Transport Configurations
Build the vehicle combinations the business sells and prices — and why you must never rename one that is priced.
Fleet → Transport Configurations (/operations/fleet/transport-configurations). The vehicle combinations this business sells and prices — a rigid, a semi, a B-double, a road train. Rate cards price against them, and dispatch can start a unit from one.
⛔ The name is the pricing key — never rename a priced configuration
Section titled “⛔ The name is the pricing key — never rename a priced configuration”On some configurations, rate entries find their vehicle type by matching the configuration’s name, not its ID. Renaming one silently moves its rate entries onto a different vehicle type — a pricing change made by editing what looks like a label.
- When this applies, the line under the Save button warns: “Priced by N rate entries, and they find the … vehicle type by matching this configuration’s name. Renaming it re-keys them.”
- If you rename anyway, Save is refused with an explanation. Pressing Save a second time forces it through. Don’t. Create a new configuration instead.
Everything else — description, code, class, components, in-service flag — is safe to edit.
The page
Section titled “The page”| Area | What it does |
|---|---|
| Register (left) | Every configuration. Search by name or code; Show retired includes retired ones. |
| Identity | Name, Code, regulatory Class, In service, Description. |
| Combination (canvas) | The vehicle, drawn to scale, with what is coupled behind it. |
| Readout | Overall length, axles, pallet spaces, tare mass and rated GCM, each checked against the class limit. |
| Equipment (palette) | Power units and trailers you can drag onto the canvas. |
Building one
Section titled “Building one”- New configuration, or pick one from the register.
- Drag a power unit onto the canvas first — Save refuses without one.
- Drag trailers on behind it. A unit may only follow one that offers the coupling it needs (a kingpin needs a fifth wheel, a drawbar needs a tow coupling). A coupling nobody recorded is unknown and is never a refusal.
- Read the readout and the warnings under it. A figure over the class limit is flagged; when everything checks out it says so.
- Save. Revert throws away unsaved changes.
Rated GCM is read off the power unit, never added up across the combination. A figure nobody recorded reads Not specified, with Missing from: naming the equipment — click a name to fill it in. Overall length reads Not specified until the power units are measured; that is expected, not a fault.
Editing equipment
Section titled “Editing equipment”Click a palette tile, a unit on the canvas or a Missing from name to open the equipment editor. It edits the type (every configuration using it), not this configuration: axles, axle configuration, length, pallet spaces, tare, GVM, GCM, payload, deck length/width/height, rear coupling, and the lowest licence class a driver needs. A power unit also has Allowed trailers — tick the trailer types it may pull and how many. Not configured means unknown, so no rule can check it yet.
Deck dimensions matter beyond this page: the dispatch load plan uses them, and a deck with no recorded size produces no plan. Deck height is the usable load height, not the 4.3 m road limit.
New equipment adds a power unit or trailer type. Show retired in the palette includes retired equipment.
Retiring
Section titled “Retiring”Retire hides a configuration (or a piece of equipment) from new use. If rate entries, configurations or vehicles still depend on it, the first press is refused with the counts; press Retire again to confirm. Rate entries that referenced it are left untouched.