Dock door scheduling capacity
Doors needed for the day and at the peak, and how full your dock schedule is.
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Comes with the warehouse and forklift crew plan: every tool for the role, from $10.20 a month at the launch price.
- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full dock schedule you can print or save to My work
- 3 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: dock schedule
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
All 40 trucks served; longest average wait 16 min; detention $0.00 a day
- Door-minutes needed
- 3,600 min
- Daily capacity
- 85 trucks at 8 doors
- Utilization today
- 47%
- Doors needed (average)
- 5
- Doors needed at the peak
- 6
Appointment template (trucks per hour)
- Book no more than
- 4 appointments an hour across 8 doors (85% of 5.3)
- 06:00
- book 2; doors take 5.3; wait under a minute
- 07:00 (peak)
- book 4; doors take 5.3; wait about 16 min
- 08:00 (peak)
- book 4; doors take 5.3; wait about 16 min
- 09:00 (peak)
- book 4; doors take 5.3; wait about 16 min
- 10:00 (peak)
- book 4; doors take 5.3; wait about 16 min
and 11 more lines
Also on the sheet
- Queue and detention · 7 lines, starting with “Longest average wait in an hour”
- Dock crew · 5 lines, starting with “Workers on the doors”
- What if · 3 lines, starting with “Spread the peak evenly”
The plain-words read of this example
8 doors take about 5.3 trucks an hour at 90 minutes a truck, so book no more than 4 an hour. With 40% of the 40 trucks in the busiest 4 hours, the average wait for a door is 7 min, and 16 min in the worst hour. That costs about $0.00 a day in detention, $0.00 a year; spreading the peak evenly brings it to $0.00 a day. Each 15 minutes of extra dwell was linked to a 6.2% higher crash rate in the federal review. The doors cope with this pattern and no truck runs past its free time.
3 cited sources
- Estimates Show Commercial Driver Detention Increases Crash Risks and Costs (report ST2018019) (US DOT Office of Inspector General, January 2018)
- New research documents substantial financial and safety impacts from truck driver detention (American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), September 2024)
- Summary of Hours of Service Regulations (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.
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