Fleet & logistics software in Chennai
Yes — LekhaPro's Fleet & Logistics pack runs a Chennai transporter's operations: vehicles and drivers with a compliance expiry radar, a trip → LR → delivery → freight-bill lifecycle on the core invoice path with GTA reverse charge handled, and per-kilometre profitability per vehicle, route and customer. And within Tamil Nadu, an e-way bill applies above ₹1,00,000 (100 annexure goods exempt at any value) — generated from the same consignment. Cloud edition, any browser.
What Tamil Nadu sets for a Chennai transporter
| Item | Tamil Nadu | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GST state code | 33 — first two digits of every GSTIN here | Statutory |
| Intra-state e-way bill | ₹1,00,000 (100 annexure goods exempt at any value) | Ntf No. 09/2018 Rc.46/2018/Taxation/A1 (31.05.2018) · ctd.tn.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Professional tax | Levied — Tamil Nadu municipal laws; collected half-yearly by urban local bodies | GCC Revenue Dept (TN ULB Act 1998) · chennaicorporation.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
The full Tamil Nadu compliance table — every state-level fact we track, with sources — is on the Tamil Nadu state page.
The Chennai trade, honestly
Chennai’s trucking is built around its ports and its auto belt: container traffic through Chennai Port, Kamarajar at Ennore and Kattupalli, plus a steady flow of finished vehicles and parts from the Sriperumbudur–Oragadam cluster. Trailer operators live by port gate timings and detention; car-carrier and parts work runs on OEM schedules that punish late trucks. NH-16 north, NH-48 west and the GST Road south give three trunk directions, each with different return-load prospects. For a fleet office here, container trip costing against diesel and toll, LR discipline across forwarder bookings and reverse-charge billing to shippers are the everyday mechanics.
What a Chennai transporter gets
- Vehicle, driver, tyre and freight-rate-card masters
- Compliance radar — insurance, fitness, permit and licence expiry
- Trip board with fuel, toll, expense and service-due capture
- Consignment (LR) register, milestone tracking and delivery challans
- Freight billing on the core invoice path, with GST and GTA/RCM
- Trip and fleet profitability — margin, ROI and cost per km
- Vehicle capitalisation and disposal through fixed-asset depreciation
- Driver wallet, allowances and a 0–100 safety score
- Workshop job cards posting to the GL, plus a spare-parts ledger
- Warehouse tasks, containers, multi-modal legs, delivery runs and parcels
- Cold-chain zones with breach alerts and a compliance percentage
Plans are ₹249, ₹449 and ₹2,499 a month — GST-inclusive totals on pricing. New to the terms? Place of supply decides the tax head on every invoice, and goods movements may need an e-way bill.
What it does not do — in Chennai or anywhere
- · The Fleet & Logistics pack is Cloud-only — it runs in a browser, not in the offline Windows desktop edition, in Chennai or anywhere.
- · No live GPS telematics integration — the model is GPS-ready and positions arrive through the app, but wiring a tracking provider is a documented seam, not a shipped feature.
- · No customer self-service tracking login yet — track-by-LR and party-scoped statements exist as staff-callable reads; a consignor portal is deferred.
- · It does not file GST returns for you — freight bills post to the books; submission stays with you or your CA.
- · No office in Chennai — sales and support are online (email and WhatsApp) from an India-based team, with no local branch, reseller or on-site visit.
- · No payroll, attendance or HR module — staff salaries and professional tax stay with your CA, in Tamil Nadu as everywhere.
Questions Chennai transporters ask
Does the Fleet pack work for a Chennai transporter?
Yes. Vehicles register with engine, chassis, finance and hypothecation detail; drivers carry wallets and safety scores; and the working day runs trip → consignment (LR) → delivery → freight bill, with fuel, toll and expenses captured on the trip. It is a Cloud pack, run from any browser, and a fleet split across depots runs on one set of books.
What is the e-way bill position for Tamil Nadu movements?
₹1,00,000 (100 annexure goods exempt at any value) for an intra-state movement (Ntf No. 09/2018 Rc.46/2018/Taxation/A1 (31.05.2018) · ctd.tn.gov.in, checked 2026-08-05); inter-state consignments follow the national ₹50,000 rule. The e-way bill JSON generates from the consignment you already booked — no separate data entry, and the vehicle number updates through your GSP when a trans-shipment happens.
How is GST handled on freight — GTA and reverse charge?
Each freight bill carries a GST rate and a GTA reverse-charge toggle, so a consignment billed under RCM shows the tax where it belongs — payable by the recipient — while forward-charge billing taxes it on your invoice. Which regime you are in depends on the option you have exercised as a GTA; the software bills correctly for either, and the election itself is a conversation with your CA.
Can it tell me what a trip actually earned?
To the kilometre: freight revenue against fuel, toll, maintenance, driver and other cost gives profit, margin in basis points and cost-per-km per trip — and fleet costing rolls that up per vehicle, driver, route and customer with a profit-ranked table. The Chennai lane that feels busy but earns nothing shows up in that table.
Does it warn before a permit or insurance lapses?
Yes — the compliance radar tracks insurance, fitness, permit and licence expiry across the fleet, which is the difference between a planned renewal and a vehicle idled at a checkpost. Tyres are tracked fitted-and-removed, and finance and hypothecation sit on the vehicle record.
How are drivers settled?
Through a running-balance wallet: trip, night, daily and incentive allowances credit it, advances and penalised incidents debit it, and a 0–100 safety score grades each driver safe, watch or risk. Settlement stops being a diary negotiation and becomes a ledger both sides can read.
What happens when a truck goes to the workshop?
A job card accrues entered labour and issued parts while the vehicle is down, and closing it posts a single maintenance expense to the General Ledger — backed by a spare-parts ledger with a below-reorder radar. Maintenance cost then feeds the same per-km economics as fuel and toll, so an ageing vehicle's true cost is visible.
Does it track vehicles live on GPS?
Not yet, and we would rather say so: the model is GPS-ready — a position sink, latest-position on the LR lookup, a milestone timeline — but no telematics provider is wired in this build. Positions arrive through the app; live device integration is a documented seam.
We also run godowns and last-mile — is that covered?
Yes — warehouse docks with an inbound → putaway → pick → pack → dispatch task queue, a container yard accruing handling and demurrage, multi-modal shipments across road, rail, air and sea legs, last-mile runs with POD and failure reasons, courier bags advancing scan by scan, and cold-chain zones that raise a breach alert the moment a reading leaves its band.
How do we try it on our Chennai fleet?
14 days free, no card. Put one week of real trips through it — book the LRs, close the trips with actual fuel and toll, raise one freight bill — and read the per-km table, because that number is the business. We sell and support online only, with no Chennai branch. Local context: Chennai’s trucking is built around its ports and its auto belt: container traffic through Chennai Port, Kamarajar at Ennore and Kattupalli, plus a steady flow of finished vehicles and parts from the Sriperumbudur–Oragadam cluster.