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Detention pay is compensation owed to truck drivers when they wait at a shipper or receiver beyond the contracted free time, typically two hours.

Owner-operators are entitled to detention pay if it is written into the rate confirmation or broker contract. Industry studies show U.S. drivers lose more than three billion dollars per year in unpaid detention because they cannot prove how long they waited.

More than fifty percent of detention invoices go unpaid because drivers cannot produce verifiable evidence of arrival and departure times.

Brokers and shippers routinely dispute claims that rely only on a driver's logbook or memory. The documentation gap, not the entitlement, is the actual barrier to payment.

PayDwell creates an evidence record that brokers find difficult to refute.

The app uses your phone's GPS to detect when you cross a facility's geo-fence and records the exact second you arrive. It then prompts you to capture a time-stamped, GPS-tagged photo of the gate as physical proof. When the bill of lading is signed, you capture a second photo to lock in the departure time. The invoice PDF includes both photos, both timestamps, the GPS coordinates, and the calculated billable duration.

Your phone is enough.

PayDwell runs on any iPhone with iOS 16 or later. There is no separate hardware, no ELD integration, and no telematics device required. The Android version is in development.

Recovery depends on your detention rate, your facility wait frequency, and your hauling segment.

Reefer specialists average 56 percent detention occurrence per stop. At a typical seventy-five dollars per hour rate, a single two-hour delay produces $150 in billable detention. Drivers who experience two such delays per week have potential annual billable detention in the $15,000 range, assuming brokers honor the documented invoices.

The Founding 10 program offers free lifetime access to the first ten owner-operator drivers who join the iOS beta.

There is no fee, no subscription, no payment information requested. Founding Members receive direct line access to the founder for feature requests and product feedback.

The Android build is in development.

Drivers running Android can join the waitlist on this page and will be notified the day the app goes live on the Google Play Store. No timeline is publicly committed yet, and early waitlist signups will receive priority access at launch.

No. PayDwell stores all session data, photos, facility records, and broker information locally on your device.

There is no PayDwell backend that holds your records. When you email an invoice to a broker, your phone's native mail composer sends it directly from your account. We never see the contents.

Brokers can always dispute an invoice, but PayDwell substantially raises the cost of doing so.

The PDF includes GPS-verified timestamps, two photographic evidence points, and a clear breakdown of free time, billable duration, and applied rate. Disputing a PayDwell invoice requires the broker to refute the GPS record itself, which is a meaningfully higher bar than disputing a driver's logbook entry.

No. PayDwell is independent of any trucking management system, carrier, factoring company, or load board.

The app is built and operated by an independent developer based in Savannah, Georgia. PayDwell does not share data with carriers or third-party platforms.

PayDwell is a mobile app that helps owner-operators document detention time and generate professional invoice PDFs.

Drivers use it because it eliminates the administrative burden of capturing arrival time, billing duration, and supporting evidence. The output is a structured PDF the driver emails to your AP department, including GPS coordinates, timestamps, and signed BOL reference.

No. PayDwell is anti-documentation-gap.

The product makes detention pay defensible regardless of which side you're on. Drivers without administrative support get the evidence chain they need. Brokers who want to charge accessorials to shippers get the documentation to do it. The bad actors in this picture are the facilities that systematically burn driver hours, not the brokers who get caught in between.

A PayDwell invoice is a structured PDF with GPS-verified timestamps and source evidence; a typed-up invoice is a text claim.

The PDF includes facility name and address, geo-fence-triggered arrival timestamp, contracted free time, billable duration calculation, hourly rate applied, and a shift log of evidence captures. Your AP team gets a single document to review rather than reconciling claims against logbook entries.

Yes — that's one of the core use cases.

PayDwell's evidence packet is structured to be defensible when you charge the shipper for accessorials. The GPS-verified timing and photographic evidence give your accessorial claim the same defensibility your driver had when they billed you. Brokers operating without driver-supplied documentation typically eat detention costs because they cannot prove them to shippers.

Not yet. PayDwell currently produces a PDF the driver emails to you directly.

The app does not connect to McLeod, AscendTMS, Truckstop, or factoring platforms at this stage. The PDF can be forwarded, attached to your accessorial filing, or stored in your existing documentation system. TMS integration is on the roadmap but is not committed to a timeline.

You can dispute any invoice — PayDwell just makes the dispute fact-based rather than memory-based.

The PDF gives you specific facts to engage with: arrival GPS coordinates, timestamps, contracted free time the driver has on file, applied hourly rate. If any of those are inaccurate, that's a productive starting point for the conversation. If they're accurate, you have the evidence packet your shipper needs to honor an accessorial claim.

Most drivers interpret it as a sign that you take their time seriously.

Owner-operators consistently rank "broker that pays detention reliably" among their top criteria for choosing where to haul. Brokers who proactively support PayDwell — rather than treating it as adversarial — gain a real driver retention advantage. The drivers who use this app are the ones who pay attention to operational details. Those are the drivers brokers want to keep.

No. PayDwell stores all session data, broker information, and contract details on the driver's device only.

There is no PayDwell server backend that holds your company's information. Each driver maintains their own list of brokers and contract terms locally. No carrier, factoring company, or third party receives your data from PayDwell. See the privacy policy at paydwell.app/privacy for full details.

Not currently. PayDwell is a driver-side tool; there is no broker dashboard yet.

A broker-facing dashboard with aggregate driver claim history, facility-level dwell statistics, and accessorial-ready exports is on the roadmap for after the iOS launch stabilizes. If this would be valuable to your operation, signal interest through our Facebook page. We are prioritizing v2 features based on real broker demand.

Send them this page and let them know detention claims you receive in PayDwell PDF format will be processed faster.

Brokers signaling that they accept and prefer PayDwell PDFs gives drivers a concrete reason to install the app. The first ten drivers who join receive lifetime free access. Those slots fill from real driver demand. A nudge from a broker they already work with accelerates that.