Nobody schedules the arrivals. Everybody pays for them.
Domestic warehouses run on appointments. Berths run on schedules. But at most air cargo
facilities, trucks still arrive at the dock doors unannounced — to pick up imports, drop off exports, or
both in the same trip — while at ocean terminals and inland depots, the in-gate queue stacks with
arrivals nobody sequenced. The facilities aren’t short on doors or real estate, they’re bereft of a
schedule everyone can see.
Truck Slot Management brings appointments to the dock door and the gate alike — matched to
real capacity, visible to every party.
Arrivals nobody saw coming.
Unscheduled trucks bunch at peaks and leave doors idle between them. The dock finds out what a
trucker wants — import pickup, export drop, or both — when the driver is at the counter.
Driver hours burned in line.
Two hours idling outside a warehouse are lost hours for truckers limited by hours-of-service
regulations and create congestion with tractor-trailers having to find impromptu and unofficial
parking places — a cost both sides pay and neither controls.
Docks staffed to guesswork.
Without a booked schedule, dock-door staffing and staging run on estimates — freight gets
retrieved for while the driver waits, instead of pulled to a door before their arrival.
No record when it's disputed.
Who arrived at which door, when, against what booking? Manual check-in processes and “Who’s
next?” calls from warehouse staff on forklifts settles nothing. Without a shared arrival record, every
dispute is a standoff.
The first module most communities choose.
Truck Slot Management is where most cargo communities start with Kalé: problems are visible to
the naked eye, the results are measurable in weeks, and truckers adopt it because they gain the
most — less idling, more driving. For ports with bulk agricultural business, a bulk hauler who needs
three round trips to stay profitable doesn't fight a system that guarantees he’ll make them all.
And the schedule is a beginning, not an end. TSM runs as a module of the AIRPORT CARGO
COMMUNITY SYSTEM (ACS) at airports and the PORT COMMUNITY SYSTEM (PCS) at seaports — so
the appointment book that fixes the dock becomes the first entry in a community-wide record:
advance shipment data, single-window filings, shared visibility, and billing that matches reality.
› Start at the dock — prove the result in weeks
› Extend to advance data, filings, and shared visibility at your pace
› One community record, built one module at a time
A Major Canadian Port
Trucks used to line up before dawn and idle for hours. With appointment-based truck management
on Kalé's platform, the port converted arrival chaos into scheduled flow.
Turnaround: truck turnaround times cut by more than 40 percent
Control: unauthorized truck arrivals down more than 30 percent
Accuracy: bookings matched to actual arrivals at better than 95 percent
A Major Southeastern U.S. Hub
North America's first airport cargo community deployment converted unscheduled truck arrivals
and manual processing into an appointment-driven digital flow.
Truck waiting time: reduced by 75 percent
Cargo processing time: cut in half — a 50 percent reduction
Throughput: 40 percent more cargo handled without infrastructure expansion
