Tread gives you three levels of approval depending on how you track and verify driver work: Approve Work (shifts), Approve Jobs, and Approve Loads. This article walks you through each one.
Approve Work — Shift-Level Approvals
Use the Approve Work page when you need to approve a driver's full day as a digital timesheet. This view shows each driver's shift — when they started, when they ended, and all jobs completed within that shift.
To approve a shift:
Navigate to Approvals → Approve Work.
Filter to the date you need to review.
Review the shift details for each driver, including start and end times and the jobs completed.
Edit any times if corrections are needed.
Click Approve Shift to approve. Approving a shift automatically approves all jobs and loads underneath it.
💡 If a driver has not ended their shift, only certain user roles have permission to end it on the driver's behalf. Once the driver ends their shift themselves, it will appear ready for approval.
Approve Jobs — Job-Level Approvals
Use the Approve Jobs page when you are reviewing work on a per-job basis, typically for tonnage or per-load jobs. This page focuses on the work completed rather than the driver's full day.
To approve a job:
Navigate to Approvals → Approve Jobs.
Filter to the date and order you need to review.
Click into a job to verify the details. From here you can:
Edit times if needed.
Click View Route History to review how the driver moved throughout the day.
Review the Timeline to see a full log of actions taken by the driver, dispatcher, or system.
Click Approve Job to approve, or use Bulk Approve to approve multiple jobs at once. Approving a job automatically approves all loads underneath it.
💡 A job will only appear on this page once it has been completed and the order is in progress. Jobs on orders that have not yet started will not show up here.
Unapproving jobs and loads:
You can unapprove at the load level even if the job remains approved.
You can also approve a load while leaving the job unapproved.
If you unapprove a job, all loads underneath will need to be re-approved individually.
Approve Loads — Load-Level Approvals
If your workflow is ticket-heavy and you prefer to review each load individually, switch to the Loads view within the Approvals page.
To switch to load-level approvals:
In the Approve Jobs page, click the Jobs / Loads toggle in the top right corner and select Loads.
This view shows all loads across all orders for the selected day.
Click into each load to verify the details and either:
Click Approve to approve and stay on the page.
Click Approve Next to approve and automatically move to the next load.
Use Approve All to approve all loads at once if everything looks correct.
Let us show you how:
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