Loads
Book loads, send them to drivers, follow them to delivery and keep their paperwork in one place.
Create or edit a load
Click "+ New load". Add the customer first if they aren’t in Tovarlo yet ("+ Add customer").
- Pick the "Customer" and add a "Customer reference / PO" if there is one.
- Fill in the "Pickup" and "Delivery": city, date, "Window from" and "Window to", and an optional address. Use "+ Extra pickup" or "+ Extra delivery" for more stops, and "Remove" to take one out.
- Add "Equipment", "Commodity", "Weight (lb)", "Loaded miles", "Rate (USD)" and "Special instructions for the driver".
Click "Save". To change a load, open it and click "Edit load". A load can be edited until it’s picked up. You need the "Dispatch and assign loads" permission to create, edit or dispatch loads; without it you can view them.
Load templates for regular lanes
Open any load and click "Save as template" to keep its customer, stops, times and rate.
To use one, click "Load templates", then "Create loads" next to the template. Choose the "First pickup date", "How many loads" (up to 30), how they "Repeat" ("Weekdays only", "Every day" or "Same day every week") and, if you like, "Order numbers (optional, comma-separated)". Click "Create loads". "Delete" removes a template.
Finding a load and the load panel
The tabs sort your loads: "All", "Needs driver", "Waiting for driver", "On the road", "Ready to invoice" and "Archived". The search box finds a load by number, reference, city, customer or driver.
Click a load to open its panel. It shows the progress (Booked, Dispatched, In transit, Delivered, Invoiced), the route and stops, rate and miles, the assignment, charges and invoice, profit, the IFTA trip record, documents and an activity log with the time of every change. The panel has its own link, so you can share it or use the back button.
Assign a driver and truck, and send it
In "Assignment" pick the "Driver", "Truck" and "Trailer", then click "Save assignment". If you leave the truck blank, Tovarlo uses the driver’s default truck; for the trailer it picks a free trailer of the right type. Trucks in the shop or on another load aren’t listed.
If the driver already has a load on the same days, you see "… is already booked" with the other load. Click "Pick someone else" or "Assign anyway".
Then click "Send to driver". The load goes to the driver app.
- Company drivers get the load assigned. They can’t decline it.
- Owner-operators get an offer and accept or reject it in the app. A rejection always comes with a reason, which shows on the load and on the dashboard; pick another driver.
- On the Solo plan there is no offer step: the load goes straight to the driver.
"Take back" pulls a dispatched load back to booked.
Team loads
Pick a "Second driver" in the assignment, then the "Second driver role": "Team driver (both on the whole trip)" or "Relay leg (swap partway)". Team pay splits 50/50 unless you change the split on the Driver pay screen. See /help/driver-pay.
Status, cancel and archive
Drivers update the load from the app as they go. The office can do it too: "Mark picked up" (once the driver has accepted) and "Mark delivered". When a load is delivered, its miles are added to the truck’s odometer.
- "Cancel load" works while a load is booked or dispatched.
- "Archive" hides a booked, cancelled or delivered load. A load with a driver on the road can’t be archived. Find it later under "Archived" and click "Restore". Loads are never deleted.
If a driver’s phone sends a tap more than 14 days late, the panel shows "Entered late, date adjusted": the entry was recorded 14 days back. Check the dates.
Tracking link for your customer
In the load panel, "Tracking link" makes a page your customer can open without signing in. It shows your logo, name and color, the load number and their reference, the pickup and delivery cities with appointment dates, and each step with the time the driver tapped it, in the stop's time zone. It never shows the rate, the driver, street addresses or locations. Your customer can switch it to Spanish.
- Tick "Include delivery paperwork (POD and BOL)" before you click "Share tracking link" if your customer should be able to download them. It's off unless you tick it.
- "Copy link" copies the address. "Email to customer" sends it to the customer's billing email, or to any address you type. You can email a load's link up to 10 times a day. An email that couldn't be sent doesn't count, and shows in the load's activity log.
- "Turn off link" stops the page at once. "Make a new link" gives a new address, and the old one stops working.
A link also stops working 30 days after the load is delivered, when the load is archived, and if your company's Tovarlo account is closed. Then the page says "This tracking link is no longer active. Contact [your company] for an update." with your phone and email from Settings. Each share, copy, email and change is in the load's activity log. You need the "Dispatch and assign loads" permission.
Documents, charges and profit
"Documents" shows what the driver scanned in the app and what the office uploaded. To add one, pick the type (Rate con, BOL, POD, Receipt, Lumper receipt, Scale ticket, Other), choose a PDF, JPG or PNG under 10 MB and click "Upload file". If a delivered load has no POD, the panel says so.
"Charges and invoice" shows the linehaul and extra charges. Use "+ Extra charge (lumper, stop-off, layover)" to add one. When the driver taps arrival and departure times, "Time at stops" shows time on site and a button to bill detention. "Create invoice" appears once the load is delivered (needs the "Invoices and payments" permission). See /help/invoices.
"Profit" shows revenue less driver pay, load expenses and any factoring fee, plus fuel recovered from the driver on a pay statement. You need the "Driver pay and payroll" permission to see it.
"Trip record (IFTA)" holds the miles in each state and the odometer for the load. Estimated route miles. Add detours and correct with odometer readings. See /help/ifta.
Page checked on November 7, 2026.