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Every claim on this site, in one table.

Twenty-four rows across six categories, including the rows where our own column is a plain no. Anything a vendor has not published is marked not published rather than scored against them.

24 capabilities
Six categories
Public documentation, August 2026

The matrix

What each category does, and does not, take responsibility for.

These are category generalisations rather than vendor claims. Individual products inside a category vary, and the category pages name them one by one.

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Showing all 24 capabilities.

Capability matrix comparing AxleGuard with routing and navigation platforms, dispatch systems, telematics, onboard scales, and bypass and permit services
Capability	AxleGuard	Routing & navigation	Dispatch / TMS	Telematics / ELD	Onboard scales	Bypass & permits
Truck-aware route requested from stored dimensions and weight	Yes	Yes	part	No	No	No
Low bridges and restricted roads avoided on the planAxleGuard marks the route for manual review if the provider relaxes a restriction	part	Yes	part	No	No	No
Per-axle weight solved from cargo positionBefore anything is loaded	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Bridge formula on every consecutive axle group	Yes	No	No	No	part	No
Tire and axle-rating limits layered on statute	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Which rule bound, named on the verdict	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Corrective slider position in holes and inches	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Answer available before the trailer is sealed	Yes	part	part	No	No	No
Compliance recomputed per leg as freight comes off	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Fuel burn changing the verdict mid-trip	Yes	No	No	No	part	No
Restriction-ignored warning surfaced to the planner	Yes	part	No	No	No	No
Derived replay now; physical axle signal after commissioning	part	No	No	part	Yes	No
Weight history plotted across the whole runCurrent AxleGuard samples are a named derived replay; physical measurements require commissioning	Yes	No	No	part	part	No
HOS planning clocks on the same timeline as the loadPlanning arithmetic, separate from the legal log-of-record workflow	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Editable jurisdiction rule sets	Yes	No	part	No	No	part
Permit pathway when no legal position existsIdentifies candidates and tracks the filing record; the issuing agency still controls the permit	Yes	No	part	No	No	Yes
Escort and travel-window conditions recorded on a permitAxleGuard records the controlling conditions; it does not derive or issue them	part	No	part	No	No	part
Weigh station and bypass status along the route	part	No	No	part	No	Yes
HOS record workflow and roadside transferNot an FMCSA-registered ELD; telematic/local transfer unlocks only when registration evidence is recorded	part	No	part	Yes	No	No
Orders, rates, settlements and invoicing	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Hardware fitted to the truck required	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	part
Provider cost linked to the individual loadThe call record can carry a load ID; the current report does not aggregate a per-load ledger	part	No	part	part	No	part
Before-and-after audit on governed changes	Yes	No	part	No	No	No
The same verdict on the desk and in the cab	Yes	part	part	part	part	No

supportedpart partly, or with limits not supportedn/p not published by the vendor

Read a part as "some products in this category, or all of them with limits". Read an n/p as "the vendors we checked have not published this", which is a fact about documentation and not a fault.

Our column was checked against the application code

Every AxleGuard cell was re-audited on August 29, 2026. A partial mark now covers six specific boundaries: relaxed route restrictions, physical telemetry, permit conditions, bypass-provider connection, ELD registration and per-load cost presentation.

How to read it

The rows are grouped, and the groups matter more than the ticks.

A tick in the wrong group is worth nothing. A fleet that already routes well and still gets cited has a problem in rows three to seven, not in rows one and two.

Rows 1 to 2 — the road

Whether the tool understands that a road has a height, a weight rating and a turn radius, and refuses to send a 13-foot-6 trailer under a 13-foot bridge.

Rows 3 to 7 — the axles

Whether the tool solves what each axle group carries from where the freight sits, applies every statutory test to it, and says which rule bound.

Rows 8 to 14 — the run

Whether the answer survives contact with a real trip: legs, drops, fuel burn, hours, and a verdict that changes because the truck moved.

Rows 15 to 18 — the rules

Whether jurisdiction is a property of the load rather than a global setting, and what happens when no legal position exists.

Rows 19 to 24 — the operation

The office functions, the hardware, the money and the audit trail. This is where our own column has the honest gaps in it.

Our own boundaries, on purpose

Orders, settlements and invoicing remain a plain no. HOS record mechanics exist, but the workspace is not FMCSA registered. Recorded registration status gates transfer today; the other readiness checks are visible evidence, not yet enforcement gates. Physical signals stay partial until a real gateway passes commissioning.

