Driver pay is one of the few numbers in a trucking operation that has to be exactly right, every single time. Get it wrong and you don't just create an accounting headache — you erode the trust of the people who keep your trucks moving. That's why we treat the path from "load delivered" to "driver paid" as something that should be automatic, accurate, and effortless.
This month we shipped one of our biggest accounting updates to date: Load Payouts. It defines exactly who gets paid, and how, the moment a load is delivered and verified — and it closes two long-standing gaps that used to force our customers to step in and fix payments by hand. Here's the problem we set out to solve, and how the new workflow handles it.
How Load Payments Worked Before
When a load was delivered and verified, Beyond Transport automatically generated a payment for the driver or contractor based on their payment strategy — percentage of the load, a flat rate, pay per mile, and so on. For the common case of one load, one driver, this worked beautifully: the load closed, the payment appeared on the settlement, and the accountant moved on.
But real-world dispatching isn't always that tidy, and over time two scenarios kept surfacing where the automatic payment didn't tell the full story.
The Two Gaps We Set Out to Close
1. Loads split between two drivers
When a load was split across two drivers — each hauling a portion of the trip — the system could only generate a single payment. There was no way to divide that payment so each driver was paid for the leg they actually drove. The only workaround was for the accountant to step into the settlement and correct the amounts manually, load by load. It worked, but it was slow, easy to get wrong, and exactly the kind of repetitive fix that software should be handling.
2. Payment strategy changes mid-load
Drivers and contractors renegotiate. A driver might move from a percentage split to a flat per-mile rate, and the new terms should apply going forward. The problem: a load that was already active still needed to be paid under the terms that were in place when it was dispatched. Previously, the system applied whatever payment strategy was currently active — so a strategy change could quietly repay an in-progress load under the wrong terms, and someone had to catch it and correct it after the fact.
What's New: Load Payouts
Load Payouts reworks this from the ground up. Instead of a single payment quietly generated in the background, every load now carries a clear, editable payout definition that the load payment for the settlement is built from.
Split a load's pay across multiple drivers
When a load has multiple dispatches — because it was split between two (or more) drivers — you can now split the load payment to match. Each driver or contractor receives their own portion for the part of the load they hauled, generated automatically from their own payment strategy. No more correcting amounts inside the settlement: the split is defined once, on the load, and flows straight through to each driver's pay.
Payment terms are locked to the load
Each load now remembers the payment strategy that was active at the moment it was activated. If a driver's terms change afterward, in-progress loads are still paid under the terms they were dispatched with, while new loads pick up the new strategy. The result is pay that's always faithful to the agreement that was actually in place — without anyone having to remember to check.
A more flexible way to set and adjust payouts
We also made the payout itself far more comfortable to work with. The payout that drives the settlement is now easy to review and adjust directly, so when something about a load is unique, you can shape the payout to fit — and the load payment the system generates for the settlement reflects it exactly. Less digging, fewer manual corrections, and a clear view of who is being paid what before anything reaches a settlement.
Why This Matters
Every manual correction in accounting is a chance for an error and a few more minutes that add up across a busy week. By moving these decisions onto the load itself — split shares, locked-in terms, and an editable payout — Load Payouts removes the most common reasons an accountant had to override the system. Drivers get paid accurately for exactly the work they did, and your team spends less time reconciling and more time running the business.
We're Just Getting Started
Load Payouts is part of an ongoing push to take the friction out of the daily workflow for the carriers who rely on us. Every release, we look for the places where our customers still have to do something by hand that the software could simply get right — and we close that gap. That's how we keep moving toward our goal: making Beyond Transport the most efficient and comprehensive TMS in trucking. There's plenty more on the way.