Automated LTL Lane Capacity Digest
Every Monday, WebRun queries SMC3 CarrierConnect for transit time and service availability across your key LTL lanes, identifies lanes where transit times have lengthened or carrier coverage has narrowed, logs the findings to Google Sheets, and posts a lane capacity digest to your operations Slack channel.
How do I get a weekly digest of LTL lane capacity changes and transit time shifts?
WebRun queries SMC3 CarrierConnect every Monday for transit time and carrier coverage across your watched LTL lanes, compares results against the prior week to flag tightening capacity or longer transit times, logs the trend data in Google Sheets, and posts a ranked lane capacity digest to your Slack channel before your Monday planning meeting.
- Capacity tightening on key lanes is spotted a week before it affects delivery commitments
- Operations team gets a ranked digest before Monday planning without any manual querying
- Multi-week trends accumulate in Google Sheets for carrier negotiation and RFP planning
Built for LTL shippers · logistics planners · 3PLs · supply chain teams
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
www.smc3.comin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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SMC3 - query transit times and carrier coverage on key lanes
smc3.com
WebRun opens SMC3 to query transit times and carrier coverage on key lanes. - Open SMC3 CarrierConnect and run a transit time query for each lane in your watched list
- Compare current transit times against the prior week's baseline for each origin-destination pair
- Identify lanes where transit time has increased by one or more days or where fewer carriers now service the lane
Done when Every watched lane has a current transit time comparison and a change flag where applicable.
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Google Sheets - log lane changes and trend data
google.com
WebRun opens Google Sheets to log lane changes and trend data. - Open the lane capacity tracker in Google Sheets
- Append this week's transit times alongside the prior week for each lane
- Color-code lanes with worsening transit times in red and improved ones in green
Done when The lane tracker is updated with this week's data and trend indicators.
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Slack - post weekly lane capacity digest
slack.com
WebRun opens Slack to post weekly lane capacity digest. - Post the weekly lane capacity digest to the operations Slack channel
- Lead with the lanes showing the largest transit time increases
- Include the number of carriers currently servicing each flagged lane and a link to the full Sheets tracker
Done when The team has a weekly Slack digest of lane capacity changes before Monday planning meetings.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
How many lanes can it monitor at once?
You define the lane list in a Google Sheets watched-lane tab. There is no hard limit, though very large lists may require the run cadence to be shifted to avoid rate limits on SMC3 queries.
What counts as a capacity change?
It flags any lane where the SMC3 published transit time increased by one or more days week over week, or where the number of carriers servicing the lane dropped since the prior run.
Can I add a new lane to the watch list without reconfiguring the whole workflow?
Yes. Just add the new origin-destination pair to the watched-lane tab in Google Sheets and it will be included automatically on the next Monday run.
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