Run every container, driver, and document from one board.
Meridian TMS is a complete management system for 3PL dispatch. Book customers and orders, build container loads, assign drivers, watch the freight move on a live GPS map, message the driver on the load itself, verify the paperwork, and keep an audit trail of everything that happened.
One order, one container, one driver — from booking to verified delivery. Watch how the board, the live map, the load thread, and the audit trail connect.
Meridian TMS product tour — dispatch board and live GPS map in motion.
What you'll see
0:00
Dispatch board
Filter every container, chassis, and status in one list.
0:25
Assign a driver
Pick a driver per row; the load and driver are notified instantly.
0:50
Live GPS map
Watch equipment, drivers, and your own locations move in real time.
1:15
Chat & documents
Resolve exceptions in the load thread, then verify the BOL/POD.
1:40
Audit & export
Every action recorded, searchable, and exportable to CSV or PDF.
A transportation management and operations platform for third-party logistics teams moving containers. It holds the commercial side — customers and orders — and the operational side — loads, equipment, drivers, locations, and paperwork — in a single record, so nothing has to be re-keyed between systems or chased down over the phone.
Dispatchers work a board. Drivers work a phone. Admins own the company setup, who has access, and the audit history. All three see the same load, updated live.
One record per load
Order, equipment, driver, chat, and documents together.
Real time by default
Position and status changes push to the board instantly.
Multi-company
Each business runs its own isolated workspace.
Accountable
Every meaningful action is written to the audit log.
A load, end to end
Order booked
Customer, reference, stops, and dates captured.
Driver assigned
Load leaves unassigned and the driver is notified.
En route
Position streams to the map; status updates as it moves.
Exception handled
Dispatch and driver resolve it in the thread.
POD verified
Document uploaded, reviewed, and approved.
Delivered & logged
Status closed out and written to the audit log.
Everything inside the system
Nine connected modules. Each one feeds the next, so the work you do in dispatch shows up in the customer's history, the driver's phone, and the audit log without extra entry.
Customers
A CRM built for freight. Store billing contacts and locations, open a customer profile drawer, and read their full order history without leaving the page.
Customer profiles
Order history drawer
Editable by admin & dispatch
Orders
Take the booking once. Reference numbers, pickup and delivery stops, dates, and commodity details carry straight through to the load you dispatch.
Order intake
Stops & dates
Order → load handoff
Dispatch board
The operational center: every container, chassis, size, hazmat flag, and status in one filterable list beside a live map of where the freight actually is.
Search & status filters
Per-row driver picker
Status transitions in one click
Live GPS map
Google Maps with color-coded status markers for equipment, live driver positions, and your own operation locations and geofences layered on top.
Real-time position stream
Operation location layers
GPS history CSV export
Fleet & drivers
Add drivers, keep license numbers and expiry dates current, issue invite codes, and assign, swap, or remove a driver from a load in seconds.
Driver records & licensing
Invite codes
Assign / swap / remove
Load messaging
Every load carries a private dispatcher-to-driver thread, so gate instructions, delays, and exceptions stay attached to the freight instead of a group text.
Per-load threads
Real-time delivery
Logged for review
Documents
Drivers upload BOLs and PODs from the cab. Dispatch opens the scan, checks the extracted fields, and approves or rejects with a reason.
Driver uploads
Verification workflow
Stored privately per load
Access control
Admin, dispatcher, and driver roles are enforced on the server. Invite people by email with exactly the roles you intend to grant, and revoke them the same way.
Role-based permissions
Email invites
Grant / revoke history
Audit log
Assignments, status changes, document decisions, messages, and access grants are all recorded — searchable, filterable, and exportable to CSV or PDF.
Filter by container, driver, customer
Server-side paging
CSV & PDF export
Getting started, step by step
You can be dispatching your first load the same day you sign up.
01
Create your company workspace
Sign up as a dispatcher and name your company. Meridian creates a private tenant for you and calibrates it to your local timezone automatically.
02
Set up locations and people
Add your terminals, yards, and monitoring locations, then invite dispatchers and drivers with the exact roles you want them to have.
03
Book customers and orders
Enter your customers and take orders against them. Each order becomes a container load ready to be built and dispatched.
04
Dispatch, track, and close out
Assign a driver, follow the load on the live map, message in the load thread, review the paperwork, and mark it delivered — all audited.
Three roles, one shared load
Everyone sees exactly what their job needs — and nothing it doesn't.
Short case studies from operations managers, dispatchers, and logistics directors running Meridian TMS on live freight.
We were running the yard off a whiteboard and three group chats. Now dispatch opens one board in the morning, assigns the day's containers per row, and the drivers already have the load on their phones before they clock in.
Morning dispatch cut from 90 to 20 minutes
Danielle Ortiz
Operations Manager
Harbor Line Drayage · 34 trucks
The load thread is the part that changed our day. Gate holds and appointment changes stay attached to the container instead of getting lost in texts, so whoever picks up the shift can read exactly what happened.
Fewer check calls, no lost instructions
Marcus Bell
Lead Dispatcher
Redline Intermodal · 3PL brokerage
Drivers upload the POD from the cab and we verify the extracted fields the same hour. Billing stopped waiting on paperwork, and when a customer disputes something the audit log settles it in a minute.
Invoices go out same day as delivery
Priya Raman
Director of Logistics
Meridian Freight Partners · 12 customers
Questions before you start
Who is Meridian TMS for?
3PLs, drayage and intermodal carriers, and small-to-mid fleets that need dispatch, tracking, driver communication, and paperwork in one place instead of spread across spreadsheets and texts.
Is my company's data separate from everyone else's?
Yes. Each company gets its own workspace, and every record — customers, orders, loads, drivers, documents — is scoped to your organization and enforced at the database level.
How do drivers get in?
You issue an invite code from the fleet page or invite them by email. The driver creates an account, enters the code, and lands directly in the driver portal with only their assigned loads.
What do drivers actually see?
A focused mobile-friendly portal: their assigned loads, status buttons from pickup to delivery, the chat thread with dispatch, and document upload — nothing from the rest of the board.
Put your whole operation on one board.
Create a workspace for your company in a minute, then invite your dispatchers and drivers. Drivers join free with an invite code.
