Getting paid for waiting.
When you pull into a shipper or receiver, the app starts a timer automatically. It quietly records exactly when you arrived and when you left, with proof. If they keep you waiting for hours, you tap one button and it hands you a complete evidence file to claim your detention money — no arguing, no "prove it."
How TruckHook proves your detention
What detention is
When you drop off or pick up a load, you usually get a free window — often about two hours — where waiting is expected and unpaid. Anything past that is detention, and you're owed for it, often €30-60 an hour. The problem isn't the rule. It's that you can almost never prove how long you really waited — so you eat the loss.
Why you never get paid for it
To claim detention you have to prove exactly when you arrived and when you were released. A scribbled note, a fuzzy memory, a delivery slip that only records departure — none of it holds up when the warehouse disputes it and your own company doesn't want to rock the boat. No proof, no payment.
How TruckHook proves your detention
It starts on its own. When you reach the facility, TruckHook detects you've arrived and starts the clock automatically — at your real arrival moment, not whatever you remember later.
It records the truth, not your memory. Arrival and departure are logged with time and location the moment they happen.
It can't be quietly changed. The record is written once and locked — append-only, with the time set by our servers, not your phone. Nobody can edit "arrived 09:15" into something else after the fact. Any tampering is detectable. That's what makes it stand up.
One tap, and you've got your case. When the wait goes past the free window, TruckHook works out exactly what you're owed and gives you a clean evidence pack — arrival, departure, duration, location, the math — ready to hand over.
The honest part
TruckHook builds the proof; it doesn't write the cheque. Whether you collect still depends on your contract and your company making the claim. But it ends the one excuse that kills most claims — "you can't prove it." Now you can.