In order to receive the right instructions to execute the agreed transport, Jan de Rijk will send charter companies a consignment.
This message contains information about the loading and unloading locations, and local contact persons. To allocate the shipment to a driver with the right license and/or asset, information about the specifications of the cargo is added. Cargo quantities, weight and dimensions are added to determine co-loading options on your end. Please note that some cargo is not allowed to be loaded with others, this is also flagged. Also, the agreed pricing is added to the message, please look at those ahead of acknowledging the transport.
You can find the documentation regarding our standard format for the consignment message here. From there you can also download the JSON schema to aid in the development.
The standard service arranging transport requires physical execution, in-time and accurate information about the transport/parcel delivery as well as documents to be available. Thus, to inform our customers in time, we require to know which processes have been completed and are about to take place. The most important activities for Jan de Rijk Logistics are:
Actual Time of Arrival at the loading location
Actual Time of Departure at the loading location
Actual Time of Arrival at the unloading location
Completion of the unloading tasks, which we consider cargo has been delivered.
To access premises and cross borders we usually need to announce which driver will deliver the cargo, and by which vehicle. This information is shared with external parties to grant the required access and documents. For GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) reasons we only require the driver(s) full name, and license plates of the truck.
You can find the documentation regarding our standard format for the consignment event message here. From there you can also download the JSON schema to aid in the development.
To avoid unnecessary mail and phone contact, we prefer to receive GPS updates from your trucks as well in addition to the events.
No transport is completed when documents are not in place. Therefore, we would also like to set up a connection to receive the PDF for any Proof of Delivery, like the CMR. We require our 12-digit shipment number to be able to process it, so that should be in the file name.
Note an alternative to sending the CMR as a PDF file is to embed the PDF in the "Consignment Event Updates" message as mentioned above.