Rows marked supported, out of 24

rows

AxleGuard16 rows
Plus six part, and two plain no
Routing and navigation2 rows
Plus three part
Dispatch and TMS2 rows
Plus ten part
Telematics and ELD3 rows
Plus five part
Onboard scales2 rows
Plus four part
Bypass and permits2 rows
Plus four part

Counted from the table above. This is not a scoreboard. The twenty-four rows follow one load from planning through operation, and every category here is being asked about work it may never have set out to do.

Why the count is the least useful thing here

A dispatch system carrying two ticks and ten parts is not a weak product. It is a strong product being asked about axle physics. Read down the rows that bind your own operation instead, and ignore the totals.

Five of these six columns hold products a fleet already owns. The question was never which one to replace.

The nearest neighbours

Axle calculators deserve their own table.

Putting a dedicated axle weight calculator in the same column as a dispatch system would flatter us and mislead you. This is the closer comparison, and the one worth arguing about.

Search the closer comparisonAxleGuard answer

Showing all 12 capabilities.

Capability matrix comparing AxleGuard with dedicated axle weight calculators, load and container packing software, and an in-house spreadsheet
Capability	AxleGuard	Axle weight calculators	Load and container packers	Spreadsheet built in-house
Axle weights from payload position	Yes	Yes	part	part
Bridge formula on every consecutive group	Yes	part	No	No
Tire and axle-rating limits layered on statute	Yes	n/p	No	No
Corrective move given in holes and inches	Yes	No	No	No
Jurisdiction rule set attached to the load	Yes	part	No	No
Container and pallet packing in three dimensions	Yes	No	Yes	No
Centre of gravity and stability output	part	Yes	Yes	No
Finished-vehicle build record and sign-off workflow	part	Yes	No	No
Re-solved per leg as freight comes off	Yes	No	No	No
Routed on a road the vehicle can legally take	Yes	No	No	No
Derived replay now; physical axle signal after commissioning	part	No	No	No
Audit trail of who changed a limit	Yes	n/p	n/p	No

supportedpart partly, or with limits not supportedn/p not published by the vendor

Two engineering boundaries

AxleGuard now exposes a planning-grade centre-of-gravity and rollover margin, plus an accepted finished-vehicle build record. Neither is a certified stability calculation or a dealer/bodybuilder pre-build specification. A firm speccing a tanker body should still buy the engineering tool built for that work.

Methodology

Where these rows came from.

Every row is drawn from publicly published product documentation, specification sheets and vendor support material, read as of August 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a capability, the cell reads not published. That is a statement about what has been written down, not a claim that the product cannot do it.

There are no pricing figures, customer counts, market share numbers or benchmark timings anywhere in this table, because we have not run those tests and the vendors have not published figures that could be compared fairly.

Product names and trademarks belong to their owners and are used for identification and comparison only. None of the vendors named on this site has reviewed or endorsed any of it. These are active products that ship changes continuously, so confirm anything that matters directly with the vendor before it decides a purchase.

The reasoning behind each row, category by category, is on themethodology section of the compare hub.

One table is not a decision

A matrix is good at showing you what to ask about and bad at telling you what to buy. Take the four or five rows that actually bind your operation, and put those questions to every vendor on your list, including us.

Where a row disagrees with a vendor

If a vendor publishes something that contradicts a cell here, the vendor is right and we will change it. Point it out and we would rather correct the page than argue with the documentation.

Our own column, counted

The 24 rows, as our own column answers them

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67%

25%

8%

Supported16 rows
Partly, or with limits6 rows
A plain no2 rows

Six rows carry visible limits: relaxed route restrictions, physical signals, permit conditions, bypass, HOS transfer and per-load cost presentation. Orders and invoicing remain outside the product.

Category detail

Each column, taken apart.

Every category page names the products, says what each one is good at, and marks anything the vendor has not published.

Back to the landscape

Routing and navigation

Five platforms that know the road, and the question they are not asked.

Read

Axle and load calculators

The nearest neighbours we have, and what a desk tool cannot reach.

Read

Dispatch and TMS

Six systems that run a freight company properly.

Read

Telematics and ELD

The best record of the truck, arriving after the fact.

Read

Onboard scales

Real measurement, once the freight is already aboard.

Read

Bypass and permits

The interface with enforcement, and what a green light means.

Read

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