For carriersShipping January 2027
Forward the rate confirmation to one Novari address and say when you want to deliver. Novari works out who schedules at that facility, books the slot in your name, and sends back a load cleared for delivery at a stated time. No portal to register for, no process to learn, no hold music.
What this is for
You can plan the route, the driver, and the hours. What decides whether the load delivers on time is a process that belongs to the receiver: their scheduling window, their portal or their phone, how much notice they want, and the one person who actually books it. Every facility does it differently and none of them published it anywhere, so a dispatcher learns each one the expensive way, one call at a time.
None of that is the facility's doing. A receiving manager running two doors and a crew has no reason to publish a scheduling process for the eleven carriers who show up once a year, and the ones who do publish it are already the easy ones. The cost lands on whoever is holding the phone, which is you.
Here is the size of it. A familiar facility takes five to ten minutes to schedule and a new one takes twenty to forty-five, which blends to about eighteen minutes an appointment. A truck running four and a half loads a week generates about nineteen deliveries a month, so ten trucks is roughly sixty hours a month of somebody's attention spent finding out how other companies book their docks. Those are our own working figures rather than a published benchmark, so run them against your own board.
That time is not free just because nobody invoices for it. The person spending it is the same dispatcher who would otherwise be working the board for a reload that pays, planning next week before next week plans itself, or getting a driver routed home on the day he was promised. Scheduling wins that competition every morning, because it has a deadline attached and the rest of it does not shout.
How it works
Your systems manage what happens inside your company. Counterparty Execution manages what has to happen with everyone outside it. The facility is your counterparty on this load, and Novari Clear is that job narrowed to one thing: getting the delivery appointment booked. It is one job rather than a carrier edition of everything else Novari sells, and it does not ask you to run dispatch anywhere new.
Forward the rate confirmation or the bill of lading to your Novari address and say when you want to deliver. That is the whole of what you do, and you are already doing most of it.
Novari reads the document, works out who schedules at that facility, and goes and gets the slot, through the portal, the phone tree, or the email chain, whatever that receiver actually runs.
Back comes the date, the time, and the reference the guard will ask your driver for at the gate. The load is cleared for delivery Tuesday at 0800, and you never learned how that facility schedules.
What it costs
Carriers are right to be suspicious of a price you have to ask for, so here it is. This is the card Novari Clear launches on in January, and founding pricing on the early-access list holds it for a defined window past that.
$50/ month
Per carrier
Covers the account itself: your Novari address, your authorization on file, and the facility records Novari builds and keeps current for you. Appointments are priced on their own, so you pay for the ones you actually run.
$5.00
Facility you have used before
Any facility Novari has already booked for you. The second delivery there costs what the twentieth costs.
+$10
Once per facility
The first booking is the expensive one: finding who schedules, getting you onto their approved list, mapping your references. You pay for that once and never again.
Free
Appointment and setup
A receiver running Novari Dock costs you nothing to book. As more of them do, more of your card goes to zero.
Volume
$5.00
appointments a month
$4.25
appointments a month
$3.50
appointments a month
$3.00
appointments a month
Handing it over
That is the real question here, and it deserves an answer you can hold on to. A booking that goes wrong costs you the reset, the detention you will chase and not collect, and standing with the broker who gave you the load. So these three commitments exist before you ever send us an appointment.
Every appointment goes in under your name and your MC number, on a one-page authorization you sign at signup, read in under a minute, and revoke whenever you want. Novari never books a slot as itself.
Thirty minutes on a facility we know, forty-five on one we do not. Past that you get the contact and the process we found so far, and you decide what happens next. Your driver never sits waiting on us to keep looking.
Novari also runs appointments for shippers and for facilities. No slot preference for them at a Novari Dock facility, and no slot information moving between the two sides. The policy is published where you can read it before you sign anything.
Whether it fits you
A truck running two loads a week generates about nine appointments a month. The same truck at seven loads generates thirty. Same asset, three and a half times the scheduling, which is why a thirty-truck long-haul fleet has a mild version of this and a ten-truck regional fleet has an acute one. Regional and short-haul dry van, reefer, and building-materials delivery is where this lands hardest, and so is anyone with real spot exposure, since a load off the board is usually a facility you have never delivered to.
At one truck we would rather be straight with you. Twenty appointments a month runs $150 in subscription and appointments, call it $190 once a couple of new facilities are in there, and if you book those yourself in the evening you are being asked to spend cash to buy back hours you already treat as free. Two arguments still hold at that size. A blown appointment costs a rescheduled delivery and often a whole day. And there are loads you turn down right now because the receiver is known to be difficult to schedule, which is the stronger of the two, because it is about revenue.
Between ten and thirty trucks the argument stops needing to be made. Fifteen trucks at our blended numbers is roughly 293 appointments and 88 hours a month, which is most of a dispatcher's week spent learning other companies' scheduling processes. Handed back, that time goes where it earns: covering the next ten trucks off the same desk, working the board for reloads that pay, keeping drivers on a schedule that gets them home when it said it would. The fleets this fits are the ones adding trucks faster than they want to add desks.
American Trucking Associations, June 2025, citing US Department of Transportation data.
Early access
You get Novari Clear ahead of the general release, in the order people joined the list.
The card above, held for a defined window after the January release. We publish the window before you have to decide anything.
Thirty minutes on which receivers give you the most trouble, how many trucks you run, and how much of your freight comes off a board. That is how the January release gets prioritized.