The Link Load matching system provides logic to prevent certain truck/load matches involving Canada-US border crossings. A particular load or truck posting has 4 possible border crossing conditions:
* Source and Destination within the US
* Source and Destination within Canada
* Source in the US, Destination in Canada
* Source in Canada, Destination in the US.
There are 16 possible combinations of matches between loads and trucks border crossing conditions.
Only 4 of these will match in Link's load matching system (see table).
Load Matching Border Crossing Combinations:
|
Case # |
Posted Load/Truck Country |
Matching Load/Truck Country |
Match? |
|
|
Source |
Destination |
Source |
Destination |
|
|
1 |
US |
US |
US |
US |
YES |
|
2 |
US |
US |
US |
CAN |
NO |
|
3 |
US |
US |
CAN |
US |
NO |
|
4 |
US |
US |
CAN |
CAN |
NO |
|
5 |
CAN |
US |
US |
US |
NO |
|
6 |
CAN |
US |
US |
CAN |
NO |
|
7 |
CAN |
US |
CAN |
US |
YES |
|
8 |
CAN |
US |
CAN |
CAN |
NO |
|
9 |
US |
CAN |
US |
US |
NO |
|
10 |
US |
CAN |
US |
CAN |
YES |
|
11 |
US |
CAN |
CAN |
US |
NO |
|
12 |
US |
CAN |
CAN |
CAN |
NO |
|
13 |
CAN |
CAN |
US |
US |
NO |
|
14 |
CAN |
CAN |
US |
CAN |
NO |
|
15 |
CAN |
CAN |
CAN |
US |
NO |
|
16 |
CAN |
CAN |
CAN |
CAN |
YES |
If conditions 1, 7, 10 or 16 are true, then the match will pass. For example, a truck is posted from
Toronto Canada to Detroit Michigan. This truck falls into the group 5-8. It will only match with loads
that are also traveling from Canada to the US (case 7).It will not match with any other type of load
with respect to the border crossing conditions.