Program & Funding Overview
A $1,950/year web license that gives your program a warehouse-loading trainer students will actually use · and per-student practice records you can export for reporting. No install, no lab equipment, no per-device cost. This overview assists your own funding-allowability determination; it is not legal or grant-compliance advice.
What the license buys
A 12-month institutional site license to a web-delivered training simulator plus an instructor program dashboard, starting on a date you choose, such as the first day of your school year or grant period. On day one the license is applied to your instructors' crews on the dashboard. There is no box and no install · the deliverable is browser access and a roster view.
- Unlimited students, one campus. No per-seat charge on the site license.
- The instructor dashboard: a roster of the students on each crew with attention-to-detail (load integrity), throughput (pace), follow-through, and safety-incident metrics, exportable to CSV with a license.
- The simulator itself is free for students forever, with no student accounts. A student joins a crew with its code and a name and PIN, or a personal code the instructor issued.
- Beyond a free crew. Any instructor can run a free crew of up to 9 people on the dashboard. The license removes the limit and adds the CSV export, a signed Student Data Privacy Agreement, purchase orders and invoices, and support.
The problem it solves
A CTE or logistics program has three needs this addresses directly:
- Evidence for reporting. The dashboard produces per-student practice data you can put in front of administration and use in program review.
- No lab, no risk. Real trailers, docks, and forklifts are scarce or unavailable in a classroom. LOCK IN teaches load rules, hazmat placement, weight balance, and pace with zero equipment cost and zero physical risk.
- Engagement. It plays like a game, so students actually do it · and 41 named load rules govern every wall, each tied to the code that enforces it, and every action is logged, up to 6,000 a session.
The Daily Challenge presents identical freight to every player on a given date, so every student in a section attempts the same problem under the same constraints · their results are directly comparable. This is a comparability property for formative practice, not a validated assessment; LOCK IN has no psychometric validation, reliability, or cut scores and should not be used as a graded assessment of record.
Pricing
| Option | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| Site license | $1,950/yr | Unlimited students, one campus, dashboard + reporting |
| Multi-campus | $1,450/campus | Three or more campuses |
| Founding Program | $1,450/yr | Early programs · this rate held while you renew without a lapse |
| Student course fee | $29/student/sem | Small college sections and cohorts (10-seat minimum); runs through your course-fee system, no procurement |
| Employer bay | $490/yr | Per location · warehouse and dock trainee practice and onboarding |
| Custom Edition | $4,999 | School colors, custom freight mixes, your facility's own procedures |
The $1,950 line is a single-unit software purchase under $2,000 · deliberately set beneath common single-signature and micro-purchase thresholds. Confirm your own procurement thresholds and applicable purchasing standards locally.
Purchasing routes
- Purchase order. F-Keys Creative LLC ("F-Keys") completes your vendor registration, provides a W-9, and invoices against the PO, net-30. The invoice references your PO number and matches it line for line.
- Perkins-funded requisition. See the allowability notes below.
- Student course fee. The $29/student/semester option is collected through your course-fee or bookstore billing and needs no purchasing office involvement.
If your award requires insurance, send the required limits with your quote request. The Order Form, Quote, and W-9, the Institutional License Agreement, and the Student Data Privacy Agreement are provided on request at vince@trailer-load.com.
Perkins V allowability notes
These notes are provided to assist your local allowability analysis under the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V, 20 U.S.C. ch. 44). Final allowability determinations belong to your state CTE agency and your business office. LOCK IN itself is not a recognized postsecondary credential.
LOCK IN maps most directly to the required local uses of funds under Sec. 135(b):
- Sec. 135(b)(5)(D) · appropriate equipment, technology, and instructional materials, "including … hardware and software, and other new and emerging instructional materials." This is the cleanest hook for a software license.
- Sec. 135(b)(5)(E) · a continuum of work-based learning opportunities, "including simulated work environments." LOCK IN is a simulated work environment; it is not a placement, internship, or apprenticeship and should not be reported as one.
- Sec. 135(b)(1) · career exploration and development activities, including comprehensive understanding of all aspects of an industry.
- Sec. 135(b)(4) · integration of academic skills: loading is applied geometry and arithmetic (volume, center of gravity, ratio, density, pace).
Whether transportation/distribution/logistics qualifies as high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand for your program is a determination your comprehensive local needs assessment and regional labor-market data must make; F-Keys does not assert it for you. Two conditions apply to any Perkins purchase: the funds must supplement, and not supplant, non-Federal funds (Sec. 211(a), 20 U.S.C. 2391), and the local application must show how the comprehensive local needs assessment informed the activities it funds (Sec. 134(b)(2)(A) and (c), 20 U.S.C. 2354).
Next step
A 15-minute look at the dashboard is the fastest way to evaluate it. Email vince@trailer-load.com, or try a wall yourself right now at trailer-load.com.