Every handover. On the record.
Cargo goes missing between systems: at the gate, the loading bay and the receiving dock. FreightProof records every handover of a road-freight trip on a tamper-evident public ledger, so when a load is hijacked or a delivery is disputed, you have the evidence.
Origin depot
Scroll to drive a sample trip from the origin depot to the receiver. Each checkpoint seals as the truck passes, in the same order FreightProof records a real trip.
Fingerprints shown here are illustrative.
Trip FP-0418
Cape Town → Johannesburg
Journey lock · SHA-256
9f2c 41ab 77e0 c8d2 … 51e9 3d1a
Anchored to Hedera Consensus Service at 06:12 SAST
The dispatcher commits the driver, horse, trailers, consignments, route and precincts. FreightProof fingerprints that commitment, so any later change has to be recorded as an exception.
Recorded and anchored: Journey lock.
The driver signs in on a company device at the origin precinct. Their phone position is checked against the precinct boundary, and a mismatch is recorded, not waved through.
Recorded and anchored: Driver and location.
The driver confirms the unit count from the linehaul document without ever seeing what’s inside. The seal number and the signed waybill are recorded alongside it.
Recorded and anchored: Pickup receipt.
Departure fixes the combination of driver, vehicle, cargo and seal. From here, anything that doesn’t match is an exception on the record.
Recorded and anchored: Departure.
Deviations and incidents on the road are logged against the trip with their time and position, exactly where they happened.
Recorded and anchored: Transit log.
At the destination, the seal is checked against the one recorded at pickup and the counts are reconciled. A broken or swapped seal is the strongest signal there is.
Recorded and anchored: Delivery receipt.
The receiver confirms delivery with a one-time PIN. No app and no account are needed. The trip’s evidence chain is complete.
Recorded and anchored: Chain closed.
Delivered, and provable.
Seven records form one unbroken chain. If anyone edits a record afterwards, its fingerprint no longer matches the one on the public ledger, and that’s visible to anyone who checks.
GPS knows where the truck is. The manifest knows what’s on it. The gate knows who drove in. None of them share what they know at the moment cargo changes hands. That gap is where organised theft works, and where a disputed delivery becomes one company’s word against another’s.
1,976 truck hijackings recorded by SAPS in 2023/24. That’s more than five every day, and up more than 50% in a decade.
420 trucks hijacked in the second quarter of 2025 alone.
R577m in reported losses across 2,670 cargo-theft incidents in 18 months, and that counts only the incidents that were reported.
Who did it, where, when, and against which plan. The trip’s position is worked out from what actually happened, never typed in.
The driver’s phone and the vehicle’s tracker report separately. When they disagree, the disagreement itself is on the record.
Each record’s fingerprint sits on a public ledger, so you can show a claims handler that nothing was edited after the fact.
Trip FP-0391
Johannesburg → Durban
The seal matched at both ends, so the shortfall happened at the receiver’s dock and not on the road. That’s a different claim, with different evidence behind it.
FreightProof started in 2026 as an Honours project at the University of Cape Town. It was shaped by a site visit to a working distribution hub and by people who move freight on South African corridors every day.
We kept hearing the same thing: when a load disappears, everyone has a log and nobody has proof. So we built the record that sits between the systems, so that the truth about a handover doesn’t depend on who tells the story.
We set up accounts for each operator. Tell us about your fleet and we’ll be in touch to talk about your routes.