List of Lane Constraints (Employee)

This page allows you to define lane level restrictions for carriers or for a specific carrier/tariff/service combination. Lane constraints are normally defined for common carriers so that contracted lane commitments with the carrier can be honored. This data is used by Transportation Planner and Route, Rate and Schedule process when optimizing loads and trips.

While most lane constraints refer to an origin zone and a destination zone, the origin and/or destination could instead reference a hub.

Lane constraints are not bi-directional. If the origin and destination are not in the same zone and the carrier could potentially move goods in either direction, two separate lane constraints must be created.

For tariffs where Rate Type is ‘Round Trip’, the destination for the lane constraint will be the point on the itinerary that is farthest from the origin location.

Lane constraints will refer to a unique combination of the following:

• Carrier
• Tariff
• Service
• Origin (Hub or Zone)
• Destination (Hub or Zone)
• Enforce Constraints as Percentage
• Division
• Equipment Type
• Commodity
• Bucket Type (i.e. Daily, Weekly, Monthly)
• Resource Project
• Start Date/Time
• End Date/Time

Note: Start Date/Time and End Date/Time cannot overlap for lane constraints where all of the other values are the same.

You can access this page by selecting Lane Constraints from the List of Carriers and List of Services for Tariff pages or from the navigation pad.

List

By default, the list is sorted in ascending order by the following fields.

• Carrier ID
• Tariff Number
• Service
• Start Date/Time
• Origin Zone
• Destination Zone

For information on icons and functionalities available on the list pages, see Web Interface lists.

Notes:

• When you access this page from the list of carriers, this list displays only the lane constraints associated with a selected carrier.
• When you access this page from the list of services for a tariff, this list displays only the lane constraints associated with the selected carrier, tariff, and service combination.
• When you access this page from the navigation pad, the list can display lane constraints defined for all carriers and tariff services.

Properties

This page allows you to define new lane constraints or update existing ones. See "Lane Constraint Fields".

Notes: Lanes defined for lane constraints do not have to correspond to the lanes used by the routing process. When multiple lane constraints are applicable for a given load, Optimizer can consider incrementing the count for each lane constraint.

For Example, if lane constraints are defined for Ohio to California and Ohio to Western USA, a load moving from Cleveland, Ohio to Los Angeles, California would qualify for both lanes and would therefore be included in the actual count applicable for each of the lane constraints. This differs from the process used by routing which identifies the most geographically precise lane and then use attributes for that lane when enforcing routing restrictions and performing rating.

Additional operations

• Activate: Considers the lane constraint for the optimization and route, rate and schedule processes.
• Deactivate: Excludes the lane constraint for the optimization and route, rate and schedule processes.