One vocabulary for charges
Every charge line is one of a fixed set of kinds — line-haul, fuel surcharge, detention, layover, TONU, lumper, tarp, liftgate and more — so the same thing is not billed three different ways.
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Accessorial
An accessorial is any charge on a load beyond the line-haul rate — detention, layover, a lumper fee, tarping, a liftgate, an extra stop and similar — billed for work or delay outside the basic move.
Also called: accessorial charge, accessorials, extras
- Who deals with it
- Incurred on the road, reported to dispatch, billed by accounting.
- When it shows up
- During the move — and again at invoicing, when someone has to remember it.
- What usually goes wrong
- It never reaches the invoice, or reaches it without the receipt or timestamp that proves it.
Accessorial, explained
The line-haul rate covers getting freight from A to B. Everything else that happened on the way is an accessorial: the hours waiting at the dock, the lumper who unloaded it, the extra stop, the tarp. Most are agreed in advance — on a rate confirmation, a rate sheet or a contract — and some only become due if something happens.
Individually they are small, which is exactly why they leak. One missed accessorial is not worth chasing; a missed accessorial on every third load across a year is a real share of margin that never reached an invoice. They are lost at the boundary between the person who experienced the charge — usually the driver — and the person raising the bill, who was not there.
How Lanexa handles it
This lives mainly in Billing, where 180 catalogued capabilities are live. Each item says which plan it is on.
Agreed on the quote, carried to the invoice
Accessorials on an accepted quote — including the optional ones your customer ticked — are carried onto the load as confirmed charges and flow onto the invoice.
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Never billed twice
Once a confirmed charge is invoiced it is marked invoiced, so re-issuing an invoice after a void cannot bill it again.
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Proof on the radar
A billed detention or lumper charge with no evidence on file is flagged on the paperwork radar, before the customer asks for it.
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Questions about Accessorial
What is an accessorial charge?
An accessorial is any charge on a load beyond the line-haul rate — detention, layover, a lumper fee, tarping, a liftgate, an extra stop and similar — billed for work or delay outside the basic move.
What are common accessorial charges in trucking?
Detention, layover, lumper fees, TONU, extra stops, tarping, liftgate and inside delivery are among the most common.
Fuel surcharge usually appears alongside them on the invoice.
Is fuel surcharge an accessorial?
It usually appears with the accessorials on an invoice, but it works differently: it moves with the price of diesel rather than being triggered by something that happened on the load.
How does Lanexa stop accessorials being missed?
Charges agreed on a quote are carried onto the load, detention is suggested from recorded stop times against each customer's free hours and rate, and confirmed charges flow onto the invoice and are marked invoiced so they cannot be billed twice.