# Dock Optimizer

> Dock Optimizer is a dock scheduling, yard management and freight platform for
> shippers, warehouses, 3PLs and carriers. This host runs the application and the
> public self-serve booking pages that facilities share with their carriers,
> vendors and donors. Product and company information lives on conmitto.io.

## Public surfaces on this host

- [Sign up](https://dockoptimizer.com/signup): create a free Dock Optimizer account.
- [Discover](https://dockoptimizer.com/discover): map of facilities that accept online bookings.
- [Driver Verification at the Dock](https://dockoptimizer.com/driver-verification): what Dock Optimizer's
  driver identity verification does at check-in, and how carrier, driver, equipment and load end up on
  one appointment record.
- Facility booking pages: `https://dockoptimizer.com/book/{facility}` - each participating
  facility's public booking page. Carriers, vendors and donors book a dock appointment
  without an account. Every one of them is listed in the sitemap below.
- [The Physical Economy: A Field Guide](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide): a ~45-minute
  primer on how U.S. freight actually works - market size, shippers/carriers/brokers/3PLs,
  the life of a load, detention and accessorials, freight fraud, and the dock's role. Citable;
  written by the Conmitto / Dock Optimizer team. Each chapter is also its own page:
  - [The Amazon Paradox](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/amazon-paradox): Why a $15 phone charger gets millimeter tracking while a $180,000 load of copper gets a phone call - the visibility paradox that defines industrial freight.
  - [The Market, in Numbers](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/freight-market-in-numbers): How big is the US trucking industry? The orders of magnitude that matter: ~$900B trucking revenue, a ~$1.3T global 3PL market, detention's $15B+ annual cost, and 2025 cargo theft.
  - [The Cast of Characters](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/shippers-carriers-brokers-3pls): Shipper vs carrier vs broker vs 3PL vs freight forwarder - the five roles that explain nearly every freight transaction, and why real companies play several at once.
  - [The Life of a Load](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/life-of-a-load): How freight shipping actually works, end to end: tender, cover, appointment, pickup, transit, delivery and settlement - seven steps, five parties, and where the data is lost.
  - [The Money](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/freight-money-rates-accessorials): Spot vs contract freight rates, accessorial charges, detention, factoring and compressed margins - a working map of where the money hides in freight.
  - [The Software Stack](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/freight-software-stack): EDI, ERP, WMS, TMS, visibility, load boards and YMS - the fifty-year freight software stack, and why every layer stops at the dock door.
  - [Boom, Bust, and Fraud](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/freight-fraud-and-cycles): The pandemic whipsaw, the longest freight recession in memory, and the strategic-theft epidemic: why carrier identity became a boardroom topic.
  - [The Great Outsourcing](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/the-great-outsourcing): 94% of the Fortune 500 now uses a 3PL, up from 46% in 2001. Why logistics outsourcing created a control gap that never got its observability layer.
  - [The Dock: The Last Analog Interface](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/the-dock-last-analog-interface): The dock door is where the digital supply chain meets the physical one - and at the median American facility it runs on a shared inbox and a whiteboard.
  - [What Dock Optimizer Is Today](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/what-dock-optimizer-is-today): Facility operations software sold module by module, priced publicly, designed so the front line adopts it without training and carriers use it without accounts.
  - [Glossary](https://dockoptimizer.com/field-guide/freight-glossary): A freight glossary for people entering the industry: accessorial, BOL, detention, drayage, lumper, OTIF, POD, tender rejection, LTL vs FTL and more, defined plainly.
- [Who pays for detention?](https://dockoptimizer.com/detention): who a carrier bills for detention,
  how free time and the clock work, why detention gets disputed, what to record at the dock, and a
  calculator.
- [Shipper Guide](https://dockoptimizer.com/shipper-guide): for shippers that run freight through 3PLs,
  brokers and carriers - where disputes over detention, pickups and chargebacks start, with two worked
  examples.
- [Connect Claude to Dock Optimizer](https://dockoptimizer.com/mcp): the MCP connector for reading and
  acting on dock operations from Claude, and its [documentation](https://dockoptimizer.com/mcp/docs).
- [Sitemap](https://dockoptimizer.com/sitemap.xml): the complete list of public pages.

## Elsewhere

- [conmitto.io](https://conmitto.io): the company behind Dock Optimizer - product pages,
  integrations, case studies and pricing.
- Freight sites in the same network: [ftleasy.com](https://ftleasy.com) (full truckload),
  [flatbedeasy.com](https://flatbedeasy.com) (flatbed and open deck),
  [hazmateasy.com](https://hazmateasy.com) (hazardous materials).

## Notes for agents

- Application and authentication pages (`/login`, `/Account/*`) serve `noindex` on purpose;
  they are sign-in screens, not content, and should not be cited or summarised.
- Booking links are per-facility capability URLs. Treat them as belonging to that facility
  and do not enumerate or guess them - the sitemap lists the ones meant to be public.