What is TOVR
TOVR is AI execution infrastructure for EU freight carriers — a decision layer on top of the freight exchanges carriers already use, organized as three products: TOVR, APEX, and fOS.
TOVR is AI execution infrastructure for European full-truckload (FTL) carriers. It is a decision and execution layer that sits on top of the freight platforms carriers already use — Transporeon, TimoCom, Trans.eu, LKW Walter, Saloodo, Cargopedia, Teleroute — rather than being another freight exchange. TOVR ingests fragmented demand (loads posted on those exchanges) and live capacity (a carrier's own trucks), then builds legally-compliant, economically-optimal freight chains and helps the carrier win and execute them.
The core thesis: a load's value is determined by the chain around it. A single load is priced not in isolation but as one leg of a route a specific truck actually runs — including the empty (deadhead) kilometres before and after. TOVR scores freight by real profit per truck-day, checks it against EU compliance rules, and monetizes only on freight the carrier actually executes.
The three pillars
This documentation is organized around the three products that make up TOVR. They are distinct but composable — fOS consumes TOVR's domain and APEX's market data.
| Pillar | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| TOVR | The platform: the freight domain, the cost engine, freight chains, procurement, compliance, and the dispatcher dashboard. | Platform overview |
| APEX | Freight price intelligence: European spot-and-executed rate data exposed as corridor percentiles and market analytics over an API. | What APEX is |
| fOS | The AI dispatcher — "your dispatcher, multiplied." An operator that runs the freight loop across web, voice, and external assistants (MCP). | Meet fOS |
How the pieces fit
- TOVR owns the freight domain — shipments, loads, chains, vehicles, carriers, the cost engine, and compliance. It is the source of truth for what a chain costs and whether it is legal to run.
- APEX answers "what does this lane pay?" — it turns millions of price observations into corridor percentiles (p25 / median / p75) with a confidence score. TOVR's bid recommendation combines APEX's market view with the cost engine's floor.
- fOS is the operator on top. It calls the same tools a human dispatcher would use — find loads, price a chain, make an offer, negotiate, confirm a win — and never fabricates a number, because its economics come from the cost engine and APEX.
How this corpus is used
These docs are dual-purpose. They are the public documentation at docs.tovr.eu, and they are the knowledge base a retrieval system feeds to fOS so the AI understands the product. Two rules follow from that and shape everything here:
- Every concept has exactly one home. Cost engine, cabotage, market percentiles — each is explained in one owner page; other pages link to it rather than re-explaining it. This keeps retrieval clean and prevents contradictory answers.
- Each pillar is split into three lanes — Concepts (how it works), Guides (how to do a task), and Reference (API and schema specs). Start in Concepts.
New to the domain? Read the shared Concepts & Glossary first.