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Case Study

Fretum Freight TMS

A Transportation Management System for Fretum Freight — dispatch routing, load tracking, driver management, and automated logistics, consolidated onto a centralized cloud architecture.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSGCPNode.jsLogistics
Production
Status
GCP
Platform

The Problem

Fretum Freight ran their logistics on fragmented, manual workflows — dispatch, load tracking, and driver coordination scattered across disconnected tools and inboxes. Loads were hard to follow end-to-end, driver status lived in someone's head, and nothing scaled when shipment volume grew.

They needed a single, centralized system that handled the full lifecycle of a freight operation in one place.

Architecture

A centralized TMS on GCP. A Next.js + TypeScript frontend talks to a Node.js backend; dispatch routing, load tracking, and driver management all share one data model so every role sees the same source of truth.

Frontend
Next.js + TypeScriptTailwind CSSDispatch dashboard
Backend
Node.js APIShared data modelAutomated logistics ops
Operations
Dispatch routingLoad trackingDriver management
Cloud
GCP hostingCentralized cloud architecture

Approach

  • Built a comprehensive TMS covering the freight lifecycle end-to-end — dispatch routing, load tracking, driver management, and automated logistics operations in a single application.
  • Transitioned operations off fragmented tools onto a centralized cloud architecture, so dispatchers, drivers, and operators all work from one shared source of truth.
  • Implemented the platform with Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, a Node.js backend, and Tailwind CSS for the UI — deployed on GCP for a managed, scalable hosting surface.
  • Automated logistics operations that were previously manual, reducing hand-offs and the errors that come with them.

Outcomes

Fretum Freight moved from scattered, manual workflows to a single production TMS running on GCP. Dispatch routing, load tracking, and driver management now live in one place, with automated operations handling the repetitive work — a centralized cloud architecture that scales with shipment volume instead of breaking under it.

Stack
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSNode.jsGCP
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