoice. Payables for a driver or vendor become a pay statement. Learn more Shared 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 more Shift — One driver’s full day. Spans multiple jobs and loads. Learn more Site — A physical pickup or drop-off location. Sites carry a geofence and a lat/long. Learn more Split Flag — A configuration that flags loads that should split across multiple invoices or settlements (different materials, different customers, different cost codes). Learn more

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Telematics — GPS and engine data from a truck’s onboard hardware (Samsara, Geotab). Powers the live map and auto-geofence triggers. Learn more Ticket — Proof of a load. Either a scale ticket (paper or digital) or the driver’s logged hours. Learn more Ticket Chaser — The Tread agent that reads scale tickets, queues exceptions, and pre-fills approval data. Learn more Trackit — 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

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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.

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Vendor — A hauling company that runs jobs for you. Receives dispatches and assigns its own drivers. See also Connected Vendor. Learn more