Railcar Track & Trace
Track & Trace follows every railcar from release at origin to placement at your facility: Class I trace data, ETAs, and status in one live record. BOLs, waybills, and scale tickets attach to each car. When a demurrage bill or delivery dispute lands, the timeline settles it.
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Live view: every car on the network with its origin, destination, current location, and ETA. Click a car to follow it.
From release at origin to the day the car leaves your facility: location, contents, owner, paperwork, and the clock.
Every car from release at origin to placement at your facility: customer, product, status, ETA, arrival, and departure. Updated as it happens, not at end of shift.
See which spots are occupied, which cars are ready to work, and which are waiting on release across every track in the yard.
Every BOL and waybill attaches to the right car. Extraction pulls car numbers, products, weights, and customers, so each delivery has proof.
Truck weights and scale tickets connect straight to inventory movements and outbound shipments. No rekeying.
Dwell clocks, release dates, and billable events tracked per car as they happen. Charges you're owed get billed, and charges you're not get disputed with a timestamped record.
Know whose material is in every car and pile. Each customer gets a real-time view of their own cars and documents, so they stop calling for updates.
Most railcar software is built for fleet owners managing cars across the national network: a different job. Here’s the honest split:
| What you need | Rebulk (terminal) | Fleet TMS |
|---|---|---|
| Track cars by track and spot inside one facility | ||
| Process inbound BOLs and waybills automatically | ||
| Connect truck scale tickets to railcar inventory | ||
| Bill storage days and demurrage per customer | ||
| Report to the customers whose material you handle | ||
| Manage a leased fleet across the national network | ||
| Railcar maintenance and repair billing |
Already running a fleet TMS? Rebulk complements it: your shippers keep their system, your terminal finally gets one. See the full Transload Operating System for the complete workflow, or Switch Planning if you switch your own yard.
Comparing tools? See how Rebulk stacks up as a Steelroads alternative and a RAILTRAC alternative.
Rebulk runs a per-car clock from arrival to release, tied to the customer and the agreed storage terms, so every day a car sits on your track is on the record as it happens. Month-end billing is a report you run, not a reconstruction from switch lists.
Curious what dwell is costing you today? Try the free rail demurrage calculator. Loading cars as well? Read our guide to rail scale alternatives for preventing overloads.
Customer Story
“Rebulk has made it easier for us to manage the operation. We have better visibility, less manual tracking, and a faster way to connect tracking, transloading, and billing.”
Dave Guffey, Sales – Railcar, Venezia Transport
Read the Venezia Transport storyIt follows every railcar from release at origin to placement at your facility: Class I trace events, ETAs, status, contents, and owner. Bills of lading, waybills, and scale tickets attach to each car, so deliveries are verified and disputes settled from one live record.
Tracking is the foundation, not the whole product. Each car's record also holds what's in it, who owns it, which documents belong to it, and how long it's been sitting: that's what turns visibility into billed storage, captured demurrage, and fewer disputes.
A rail TMS is built for shippers and fleet owners managing cars across the national network: routing, rates, and fleet maintenance. Rebulk covers the trip to your gate and what happens inside it: trace and ETAs in transit, then spots, unloading, inventory ownership, storage days, and customer billing on site. Facilities that run on a fleet TMS end up back in spreadsheets for those jobs.
Yes. Rebulk tracks dwell time, status, and release dates per car and flags billable demurrage and storage events as they accrue.
From the paperwork you already receive: upload or email inbound BOLs and waybills, and Rebulk's AI extraction creates or updates the car record: car number, product, weight, customer. Manual add or edit takes seconds.
Yes. Volumetric load measurement captures material volume during loading and converts through density to an estimated weight, so cars fill to their limit without crossing it. No track scale required. It's a planning estimate, not a certified weight.
Yes. Any operation that receives, works, and releases cars (transload terminals, rail-served warehouses, team tracks, or plant sidings) uses the same Rebulk tracking, document, and billing workflow.
Bring a recent demurrage bill and a stack of BOLs to the demo. We’ll show you the car-by-car timeline that settles both, set up around your yard, your customers, and your billing terms.
