National Road Traffic Act 93 of 1996
Anneira works out where every pallet sits so no axle is overloaded, the combination stays under 56 tonnes and the load stays under 4.3 metres — computed for your actual trailer, not a rule of thumb. Then it runs the rest of the job, from booking through to paid.
Who we are
Anneira is a South African software company. We build fleet and load-planning software for operators running South African roads, under South African law, on South African pallets.
That narrowness is deliberate. International load planners have prettier 3D and longer export menus, and not one of them knows what Regulation 240 says about a tridem axle, or why a 2.6 metre width limit puts exactly two Cape Standard pallets across a deck and not three. We would rather be the only tool that gets those right than another tool that gets everything approximately right.
Axle-by-axle mass against NRTA limits, the bridge formula, the 56 000 kg combination cap and the 4.3 m height ceiling — worked out for the trailer you actually own, before the load is built.
One record follows a load from the day it is booked to the day it is paid: vehicle, driver, drops, documents, POD, invoice. Every status change is kept, with who made it.
Each operator gets a separate installation with its own database and its own subdomain. Your data is not sitting in a shared table behind a filter.
Load planning
Drag a pallet in the planner and the server re-runs the same statics engine that built the plan, then sends back new axle figures. There is no second, simpler calculation running in the browser, so what you see is what the engine says.
The South African standard pallet is 1200 × 1000 and the legal width limit puts two of them across a deck. Anneira packs from the real pallet footprint, compares crosswise against lengthwise and reports the position count each layout yields.
Linked-body statics push the load through the kingpin out to each axle group and compare it against that group's own limit. Permissible payload is the lowest of GVM, GCM less tare, the sum of the axle limits less tare, and the 56 000 kg combination cap. An axle can be over while the total payload is comfortably legal — that is exactly the case this catches.
Deck floor height plus the tallest stack, checked against the 4.3 m ceiling with a warning band beneath it, and handled differently for open decks and enclosed bodies. Reefers, tautliners, containers and tankers get a second, separate check: does the load actually fit inside the body.
Stackability is set on the pallet type, overridden per manifest line and again per pallet. A pallet marked non-stackable neither goes up nor accepts anything on top. Bearing capacity accumulates down the stack, so a floor pallet must carry everything above it — and removing stackability from a pallet that is currently carrying one is refused on save, by name, instead of silently dropping the load above it.
What Anneira does and does not do. It computes and it flags. Responsibility for a legal load stays with the operator and the driver. Overhang is deliberately not modelled — squeezing pallets in is normal practice on a South African yard, and a millimetre-exact fit check would describe a stricter world than the one loaders work in.
See it work
Thirty seconds, no sound, recorded in the app itself. 19 200 kg of payload, well inside the legal mass for the rig — and a steer axle sitting at 103%.
Recorded in Anneira on demonstration data. Client names and tonnages are illustrative. The axle figures on screen are computed by the product, not staged.
Operations
The lifecycle is enforced, not suggested. A load cannot jump from booked to invoiced because somebody was in a hurry, and every change is written to an append-only history with the person who made it, the time and a note.
One trip delivering to several clients, each drop carrying its own client, pallet count, weight and revenue — so a shared load is costed properly instead of split by guesswork.
Client and client reference, PO and waybill numbers, loading and offload locations, planned against actual times, product description, pallets, weight, and the temperature regime with its target — ambient, chilled or frozen.
Assign the truck, the driver or a subcontractor with a per-trip rate. Revenue is recorded flat, per pallet or per kilometre, against the distance run.
Every load carries an unguessable tracking link you can switch on per client. Customers see the timeline; they never see invoiced, paid, or a cancellation. Rate limited, and off by default.
Fuel
Drivers photograph the slip at the pump. The office sees litres per hundred per vehicle, an anomalous fill the week it happens rather than the month after, and a card statement matched against the slips that were actually captured.
Drivers capture the fill on a phone with a photo of the slip. The office can capture and correct the same records.
Each vehicle builds its own litres-per-100 km history, and fills that sit well outside it are flagged for a person to look at.
Fuel-card statements import and match against captured slips, so a missing slip or an unrecognised transaction surfaces the same week.
Excel and PDF fuel reports for the office, plus alerts raised as data arrives rather than waiting for someone to remember to run a report.
Fleet and people
Licence expiries and services due are scanned on a schedule and raised as notifications, so the first you hear of an expired disc is not at a roadblock.
Fleet numbers, fuel type and active status, with workshop and maintenance access controlled separately from the office.
Upcoming licence expiries, services falling due and purchase orders going stale, all raised on a schedule rather than by memory.
Leave types, accruing balances, requests and an HR approval workflow. Drivers request leave from their phone instead of a phone call to the office.
Quotes, purchase orders with an approval step, and invoices — with revenue and subcontractor cost held against the load they belong to.
Compliance
International load planners have prettier 3D and more export formats. None of them know what Regulation 240 says about a tridem axle. Anneira is built for one country's rules and does not pretend otherwise.
Per-axle mass limits — roughly 7 700 kg on a steer, 9 000 on a single drive, 18 000 on a tandem and 24 000 on a tridem — applied to the axle groups you have actually defined for the trailer.
The 56 000 kg cap on a vehicle combination, applied as one of the four figures that determine permissible payload rather than as an afterthought.
The 2.6 m width limit, which is what puts two SA pallets across a deck, and the 4.3 m overall height limit including load, with a warning band below it.
Road Transport Management System accreditation asks operators to keep overloaded trips under 4% a month and to be independently auditable, and accredited operators have reported insurance benefits and preferred-supplier status. Anneira does not generate accreditation reports. What it does is produce the load-legality record that this kind of work rests on — computed per load, at the time the load was planned.
Capability register
This list is the shipped product. Nothing on it is planned, in beta, or coming in the next release.
Drivers already capture fuel slips and request leave from a mobile browser. A dedicated driver application is the next phase of development. It is not released, there is no download, and nothing else on this page depends on it.
Book a demo
A rig you have argued about, a manifest that never quite fits, an axle reading nobody could explain. We will plan it on a live instance and walk you through what the engine says — and what it will not claim.
There is no price list, because every operator gets their own installation rather than a seat on a shared one. Take the demo, and a written quotation follows it.