What waiting lorries cost a site
Four numbers you already know. The sum is on the page; change anything.
Counted the way carriers count it: from arrival (or the booked slot, if later) to departure.
What your carriers’ terms allow before waiting time is charged. 120 minutes if nobody has written it down.
The rate on their terms. Different carriers, different rates: use the one that invoices you most.
At your carriers’ rate, waiting is worth abouta year at this site.
£3,000 a week£600 a day£15.00 a vehicle20 chargeable min each
40 vehicles × 20 chargeable min ÷ 60 × £45 an hour × 5 days × 52 weeks
Every ten minutes off the average is worth £78,000 a year.
3,467 hours of chargeable waiting a year
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At your carriers’ rate, waiting is worth about £156,000 a year at this site. £3,000 a week, £600 a day, £15.00 a vehicle.
How the figure is worked out
Carriers count from arrival, or from the booked slot if that is later, to departure; arriving early earns nothing. Take away the free time allowed in their terms and what is left is chargeable time, at the hourly rate on those same terms.
The figure is exposure at your carriers’ rate. Whether it is invoiced line by line, disputed, or folded into next year’s haulage rates, somebody pays it. It is not a saving DockLedger promises: a clock records the waiting, it does not make a lorry leave sooner.
Two numbers move it: the minutes over the free time, on every vehicle every working day, and the free time. With 150 minutes of free time instead of 120, each visit’s chargeable time falls by up to half an hour. A short wait never offsets a long one, so a figure worked from an average is a floor.
The same three terms, on a clock
DockLedger starts a visit’s free time at the later of the booked slot and the arrival, so an early arrival earns nothing and a walk-in starts when it arrives. The free time and the hourly rate are the carrier’s own terms where you hold them, the site’s where you do not, and the clock runs to departure, not to the bay. Every finished visit carries the three figures a dispute pack prints: Counted time, Free time allowed and Chargeable time.
Waiting times are part of the Platform: £129 a site a month.
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