Hot shot

Bill the load, the miles, the fuel and the wait

Wait time you never billed is the most expensive hour of the week. RigTicket puts every piece of the run on one ticket, gets it signed at the gate, and turns the week into an invoice.

  • Per load, per mile, fuel surcharge, wait time and deadhead lines
  • Pickup and delivery on the ticket
  • Signature at the gate on the phone screen
  • Photos of the load, the straps or the damage
  • DOT medical, CDL, TWIC and insurance renewals tracked
  • Fuel receipts snapped at the pump and categorised
Start free

The lines a hot shot actually runs

Hot shot pricing is not one shape. Some runs are a flat rate for the load, some are per loaded mile, some carry a fuel surcharge as a percentage, and almost all of them involve sitting. RigTicket lets a rate line be any of those: flat, per mile, per load, per hour or a percentage.

The fuel surcharge is calculated against the haul lines rather than the whole ticket, so a percentage never lands on top of a reimbursement and gets kicked back.

Wait time is the money you are leaving

Two hours at a gate happens most days and gets billed almost never, because by the time you are unloaded it is not worth arguing about. If wait time is a line on a ticket that gets signed before you leave, it stops being an argument and starts being an invoice line.

Your compliance paperwork in one place

A DOT medical card that lapses parks the truck. So does an expired insurance certificate when a broker asks for it. Put them in the cert wallet once with their dates and the reminders start at 60 days.

Same wallet handles the CDL, TWIC, hazmat endorsement and MC authority. How hot shot invoicing usually works.

No signal on the lease road

Delivery gates are exactly where coverage dies. The ticket, the photos and the signature are written to the phone first, so nothing depends on a bar of service, and they upload themselves once you are back on the highway.

Questions

Can I invoice per load instead of per mile?

Yes, and you can do both on the same ticket. Rate lines can be flat, per load, per mile, per hour or a percentage.

Does it track deadhead separately?

Yes. Deadhead is its own line with its own rate, so loaded and empty miles never get mixed together.

Can I bill a broker and a direct customer differently?

Yes. Rate profiles are per customer or per job, so a broker's agreed rates and a direct customer's rates both fill in automatically.

Is there ELD or dispatch in here?

No. This is billing, expenses and compliance paperwork. It is not a dispatch board and it is not an ELD.

Stop writing tickets on a legal pad

Fill it out on the phone, get it signed on the lease, invoice it from the truck. Free to start.

Start free