204 Motor Carrier Load Tender
Kinexo · X12 005010
Kinexo’s published 204 specification, rendered as an interactive guide. Expand any segment to see its elements, data types, lengths and accepted codes — then validate your own document against it below.
Specification
26 of 26 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header ST
pos 0100
Optional
max —
B2
Beginning Segment For Shipment Information Transaction B2
pos 0200
Required
max —
B2A
Set Purpose B2A
pos 0300
Required
max —
L11
Business Instructions And Reference Number L11
The load number from our TMS system will begin with an “L”. (i.e.:L100850).
pos 0800
Optional
max 99999
G62
Date Time G62
The EDI 204 must be responded to with an EDI 990 or via the KINEXO carrier portal within 2 hours of the date/time on the EDI 204.
Cancellation 204's will be sent and the load tendered to another carrier if the response has not been received within the cancellation date/time.
pos 0900
Optional
max —
NTE
Note Special Instruction NTE
pos 1300
Optional
max 10
0100 Looprepeats 5
N1
Party Identification N1
pos 1400
Required
max —
N2
Additional Name Information N2
pos 1500
Optional
max —
N3
Party Location N3
pos 1600
Optional
max 2
N4
Geographic Location N4
pos 1700
Optional
max —
G61
Contact G61
pos 1900
Optional
max 3
DETAIL
0300 Looprepeats 999required
S5
Stop Off Details S5
Note:
The EDI 204 will contain at least one S5-LD and one S5-UL.
LD = Load Stop
UL = Unload Stop
Below are all the possible 204 stop sequence combinations that you should expect:
1. SS1 - Single probill/Single pickup/Single delivery (LD - UL)
2. SS2 - Multiple probills/Single pickup/Single delivery (LD - UL)
3. SM - Multiple probills/Single pickup/Multiple deliveries (LD - UL+)
4. MS - Multiple probills/Multiple pickups/Single delivery (LD+ - UL)
5. MM - Multiple probills/Multiple pickups/Multiple deliveries (LD+ - UL+)
pos 0100
Required
max —
L11
Business Instructions And Reference Number L11
Please return the L11 CR - Customer Reference Numbers and the L11 PO KINEXO Customer PO Number
in the EDI 214s for the correct and corresponding stops.
Carrier should expect one or more reference numbers to be sent.
pos 0200
Optional
max 99999
G62
Date Time G62
Carrier's EDI program should allow for all possible G62 Date Time formats to be sent from KINEXO.
pos 0300
Required
max 3
NTE
Note Special Instruction NTE
pos 0650
Optional
max 20
0310 Looprepeats 1
N1
Party Identification N1
KINEXO requests that the address data sent on the EDI 204 is sent back on the EDI 214 from the carrier.
The N103 and N104 will not be sent on some EDI 204's from KINEXO.
pos 0700
Required
max —
N2
Additional Name Information N2
pos 0800
Optional
max —
N3
Party Location N3
pos 0900
Optional
max 2
N4
Geographic Location N4
pos 1000
Optional
max —
G61
Contact G61
pos 1200
Optional
max 3
0350 Looprepeats 99999
OID
Order Information Detail OID
Note that the OID-05 "Quantity" element, the OID-07 "Weight" element, and OID-09 "Volume" element are
NOT mandatory elements in the KINEXO EDI 204. Be prepared to receive and process some KINEXO EDI
204's without the OID-05, OID-07 and/or the OID-09 elements populated.
KINEXO does not populate the OID-01 or OID-03 elements.
pos 1500
Required
max —
LAD
Lading Detail LAD
The LAD segment is NOT a mandatory segment from KINEXO. If the KINEXO TMS has the pallet count
field populated then it will be transmitted in this LAD segment. The carrier should anticipate some
KINEXO 204's will be sent with the LAD-02 element populated with a quanitity of "0".
One or more LAD segments will be sent per S5 stop depending upon how many PO's are on the stop.
pos 1800
Optional
max 99999
0360 Looprepeats 99999
L5
Description Marks And Numbers L5
KINEXO uses the L5 segment to transmitt commodity information.
pos 1900
Required
max —
0380 Looprepeats 10
N7
Equipment Details N7
The N7 segment is optional. It will only be sent if it is available at the time the EDI 204 generates from the Kinexo TMS system.
pos 2100
Required
max —
SUMMARY
L3
Total Weight And Charges L3
L3-03 will contain the freight rate amount (R2 format).
L3-05 contains the total charges including accessorials (N2 format).
L3-06 contains only the accessorial charges (N2 format).
(Subtract L3-06 from L3-05 for freight only amount)
pos 0100
Optional
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer SE
pos 0200
Optional
max —
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