Truck Packer vs CargoWiz: The Same 3D Load Plan for $28 a Month or $879 Once
CargoWiz and Truck Packer both build 3D load plans for trucks, containers and pallets. CargoWiz is an $879 Windows license with stack limits and axle weights today. Truck Packer is $28 a month in any browser, no install, with a crew link that opens on any phone.
CargoWiz and Truck Packer do the same core job: they turn a list of boxed items into a 3D load plan for a truck, trailer or container. CargoWiz is a one-time $879 Windows license with a deeper rules engine, and Truck Packer is a $28 a month web app that opens in any browser and shares the pack with your crew on their phones.
CargoWiz costs $879 once for one user, Truck Packer costs $28 a month
Source: SoftTruck, How To Buy CargoWiz and Truck Packer pricing
SoftTruck's order page lists a 1-user CargoWiz license at $879 and a 2-user license at $1,176, with bigger tiers dropping the per-seat price. They also sell a yearly subscription, $235 for one user or $315 for two, and they say support is free. Truck Packer Pro is $28 a month, or 25% off on annual billing, which works out to $252 a year. At that rate the CargoWiz license pays for itself in about three and a half years. If you're one person who plans the same kind of load for a decade, the one-time buy is honestly the better deal. For everyone else, Pro costs less up front and you can pause it when work slows down, so you're not paying in the off months.
Both plan pallets, cartons and containers, Truck Packer ships about 83 presets
Source: CargoWiz features
CargoWiz comes from freight. It has built-in pallet sizes for four continents, a pinwheel pallet pattern, a "Container Advisor" that picks the cheapest mix of containers, and a report that splits freight cost across each item by volume. Truck Packer does the same core job with cartons, crates, pallets or road cases, and its preset library has about 83 containers: trailers, ISO 20, 40 and 45 foot shipping containers, air ULDs, pallets, rail cars and rental trucks. AutoPack fills the space, collision flags catch overlaps, and you get weight per container and a PDF export. About 24% of our users run warehouse and distribution and 9% are in freight and logistics, with the rest in tour production, where I come from.
CargoWiz runs on Windows, Truck Packer runs in any browser
Source: SoftTruck, How To Buy CargoWiz
SoftTruck lists the requirement as Windows XP or newer. On a Mac it runs through Parallels or Boot Camp, so you still need a copy of Windows. Truck Packer is a web app with nothing to install, so it opens on whatever laptop is in the office and your packs live in your account, not on one machine. I built it to be the easiest load planner to use: you drag items into the truck and a new hire can read the plan without training. The tradeoff is that it needs an internet connection, and a desktop program doesn't.
CargoWiz has stack limits and axle weights today, Truck Packer's are in progress
Source: CargoWiz features
CargoWiz lets you set how many times like cargo can stack, mark items bottom only, set loading priorities, keep some cargo "taboo on top" of others, and stop loading at a weight limit. It also calculates axle weights and center of gravity, and lets you drag the load to shift it. Truck Packer's AutoPack doesn't take stack limits, bottom-only items or unload priority yet, and it shows payload per truck and weight visualization but not axle and kingpin weights. Just want to be transparent with you on the roadmap: axle weights are in progress, and I'd rather say that plainly than have you find out at a scale. Until then you drag the few items with rules where they belong.
Truck Packer shares one link with the whole crew, CargoWiz shares a PDF
Source: Truck Packer changelog
CargoWiz's main sharing tool is its reports. You print the "Details and Sequences" report to a PDF and email it, and that PDF can open on a phone. Truck Packer's crew view is a live link instead. Anyone on the crew opens it on their phone without an account, sees every truck, and checks items off a shared loadout checklist. Since v0.10.2 the share button also makes a QR code you can tape to the truck. When the pack changes at 2 a.m., nobody's loading off last night's PDF. On Business, more than one person can edit the same pack at once, and multi-truck packs split one load across a fleet.
Both import from a spreadsheet, Truck Packer also has a REST API
Source: Truck Packer changelog
CargoWiz imports through an Excel template, and can link to an ERP or WMS if a programmer writes the export. Truck Packer takes CSV and XLSX files, and the Business importer in v0.10.4 reads dimensions packed into one column like 48x24x30, which is how a lot of pick lists and pull sheets come out. Business includes a REST API and WMS integrations, though there's no SAP or ERP connector yet. For production shops there's a bonus: Stagera pull sheets push straight in as of v0.9.3, and whole manufacturer case catalogs pull in too, like the 565 Gator Cases items added in v0.10.3. CargoWiz has the edge on languages, with nine of them listed.
Truck Packer does the same load plan for $28 a month with no install
Source: CargoWiz features and Truck Packer pricing
Both tools take your boxed items and a container and give you a 3D plan with weights you can hand to the dock. Truck Packer does it for $28 a month, in any browser on a Mac or PC, with a crew link that opens on a phone without an account or any training. CargoWiz still has stack limits, bottom-only rules and axle weights in its solver today, and if every load you send needs those right now, that's the honest reason to buy it. Otherwise, try the CargoWiz trial and ours on the same truck and see which one your crew can run on day one.
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