Procure it. Move it. Audit it. One drayage platform, one data model.
From the RFP that sets your lane rates to the invoice you dispute six weeks later, Gnosis manages the entire drayage lifecycle on the same first-source milestone data that already powers your container tracking.
Most of your demurrage isn’t caused by slow ships.
It’s caused by the 24–72 hours between when a container becomes available and when a truck is actually assigned to move it. The free days expire in a gap your team can’t see in time. Then the dray invoice arrives weeks later with detention, chassis, and per-diem charges nobody can verify against what actually happened.
You can’t procure with leverage
You negotiate dray rates in spreadsheets, by email, lane by lane, with no view of which carriers actually perform. You award on price and find out about service later.
You can’t execute fast enough
The container is available, but the tender, the appointment, and the delivery order live in three different inboxes. The clock runs while you coordinate.
You can’t audit what you’re billed
The dray invoice has detention, chassis splits, and fuel surcharges you have no independent data to check. Without proof, you pay it.
One platform for the entire drayage lifecycle.
The rate you award in procurement becomes the rate you execute against and the rate you audit against. The milestone data that moves the container is the same data that proves what the carrier may bill. Nothing is re-keyed. Nothing is taken on the carrier’s word.
Companies that run drayage on Gnosis
Run an RFP across every lane and every carrier, then award on more than price.
Stop negotiating drayage in spreadsheets. Gnosis gives you an RFP tool built for the whole network: load every lane you run, invite every carrier you use (or want to use), and collect structured bids in one place. Then award by lane based on the full picture, including the rate and the performance data we already have on how each carrier actually behaves.
The rate you award is no longer a number in a forgotten spreadsheet. It’s a live contract the system enforces, so the carrier bills what they bid, and you can prove it when they don’t.
RFP across all lanes and carriers
Build a bid event covering your entire dray network, every port-to-DC lane and every regional carrier. Carriers submit structured rates per lane, per container type, per accessorial.
Award on rate and performance
Because Gnosis already tracks dray moves, you see each carrier’s real on-time delivery, detention behavior, and chassis discipline by lane, not just the number they quoted. Award the lane to the carrier who actually performs it.
Multi-carrier, multi-lane awards
Split a lane across a primary and backup carrier, set allocation percentages, and define the fallback order that execution will follow automatically.
Awarded rates become the contract
The moment you award, those rates load into the platform as the rate card. That’s the rate execution tenders at, and the rate auditing checks every future invoice against.
Close the window between “available” and “assigned.”
The instant a container is available, whether discharged, off rail, or customs-cleared, Gnosis can tender it to the awarded carrier for that lane, manage acceptance, schedule the delivery, and track the move end to end. The coordination that used to take days of email happens in minutes, before the demurrage clock matters.
Every hour you compress in this window is demurrage and per-diem you don’t pay. Execution isn’t a dispatch board. It’s the fastest path from “container available” to “truck assigned,” driven by data your team didn’t have to go find.
Automated tendering
When milestone data shows a container is ready, the system tenders it to the primary awarded carrier at the awarded rate, whether automatically, by rule, or with one click.
Acceptance & fallback waterfall
The carrier accepts or declines. On a decline or timeout, the tender rolls to the next carrier in your awarded fallback order. No container sits unassigned waiting for someone to notice.
Delivery scheduling & appointments
Book the DC delivery appointment and warehouse receiving window inside the same flow. Match the dray move to the door that’s actually open.
Delivery order automation
Generate and send the delivery order to the carrier automatically, with no manual document handoff.
Full visibility on the dray leg
Track gate-out, in-transit, delivered, and empty return with the same first-source milestone data as ocean. Your DC team sees what’s inbound today; your ops team sees what’s at risk.
Exception surfacing
Containers approaching last free day with no accepted tender get flagged before they cost you, not after the invoice.
Audit every dray invoice against what actually happened.
When the dray invoice arrives, Gnosis compares every line against two things no one else can: the rate you awarded in procurement, and the milestone data that recorded what actually happened on the move. Detention billed for days the container wasn’t held. Chassis days that don’t match the timeline. Fuel surcharges off the published index. Rates above what the carrier bid. We flag it all, with the evidence attached.
A freight auditor checks your invoice against the carrier’s contract. We check it against what actually happened on the road: when it gated out, when the empty came back, and what you awarded. That’s the difference between checking paperwork and having independent evidence.
Line-by-line against the awarded rate
Base rate, accessorials, and surcharges are each compared to the rate card you set in procurement. Billed above the bid? Flagged.
Detention & per-diem against milestone data
We know when the container actually gated out and when the empty was actually returned. If detention is billed for time that didn’t happen, the data disputes it for you.
Chassis & accessorial validation
Chassis days, splits, pre-pulls, and dwell charges checked against the real timeline, not the carrier’s assertion.
Single approve / dispute queue
Your AP team sees what was charged, what we calculate is owed, and the milestone evidence behind the difference. Approve clean invoices; dispute the rest with a carrier-facing document generated automatically.
It’s a closed loop, on one data model.
No competitor has all three on a single data model. A TMS can tender, an auditor can review invoices, and a spreadsheet can hold an RFP, but they all live apart. Only Gnosis runs procurement, execution, and audit on the same first-source milestone data, which is why the loop actually closes instead of leaking at every handoff.
Procure
Awarded rates become the contract.
Execute
Tender at the awarded rate, on milestone triggers.
Audit
Check every invoice against what happened.
The loop closes. Performance measured in execution and auditing, such as who’s on time, who over-bills, and who holds chassis, feeds your next RFP, so every procurement round is smarter than the last.
Configured to how you actually move freight.
The drayage platform is deeply configured per customer. It connects to the carriers you use the way they actually operate, whether that is EDI, API, or email, handles your tender rules and fallback logic, and integrates with your freight forwarder, terminals, and ERP. Typical configuration runs 4 to 8 weeks depending on carrier count and integration complexity, and your dedicated engineering team builds and tunes it with you. We’ll give you an honest timeline during scoping, not after you sign.
Start with what your drayage is actually costing you.
Tell us your lanes and volumes. We’ll show you where the demurrage and per-diem are leaking today, how much of your dray invoicing is likely disputable, and what end-to-end management would change.