Tidal Shift

A look inside Tidal Shift for carriers — the real platform, loaded with a worked example. You’re not signed in and there’s nothing to set up — just scroll at your own pace. Not a council? See the councils tour.

Guided tour

A corridor from a carrier's perspective

Welcome to this guided mini-tour of Tidal Shift, a neutral reverse logistics coordination and chain-of-custody platform for hard-to-move materials. This will run you through some of its main features and where to find them once you're set up.

Illustrated with
6 demonstration councils
Corridor
Alice Springs → Darwin
Stops
7
Time needed
10-15 minutes

Before you start

The screenshots below come from a demonstration corridor — six fictional councils on the real Stuart Highway, with a receiver in Darwin.

There is nothing to set up and nothing to click through to — just read and absorb as you go. Each stop names the feature it comes from, so you can see how the parts fit together.

  1. Stop 01

    Your dashboard

    Dashboard

    The dashboard shows four counts: what you've accepted, what's in transit, what's available to take, and what you finished this month.

    Carrier dashboard showing one active assignment, none in transit, four available loads and one completed this month, with quick actions to browse loads, view opportunities and manage lanes.
    Available Loads is open work you could take.

    Look at

    • Available Loads — open work available to you
    • Active Assignments — what you already hold
    • Quick actions — jump straight to browsing loads or managing your lanes

    What this means

    Councils always have materials to move. Until now they haven't had an easy way to show carriers it's available.

  2. Stop 02

    Several councils, several materials, one road

    Available Loads

    Open work posted by councils, still unassigned. In this demonstration the four loads — e-waste, mattresses, whitegoods and batteries — come from four different councils. Each is small on its own; combined along one highway, they fill a truck.

    Available Loads table listing four posted loads: mixed e-waste, mattresses, whitegoods and lead-acid batteries from four different councils, all bound for Darwin.
    Four councils, four materials, all heading to the same receiver.

    Look at

    • The Owner column — different councils
    • The Destination column — often one receiver
    • Weights: small on their own

    What this means

    Small quantities from several councils, combined into one load worth carrying. The material was there all along; what was missing was the coordination.

  3. Stop 03

    Prospective loads

    Opportunities

    Loads pooling, with councils' anticipated pickup window. You can register interest and give an indicative rate — not a bid or a commitment, just a note that you'd be interested at roughly this price.

    Upcoming Opportunities list showing mattresses, whitegoods and baled cardboard, each with a pickup window and a response status.
    The right-hand column tracks whether you have responded.

    Look at

    • Pickup window, not a fixed date — councils flex to fit your run
    • The Your Response column
    • Filter by material to see only what you handle

    What this means

    Timing is often a bigger problem than volume. Knowing weeks ahead lets you plan the run rather than arrange it at short notice.

  4. Stop 04

    Several councils arrive as one run

    Run coordination

    When councils on a corridor pool loads, the platform assembles it and offers it as a single job: one route, with a stop at each site, without the usual manual hassle.

    Run offer showing six councils on the run, 27 tonnes total, indicative distance and cost, with a map of the consolidated route down the Stuart Highway to Darwin.
    One offer, six councils. The map shows the pickups in corridor order.

    Look at

    • Councils on this run, and the pooled volume
    • The indicative figures, and the paragraph under them
    • Pickups in corridor order

    What this means

    Councils on a corridor pool their loads into one run and send it to you. You quote; when they accept, the run is yours.

  5. Stop 05

    You post your empty capacity; councils are automatically notified

    Post capacity

    This screen starts with you rather than a council. If you're running back with empty space, post it — the councils on that route are notified and can offer material into it.

    Capacity posting for a Stuart Highway return leg: six councils notified, two responded, 24 tonnes capacity with 16 tonnes pledged, shown as a fill bar and a running total.
    The bar is your truck; the segments are councils pledging into it.

    Look at

    • How many councils were notified, and how many responded
    • The fill bar — pledged against capacity
    • You choose which pledges to take, and confirm your own rate

    What this means

    An empty return leg still costs you. Posting it lets councils find and pay into that space — revenue on kilometres you're already driving.

  6. Stop 06

    What your profile looks like to councils

    My carrier profile

    Your standing profile: the runs you already make, the materials you'll take, your conditions of carriage, your rate card. You write it once, and every council on your corridor can read it rather than asking each time.

    Manage carrier profile screen with a summary, service area, contact details, operating notes and a list of regular runs.
    “View as a council sees it” shows exactly what they read.

    Look at

    • Regular runs — frequency, capacity, cut-off
    • Operating notes — who loads, and where you need a hand
    • Conditions of carriage, published and versioned

    What this means

    Councils often hold back when they're unsure what you'll accept or how you want it presented. Setting it out here means material is more likely to arrive the way you need it.

  7. Stop 07

    Chain of custody record

    My Assignments

    A completed collection: counted onto the truck, counted off, variance recorded, photographs at both ends. It's the full automated traceability record for transparency and verification.

    Load detail showing an agreed-rate panel, then chain of custody with 12 counted at pickup, 12 at delivery, zero variance, marked reconciled, and a route map.
    Reconciled at both ends. Above it, the rate panel — Tidal Shift records what you agreed, it does not set it.

    Look at

    • Counts at both ends, and the variance between them
    • The agreed-rate panel: you record what you agreed, off-platform
    • Custody photos at each step: listing, pickup, and delivery

    What this means

    A clear custody record verifies where materials went without the manual burden, produced as a byproduct of the material movement.

What else is in there

The 7 stops are the shape of it. These are the features that fill in around them.

Credentials
Your transport licences. For listed materials, your verified licence is shown so councils can see you're eligible for the work.
Lanes
The corridors you run, so relevant work can find you.
Match schedule
Upload next month's runs and see which listed loads fit them.
Destinations
Where your runs deliver, declared once so councils can verify the receiver.
Container returns
Reusable containers that went out and haven't all come back, ready to bring back on a return run.
Reports
Your operating history, and a regulator waste-tracking export.

What Tidal Shift does not do

It never touches your money

Tidal Shift is not a party to your contract with a council. It does not set rates, take a margin on freight, or move payments. Every figure shown is indicative; the rate is whatever you and the council agree, recorded so both sides see the same version.

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