Consignment notes
What is a CMR consignment note?
The transport document for international road freight: what it contains, who fills in what, and why box 18 matters more than the rest.
Knowledge base
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Consignment notes
The digital consignment note: what e-CMR does and does not solve
Where the electronic consignment note applies, what stays the same legally, and which part of the paperwork genuinely goes away.
Planning
Transport planning: keeping control of the day
Why planning falls apart as volume grows, which constraints really count, and when planning by hand beats automation.
Glossary
Logistics glossary: the terms explained
The terms that come up daily in transport and logistics, explained in plain language and grouped by subject.
Planning
Dock planning: stopping the queue at the door
How dock slots work, why waiting time builds up, and what helps without building more doors.
What this knowledge base covers
Plain explanations of the documents and processes transport planners work with every day, written from twenty years of watching them used in the office and in the cab.
Most of what slows a transport office down is not the driving. It is a consignment note that arrives three days late, a reservation nobody wrote down, or a question about which document is actually required on a given lane.
These articles explain those things in plain terms: what a document is for, who is responsible for which part of it, and what changes when the paper becomes digital. They are written for planners and transport operators, not for lawyers, so where a question is genuinely a legal one we say so rather than guess.
Everything here comes out of building software for Dutch road transport since the early 2000s, mostly around the flower and vegetable auctions at Aalsmeer, Naaldwijk and Rijnsburg, where the margin for error on a delivery window is measured in minutes.
The list above runs from the consignment note itself through to the planning that decides which lorry collects it. If you want a definition rather than an explanation, the glossary covers the terms that come up most often in Dutch road freight, a sentence or two each.
Where an article describes something Retrack TMS does differently, it says so and links to the page that explains it. None of it requires our software to be useful: the rules about consignment notes apply whoever you buy your system from.