Detention revenue recovery
Get paid for every hour your trucks wait.
detentioniq captures dwell from your ELD, builds the proof, and invoices it — so you stop writing off detention you already earned.
ATRI, September 2024: carriers invoice detention 75% of the time and get paid on 55% of those bills — about 41% of what you earn actually lands.
Detention event
Auto-captured- Facility
- Memphis DC
- Dwell over 2h
- 2h 35m
- Rate
- $63.71/hr
- Billable
- $164.58
Illustrative example. Proof attached: GPS geofence + ELD on-duty timestamps.
The problem
You're owed the money. It leaks out before you collect.
94.5% of fleets now charge a detention fee, and fewer than half of those invoices get paid. Most of it never lands — because proving dwell, after the fact, is manual and easy to dispute.
of stops involve detention. (ATRI, September 2024 — 2023 data)
of the detention you earn is what you actually capture — carriers invoice 75% of the time and collect on 55% of those. The other 59% leaks. (ATRI, September 2024)
of carriers always attempt to collect detention. The rest let it go some or all of the time. (OOIDA, 2023)
How it works
Four steps, then it runs itself.
- 1
Connect your ELD
Samsara, Motive, or your existing GPS. Facilities are geofenced automatically.
- 2
Detect the dwell
We flag any stop past your threshold — 2 hours by default, configurable per customer.
- 3
Build the proof
GPS geofence plus ELD timestamps assemble a record that holds up in a dispute.
- 4
Invoice & track
Generate the detention invoice and watch billed-vs-paid until the money lands.
What you get
Three things change.
Recover written-off revenue
Stop eating detention you never billed. Every qualifying stop becomes an invoice instead of a shrug.
Proof that survives disputes
GPS geofence and ELD on-duty timestamps, packaged per event — so 'prove it' stops killing your claims.
Know which customers cost you
Facility scorecards rank where your trucks sit longest, so you can renegotiate the worst offenders.
Built for your fleet
Made for 50–200 truck carriers.
The average detention fee runs $63.71/hr against $66.65/hr of operating cost (ATRI, September 2024) — an hour on the dock loses money even when you bill it, and loses all of it when you don't. Fleets your size have the least time to chase it manually. detentioniq works with the ELD you already run.
- Dry van
- Reefer
- Flatbed
- Specialized
See what detention is costing you.
A free teardown of your detention leakage — no pressure, no contract.