Combined Loads

This guide is aimed at transporters - it doesn't have any bearing on tyre retailers, collection sites, or similar.

Combined loads are collections of jobs that are dropped off together. They share a combined weight, driver, and affect each other's payments. Combined loads are not the same as runsheets, but they will often contain the same jobs.

A combined load is created when a driver drops off multiple jobs simultaneously:

This will allow the driver to add one weight proof to these jobs, and they will be considered a combined load.

The effect of combined loads

Combined loads are great because they allow multiple jobs to be weighed and verified together, rather than one by one. However, there are some things that you need to watch out for:

• Jobs can only be dropped off together if they have the same delivery address set. The easiest way to do this is with runsheets, but drivers can also set the delivery location for a job that doesn't have one already on their phone. 
• It is essential that you select all the jobs that you are dropping off in the driver's site. If you forget to include one or more jobs in the combined drop off, this could affect your payment. Contact Tyrewise immediately if you believe that you may have forgotten to include a job in a combined load.
• When the driver enters the weight for the combined load, just enter the weights as if they were one load - don't try and divide the weight out across the jobs. The system will calculate the divided weight for you.
• Weight is automatically apportioned across the multiple jobs in a combined load. Because of this, it is important to get an accurate count of tyres when collecting the individual jobs.
• Because these jobs are intrinsically linked, if one of the jobs is held for checking, all the jobs will be held for manual checking by Tyrewise. For example, if pickup is disputed for one of the jobs, they will all be check before payment.

Weight apportioning

Because jobs in combined loads are weighed together there isn't a weight for each individual job. To create a weight for each individual job, an apportion weight is calculated.

This is done by comparing estimated weights to the actual weight of the combined load. The weights of each job are adjusted by the same percentage as the difference between the total estimated weight and the total actual weight.

In other words, if the total weight of a combined load is 5% higher that the estimated weight, each job will have its weight increased by 5%. This can be shown as:

The key thing here is that the paid weight will match the actual weight collected, not the estimated weight.