Warehouse Dock Detention Log
A facility-side log of every truck's appointment, in/out times and detention exposure — spot your slowest doors.
Times stay in your browser. Export CSV monthly and put the slowest doors on the ops review agenda — detention is a facility KPI pretending to be a freight cost.
Sources & references
- FMCSA detention research (driver delay economics)
- Warehouse appointment scheduling best practice (WERC benchmarks)
Demurrage, detention and storage tariffs are set by each carrier, terminal and contract and change frequently. The preloaded figures are editable industry-typical examples, not quotes — always verify against the current published tariff or your service contract before paying or disputing an invoice.
Detention invoices are a lagging indicator; the dock log is the leading one. This tool tracks every truck against its appointment — arrival, departure, door, hours on site and the detention dollars the visit exposed you to — and summarises the facility's real turnaround performance above the table.
About Warehouse Dock Detention Log
Run it from the shipping office or guard shack: log trucks as they check in and out. The summary computes average hours on site, the count of 2-hour-plus visits (the free-time breach line) and total detention exposure. A month of data usually shows the pattern everyone suspected: it's not 'carriers complaining', it's two specific doors and one shift. Facilities that measure turnaround cut detention without negotiating a single rate — slow doors get staffing, appointment density gets matched to labor, and the worst lanes get drop trailers. The CSV export drops into any BI tool, but honestly the four summary numbers on a Friday are what change behaviour.
How to use Warehouse Dock Detention Log
- 1Fill in the form and add your first record — everything persists locally in your browser.
- 2Watch the summary strip recompute totals and averages as records accumulate.
- 3Sort out stale entries with one-click delete; the data survives page reloads.
- 4Export the CSV any time for reporting or to move the log into a spreadsheet.
Why use Warehouse Dock Detention Log?
- ✓Purpose-built fields for this exact workflow — no spreadsheet setup
- ✓Live summary statistics computed from your records
- ✓One-click CSV export for reporting
- ✓Everything stays on your device — nothing is uploaded
Frequently asked questions
Why should the warehouse log detention — isn't that the carrier's job?+
Carriers log it to bill you; you log it to fix it. The carrier's record arrives as an invoice weeks later, door unknown, cause unknown. Your own log ties every slow visit to a door, a shift and a reason while memories are fresh — the difference between paying detention and engineering it away.
What counts as the start time — appointment or arrival?+
Free time conventionally runs from the scheduled appointment (or from arrival for FCFS freight). Log both: appointment-vs-arrival shows carrier punctuality; arrival-vs-departure shows your dock speed. The two gaps have different owners, and detention disputes are mostly arguments about which gap caused the delay.
What's a good average truck turnaround?+
Under 90 minutes for live loads is solid for most dry warehouses; high-velocity DCs run under an hour. The 2-hours-plus count in the summary matters more than the average — every entry there is a probable detention invoice and a driver who'll deprioritise your facility next time dispatch offers options.
Does this data help fight unfair detention invoices?+
Directly: an invoice claiming five hours at your dock meets your log showing 2:10 gate-to-gate at door D-14 — with the guard's timestamps. Facilities without their own records pay whatever the carrier's ELD says; facilities with logs split disputes on evidence.
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