Search “concrete pour tracking software” and the results split into two categories that have nothing to do with each other’s problem.
The first is ready-mix dispatch software — Truckast, ConcreteGo, FleetRabbit. These tools track concrete trucks: GPS location in transit, load ticket reconciliation, arrival time at the job site, drum revolution count. Built for the ready-mix producer dispatching a fleet of trucks to multiple job sites simultaneously. The concrete sub receiving those trucks isn’t the customer.
The second is general contractor software with a concrete module — Procore, Raken, Assignar. These tools track pours as project milestones: “Floor 3 East poured, complete.” The GC’s project engineer notes it in his schedule. That’s progress reporting, not pour tracking.
Neither answers the specialty concrete sub’s question: what software do I use to capture the pre-pour inspection clearance, the batch ticket for each truck, the cylinder samples as they’re cast, and the pour start and end time — at the pour, in the field, in real time?
That’s a different problem from ready-mix dispatch. That’s a different problem from GC progress reporting. It’s the sub’s pour record, and it’s built by the sub’s foreman, during the pour, before the concrete cures.
What the Ready-Mix Tools Are Actually Tracking
Truckast, ConcreteGo, and FleetRabbit are designed for the plant — not the field crew receiving the trucks.
Truckast gives the job site near-real-time data on trucks in transit: estimated arrival, load ticket details, pour performance. It’s a dispatch visibility tool for the super managing truck sequencing. It doesn’t capture what happens when the truck arrives — the slump test result, the concrete temperature check, whether the batch time was within the 90-minute ASTM C94 limit, whether the truck was accepted or rejected.
ConcreteGo and FleetRabbit are ready-mix fleet management tools. GPS tracking, drum rotation monitoring, load ticket reconciliation, DOT compliance for the truck fleet. Built for the concrete producer, not the sub placing the concrete.
The specialty concrete sub doesn’t need to dispatch trucks. He needs to document what arrives, verify it meets spec, and build the record that protects him if the 28-day break comes back low.
What a Specialty Concrete Sub Actually Needs to Track
The concrete sub’s pour tracking problem has four distinct pieces, each captured at a specific point in the pour sequence.
Before the First Truck
Structural inspection clearance. Every structural concrete pour on a commercial job requires a pre-pour inspection — the engineer of record or special inspector verifies the reinforcing and formwork before placement. That clearance is the phase gate. The pour doesn’t start until it’s cleared. The software that tracks pours needs to capture it: inspector name, inspection time, result, any deficiencies and how they were corrected. Not logged at 5 PM from the trailer — logged at the inspection, at the time.
Reinforcing photos. Before the forms close and concrete covers the rebar, the foreman photographs the reinforcing in place. Photo of rebar at key locations — bar size, spacing, cover — timestamped to before the pour. That photo is the only record of what’s below the surface once the concrete sets. Ready-mix dispatch tools don’t have a photo documentation layer. The sub’s field tool does.
Pre-pour conditions. Ambient temperature, concrete temperature on the first truck, wind, cloud cover. Captured before the pour starts, attached to the pour record. 90 seconds of logging that establishes the environmental context for every batch ticket and cylinder sample that follows.
Truck by Truck During the Pour
Batch ticket documentation. Every truck arrives with a batch ticket from the plant: mix design, batch volume, batch time. The foreman logs ticket number, plant name, batch time, arrival time, discharge start. If the batch time on the ticket is more than 90 minutes before discharge — out of ASTM C94 compliance — that goes in the record too, along with the disposition (rejected, accepted with inspector approval, or added water against spec and accepted anyway).
Rejected trucks need their own entry: ticket number, reason for rejection, who made the rejection call, what happened to the load. A rejected truck that went back to the plant is closed. A rejected truck where the driver added water and the super waved it in is the start of a structural dispute.
Cylinder samples. Compressive strength cylinders are the concrete sub’s most important field record. Each set is cast from a specific truck, at a specific time, by a specific person. The chain of custody that protects the sub when the 28-day break comes back low starts at the pour: which truck the cylinders were sampled from, how many sets were cast, field slump and air content at sampling, who cast them, which lab received them.
That chain of custody isn’t in a ready-mix dispatch tool. It’s in the sub’s pour log, captured at the time of sampling.
Pour progress times. Pour start, end time, finishing crew start. On large elevated deck pours with multiple pump locations, start and end times by pump location establish which part of the deck was placed when. If a localized strength question arises at the 28-day break, those timestamps tell the structural engineer exactly which truck sequence placed that area.
After the Pour
28-day break results, filed against the pour record. The pour log closes when the lab reports the break results — pass or fail, logged against the pour date, the cylinder set, and the floor zone. A complete record: pour date, inspection clearance, batch tickets, cylinder chain of custody, 28-day result. If the result fails, the record is already there for the structural engineer to evaluate. Without it, the sub can’t establish that the mix design was correct, the slump was within spec, or the placement conditions were acceptable.
What This Means for Software Selection
The concrete sub evaluating pour tracking software is looking for a field management tool — not a ready-mix dispatch platform and not a GC reporting tool.
What it needs to do in the field:
- Log the pre-pour inspection clearance and photos before the pour starts
- Capture batch ticket information by truck during the pour, fast enough to use at the site
- Record cylinder sample sets as they’re cast, with chain of custody
- Log pour start and end times by area
- Connect the 28-day break results to the pour record when they come back from the lab
- Generate a daily report from those entries that goes to the GC the same day
The foreman doing this on his phone during the pour — not reconstructing from memory at the trailer — is the one building a record that holds up when the engineer asks for the pour documentation six weeks later.
What Is Concrete Ticketing Software? (And Why Batch Tickets Are Different from Dispatch Tickets)
Concrete ticketing software in the ready-mix context means dispatch ticketing — software the producer uses to manage truck loads leaving the plant, track GPS location in transit, reconcile load tickets, and report delivery performance to the job site. Truckast, Command Alkon, and ConcreteGo are dispatch ticketing tools. The customer is the concrete producer, not the specialty sub receiving the trucks.
Batch ticket documentation is the sub’s side of the same transaction. When a truck arrives, the driver hands the foreman a batch ticket from the plant: mix design, batch volume, water content, batch time, drum revolutions. The sub’s job is to log that ticket into his pour record — ticket number, batch time, arrival time, whether the batch time was within the ASTM C94 90-minute limit, slump test result. If the truck is rejected, that goes in too: reason, disposition, who made the call.
The batch ticket the driver hands over is the plant’s record. The log entry the foreman creates is the sub’s record — and those are different documents serving different purposes. The plant’s dispatch tool doesn’t create the sub’s pour log. The sub’s field management tool does. When the 28-day break comes back low and the structural engineer asks for the pour documentation, the batch ticket log the sub’s foreman built truck by truck is the record that answers the question. The producer’s dispatch data tells the engineer when the truck left the plant. Only the sub’s log tells him what happened when it arrived.
For a complete walkthrough of what each section of a pour record needs to contain — and the specific field entries that protect the sub in a structural dispute or a progress payment dispute — see concrete pour documentation. For the broader software stack a commercial concrete sub needs — cost code time tracking, zone-level completion, and inspection gate documentation — see concrete contractor software. For how pour phases connect to the PM’s crew scheduling and strip authorization timeline, see concrete contractor project management.
See how LogLoon’s field reporting works for commercial concrete subs, or check the pricing — it’s on the website.