A container leaves the port, waits on the yard, goes to the receiver and comes back empty, often on different days and sometimes behind different drivers. One load with one driver and one hours box cannot describe that. Legs can: each leg names who drove it, when, for how long, and optionally what it pays.
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Open the load and add a leg
On the load page, the Legs card. Add leg chains from where the previous leg finished. Pick the driver, the type (Port to yard, Yard to receiver, free text is fine), and the hours, or a flat rate from the rate sheet.
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Set Started and Ended
The leg's own time decides which pay week it lands in, not the load's delivery date. A split move is two drivers in two different weeks, and only the leg's clock can place each half. A leg with no time pays in the week the load delivers.
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Flat rate or hours, never both
A leg with a rate from the sheet pays that amount and its hours are informational. A leg without one pays by hours for an hourly driver. The card totals both so you can see what the day pays.
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Save
Legs are saved as a set. Once a leg is on a settlement it locks and shows a padlock; the rest of the load's legs stay editable.
Warnings the card shows, and what they mean
- Dated outside the load's pickup and delivery: the leg starts before the scheduled pickup or ends after the scheduled delivery. Fine if the move really happened then (an empty returned days later). If the date is a slip of the month or year, fix it before saving, because it moves the driver's money to another week, possibly one that is already approved.
- No driver on this leg: payroll finds legs by driver, so a leg with hours or a rate and nobody assigned pays nobody.
- Legs total differs from the load's hours: once legs exist they are what payroll pays; the single figure on the load is the older flattened guess.
The rate sheet
Settings › Accounting › Payroll › Driver Pay holds your named moves and what each pays, for example Bayport/BCT $70 or Freeport DelMonte DC $130. Dispatch picks the move by name; the server copies the amount onto the leg at that moment, so a rate change next month never reprices last week. A move that is not on the sheet is refused rather than saved at $0.
A driver who returned an empty on someone else's load is paid for that leg on their own settlement, with the load number on the line. The load itself stays with the driver who ran it.
Do not key a leg as a Bonus on the settlement. It loses the link to the load, pays nothing from the sheet, and can be paid again when someone later keys the leg properly. The settlement warns when an adjustment names a load it already pays.