Your dock, their truck, a broker, a port. Baton keeps every hour of it in one place, so nothing gets booked twice and nothing gets dropped between companies.
NF-2207 Delta Foods export · 40 pallets chilled · Cairo to Alexandria port NF-2207 · THU 12 → FRI 13 NOV
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WHERE IT GOES WRONG
Each step on its own is easy. It’s the gaps between them: a door booked twice, a truck that’s late, a broker who heard last, and nobody sure who has what.
So here’s one Thursday morning at Northgate Freight, a sample company, in Baton.
09:12 MONA NEEDS THREE DOORS FOR THE AFTERNOON
Doors, trucks, forklifts and yards as rows of hours, with your partners’ free time beside them. When something’s held, it’s held. Nobody can book over it.
REFUSEDnothing written
North bank holds 12 of 12 doors, 15:00–16:00.
WHAT FITS INSTEAD
17:00–19:00 · North bankSame 3 doors, 2 hours later
Pencil 17:00–19:00
Two people can press at the same moment. One gets it. The other is told why.
A pencil keeps the hours until the time you set, then lets them go by itself.
You see who holds the hours and what fits instead, and nothing is written.
10:20 FORTY PALLETS HAVE TO REACH ALEXANDRIA TONIGHT
Name the steps and who carries each one. Companies share free and busy, never their bookings. Until a company says yes, its step stays amber, and stays yours to chase.
NF-2207 Sample data Delta Foods export · 40 pallets chilled
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10:22 DELTA TRUCKING LETS GO
Same hours, next carrier. The dock and the port have nothing to change.
Nine minutes, and nobody re-planned the job.
And if nobody answers at all, it doesn’t sit in someone’s inbox.
10:45 KARIM DOESN’T HAVE BATON
One message, one link. Karim sees one step and Sinai’s own hours, and nothing else of yours. A code to the phone on file shows the answer is real.
10:58 ENTRY 0418
Who held what, when, who agreed and how they answered. Each entry is sealed to the one before it, so the past can’t be quietly changed. When a customer disputes a delivery, you give them the proof.
Sinai Haulage accepted step 5Return empties · Fri 13 Nov, 06:00–09:00
SEALED TO THE ENTRY BEFORE IT
WHO HELD DOOR D-07 ON TUE 10 NOV?
Three bookings: NF-2201 in the morning, NF-2207 after lunch, and NF-2210, a partner’s, until 17:30.
NOT A FREIGHT COMPANY?
Nothing is built in. Each company names things the way its floor does, and Baton speaks those words on every screen, alert and message.
| Northgate Freight Northgate Freight and docks | Kestrel Lift Hire Kestrel Crane hire | Nile Radio Nile Radio Radio rental | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHAT YOU RUN | Dock door | Crane | Radio case |
| THE WORK | Booking | Hire | Order |
| EACH STAGE | Step | Stage | Prep step |
| SMALLEST HOLD | 30 min | 1 day | 1 hour |
| ONE JOB | Pick & pack → load → line-haul → port → return empties | Inspect → load out → transport → erect → return | Programming → charging → delivery → return |
12:00 THE JOB STARTS. EVERY STEP IS HELD.
Pick a job that crosses three companies. We’ll set it up in your words and run it with you.
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