VBS — Truck Appointment System
The AI-powered Vehicle Booking System that fluidifies your gates and your yard: drivers book a slot, quotas keep every hour balanced, and the gate reads the appointment automatically. One app, the whole truck-to-crane chain.
Trusted to plug into the terminal stack you already run
DMS VBS sits between your operating systems and the driver. It reads what your terminal already produces, and gives every actor a single place to book, enforce and track an appointment.
Your TOS
OCR & the gate
The driver app
Your ERP & billing
One appointment, every actor better off
The terminal stops flooding at peak hours and the trucker stops waiting. The same booking serves both.
Quota per slot, per move
Rules that run themselves
Conflict detector
No more gate queues
Multi-terminal in one view
Fair access for carriers
What the app looks like in daily operations
Dashboards your ops team actually uses: book a slot, set a quota template, catch a conflict, follow the gate.
AI is not magic — it is live data, applied with common-sense rules
Four building blocks turn the data your terminal already produces into appointments drivers can trust.
From your live data to a slot a driver can trust
Automatic quota of appointments per slot
The yard stays balanced without anyone editing a spreadsheet at night. The model reads your own history and your live availabilities, then proposes a quota the ops team can accept in one click.
Resource planner across the whole day
No surprise peaks. The planner shows the pressure building and lets you shift the quota or the priorities before the gate feels it.
Truck turn-time prediction
Promise what you can show. The prediction is built from the same live data the gate sees, so the number a driver gets is the number the terminal can hold.
Gate-in matched to the appointment
A clean gate-in. A confirmed appointment carries a QR code; the gate matches it automatically and shows the reason whenever something does not line up.
What a tuned appointment system moves
Representative orders of magnitude for a terminal running DMS VBS end to end.
lower peak-hour yard congestion
rules enforced automatically
hours of manual planning saved per day
dashboard across every terminal a carrier uses
Results your gate and your yard can feel
Less waiting for the driver, fewer peaks for the terminal, a booking everyone can rely on.
Shorter turn-time
Flatter peaks
One source of truth
Fewer idling trucks is less carbon
Every truck that waits at a closed gate burns fuel for nothing. By smoothing arrivals and cutting queue time, DMS VBS turns appointment discipline into a measurable drop in idling emissions — a clean side-effect of a well-run gate.
Less idling at the gate
less idling time at the gate
appointment rules cutting empty runs
How the appointment flows, from quota to crane
Five steps turn a quota rule into a truck on the right slot — no black box, just live data applied in order.
Define the quota
Ops set moves-per-slot, priorities and waiting-list rules once, as a reusable template.
DMS enforces it
Every booking request is checked against the live quota before it is ever accepted.
The AI balances
Forecasts of availability and turn-time keep each hour balanced as the day moves.
The driver books
A trucker books the right slot across every terminal they use, from one place.
The gate reads it
A confirmed appointment carries a QR code the gate matches automatically for a clean gate-in.
From a manual gate to an AI-run appointment system
The same gate, three ways to run it. DMS VBS covers the whole chain — from the quota rule to the crane.
What you get
Appointment dashboard
A single board of the next actions to take, with history.
Quota templates
Reusable rules by day, hour, priority and move type.
AI quota & turn-time prediction
Forecasts that keep each hour balanced automatically.
Conflict detector
Over-booked or overlapping slots flagged with the reason.
Multi-terminal, one booking
Book once across every terminal a carrier uses.
QR gate-in & OCR match
Confirmed appointment read automatically at the gate.
Decarbonation reporting
Idling and queue-time turned into a measurable metric.
Everything the appointment touches, covered
VBS is not one screen — it is the set of services that keep a booking honest from reservation to crane.
Waiting list & fair access
A roadmap you can start on one gate
You do not swap your whole terminal overnight. VBS plugs in on one gate, proves itself, then scales.
Connect
DMS connectors read your terminal's live availabilities and moves.
Pilot
Run quotas on one terminal and one gate, side by side with today's flow.
Scale
Roll the same rules across every terminal and carrier in one dashboard.
Automate
Hand the hourly balancing to the AI and keep ops on the exceptions.
Speaks the language of your gate
The driver-facing and ops-facing screens run in the language your terminal operates in, so nothing is lost at the gate.
English
Français
Español
More on request
A word from the people behind the platform
One AI platform for the whole port city: setup offered, open code, and a booking every actor can trust from day one.
“One AI platform for the whole port city: setup offered, open code, and a subscription from day one.”
Olivier Raveau · Co-Founder & CTO, DMSLOG.Ai · About us
Licensing that follows your terminal, not a sticker price
VBS is licensed on the scope you actually run — the gates, the terminals and the AI blocks you switch on. Tell us your footprint and we size it on your own numbers. No surprises, open code, a plan from day one.
Start on one gate
Add the AI blocks
Scale across terminals
Straight answers before you book a call
The questions terminals ask us first — answered directly, then linked to the app that goes deeper.
In parallel, with zero downtime. DMS runs beside your current system on one gate first, mirrors the bookings, then takes over once ops are comfortable. Nothing is turned off until the new flow is proven.
Yes. DMS connects to your terminal operating system through its connectors and reads what it already produces. See the Terminal Operating Systems app.
Yes. Templates set volume and priority per day and per hour, and apply automatically — no spreadsheet, no night shift.
It is read automatically. A confirmed appointment carries a QR code; OCR matches the plate and container and opens the lane, showing the reason whenever something does not line up. See VBS Rating.
Yes. One dashboard combines the quotas of every terminal a carrier uses, so a driver books once. See VBS Multi-Terminals.
Stop the yard from flooding — start on one gate
Tell us your terminals and your peak hours. We show you the quota rules running on your own numbers, side by side with how your gate runs today.