What Ships After Multi-Truck Is Still Open. Come Define It.

Multi-truck planning shipped in v0.10 on August 12, along with the container library, and both items moved from Planned to Completed on the Truck Packer roadmap. That is the good part. The awkward part is what sits above them on the same board: two features still marked Planned, both of which we could build wrong in a week if we build them from a whiteboard instead of from your trailer.

So this post is not an announcement. It is an ask. Get on a call with us and tell us which one goes first and how it should behave.

What actually shipped

A single pack now holds as many containers as the job needs, with per-container Crew Views, per-container PDF exports, and a weight readout that lists every container in the pack and shows the weight of cases that are not loaded yet. The container library came with it, so you can pull in ready-made trailers, box trucks, shipping containers, air ULDs, pallets, rail cars and rental trucks rather than typing dimensions off a tape measure. The full list is on the changelog.

That release closed the "one pack per truck" problem. It did not touch the two problems underneath it.

The two open items, and the questions we cannot answer alone

Bus trailer support. The roadmap entry is short: bus trailers and non-packable zones, meaning wheel wells. The geometry is the easy half. The hard half is behavior. Should the app refuse to place a case in a wheel well, or place it and flag it, since half the crews we have talked to do put a soft case over a well and would rather see a warning than a wall? Do you know your trailer's interior spec, or do you measure it once and save it as a preset? Is the trailer even the constraint, or is it the door and the ramp angle?

Stackable packing constraint. Same shape of problem. Is "do not stack" a property of one case, or of a pair of cases? Is it a hard no, or a weight limit where a 40 pound case on top is fine and a 200 pound amp rack is not? Every shop we have asked has drawn that line somewhere different, and the ones with the strongest opinions are the ones who have already replaced a lid because someone got it wrong at 2am.

There is a third item in Beta rather than Planned: Cargo Measure, the iOS LiDAR companion that scans a real case and drops it into your library pre-positioned. It is in closed TestFlight, which means the people testing it are shaping it right now.

Why we would rather ask than guess

The Live Production Summit's Scaling the Show panel frames the current moment as a mid-career crew gap colliding with inflated production expectations, and lands on standardization and data-driven advancing as the way out. We agree with the diagnosis. What we are not willing to do is invent the standard from the outside and hand it to you. A constraint model that does not match how your shop actually loads is worse than no constraint model, because now the plan is confidently wrong and someone downstream trusts it.

Every feature on that board that people actually use came out of a call with someone loading real gear. Packing groups, the weight readout, metric units, multi-truck. None of those were our idea first.

What the call looks like

Twenty five minutes, on video, booked here. No deck. Bring whatever you use now, which is usually a photo of the trailer, a pack list, or a spreadsheet that has survived three tours. We will walk your actual load in the app while you watch, and the parts where you say "that is not how we do it" are the whole point of the meeting.

If a call is not your thing, the roadmap page has a contact link and we read every one. But the call is better, because the useful detail almost never survives being typed into a form.

The board says the roadmap is subject to change. That line is usually a hedge. Here it is an invitation.

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