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Carrier Onboarding

Once a forwarder has successfully vetted a new trucking company, carrier onboarding follows: the structured admission of that carrier into its own systems and processes.

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Once a forwarder has successfully vetted a new trucking company, carrier onboarding follows: the structured admission of that carrier into its own systems and processes.

This covers setting up master data, concluding the framework or subcontractor agreement including liability and payment terms, filing insurance and licence evidence with expiry dates, activating the…

Well-documented onboarding materially shortens the time to first load and forms the evidentiary basis for later obligations towards customers, insurers and authorities.

Last updated: 2 September 2026

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Once a forwarder has successfully vetted a new trucking company, carrier onboarding follows: the structured admission of that carrier into its own systems and processes. This covers setting up master data, concluding the framework or subcontractor agreement including liability and payment terms, filing insurance and licence evidence with expiry dates, activating the carrier in the transport management system, and establishing the technical connection for status messages and electronic settlement. Well-documented onboarding materially shortens the time to first load and forms the evidentiary basis for later obligations towards customers, insurers and authorities. It is clearly distinct from carrier vetting: vetting decides whether a carrier is admitted at all, onboarding makes sure it can then actually be dispatched.

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