AcuTransportation is a set of modules built natively on Acumatica Cloud ERP for trucking companies: Freight Billing, Maintenance & Repair, Dispatch and Fuel. One truck file, one customer list, one general ledger, no interface to babysit.
When the TMS and the accounting system are one system, a load is entered once and flows from the order to the invoice to the general ledger. Customers are keyed once. Invoices post on time and to the right accounts. The shop uses the same inventory the controller reconciles, and every report reads the same numbers. There is no interface to babysit and no month-end reconciliation between two databases.
AcuTransportation is built with Acumatica's own customisation framework, so its screens, tables and workflows are Acumatica screens, tables and workflows. The truck a dispatcher assigns is the truck the shop services and the truck whose cost the controller reports on. Parts come from Acumatica inventory. Outside repairs become Acumatica payables. Invoices and settlements land in Acumatica receivables and payables. There is no second system.
Fleets lose trucks to breakdowns that a PM would have caught, and lose money to repairs nobody can trace to a unit. Maintenance & Repair keeps the truck file, its meters and permits; tracks what is due; turns it into work orders; runs the shop; and puts the cost on the truck.
Every maintenance action can be due by miles, engine hours or time, and the first one to arrive wins. Time rules understand real calendars: "every 90 days from the last service" or "the second Tuesday every three months", and they survive a service done early or late.
Work orders are generated from what is due, raised from fault codes the trucks report, or created from an issue a driver or dispatcher writes up. If the truck already has an open order, the new work folds into it and the priority only ever goes up.
The Shop Board shows every mechanic as a row and every unscheduled job as a card. Drag a card onto a mechanic and the job is booked for its estimated hours on that mechanic's real working calendar: it carries over lunch, nights, weekends and holidays, and the board warns when a drop lands on someone without the right skill or certification.
Parts are stock items in Acumatica inventory, issued from the shop's warehouse as real inventory transactions and returned the same way. Labor comes from the time clock or is typed on the order, at each employee's cost rate. Outside repairs become Acumatica vendor bills. The order totals it all, and the cost reports put it on the truck.
Freight Billing takes a rated order and produces the customer invoice in Acumatica receivables and the driver or carrier settlement in Acumatica payables, so billing and settlements are not re-keyed into accounting after the fact.
Freight Billing and Dispatch are the newest AcuTransportation modules. Ask us where they are in their release cycle and what a first installation looks like.
Dispatch holds the order from the shipper to the consignee: the legs, the stops, the driver, the carrier and the truck, with the route map and directions at hand. It uses the same trucks as the shop and the same customers as billing, so a truck that is in for a PM is not quietly assigned a load.
Fuel is one of a fleet's largest costs, and often tracked in a spreadsheet beside the accounting system. The Fuel module keeps it with the trucks, the loads and the ledger.
Ask us where the Fuel module is in its release cycle and what a first installation looks like.
Most fleets already pay for a tracking platform. AcuTransportation reads it, so the odometer and engine hours in the maintenance schedule are the real ones. Samsara is connected today: pair each truck with its Samsara vehicle once, enter the API key in preferences, and the data flows without anyone typing odometer readings off a dashboard.
Many trucking companies also run construction jobs, haul for their own projects or keep a fabrication shop. Acumatica has industry editions for that work, and they share the same customers, vendors, inventory and general ledger as AcuTransportation.
For contractors and companies that run jobs as well as trucks.
For companies that build, fabricate or assemble what they haul.
Construction Edition and Manufacturing Edition are Acumatica products. We scope them alongside AcuTransportation in the same assessment.
Tell us how you bill, dispatch and maintain today, and we will walk you through the same work in Acumatica.