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PATCH /api/v1/loads/{loadId}

ark.update_load_details

Updates a visible load revision, including customer, team, reps, reference fields, commodity, dimensions, currencies, customer-pay lines, and optional full stop replacement.

Availability
Expanded preview
Scopes
loads:write
ARK permissions
canEditLoad
Team visibility
Required and enforced
Idempotency-Key
Required for this write
Approval
No MCP approval on REST API-token calls
Rate limit
API credential and organization budgets

Parameters

loadIdpathstringrequired
format: uuid
Idempotency-Keyheaderstringrequired
Required for external write operations. Reuse the same key only for exact retries of the same request body.
min length: 1; max length: 200

Request body

customerIdstring | null

format: uuid

teamIdstring

format: uuid

brokerIdstring | null

format: uuid

customerServiceRepIdstring | null

format: uuid

temperaturenumber | null
internalCommentsstring | null

max length: 5000

externalCommentsstring | null

max length: 5000

hotCommentsstring | null

max length: 5000

pickupNumberstring | null

max length: 100

purchaseOrderNumberstring | null

max length: 100

billOfLadingstring | null

max length: 100

productstring | null

max length: 200

valuenumber | null
descriptionstring | null

max length: 5000

sizestring | null

max length: 100

trailerstring | null

max length: 100

weightnumber | null
weightUnitstring

one of: lbs, kg

lengthnumber | null
widthnumber | null
heightnumber | null
numberOfPiecesinteger | null

min: 0

hazmatboolean
docHighboolean
stackableboolean
tsaboolean
teamDriverRequiredboolean
milesnumber | null

min: 0

maximumBuyAmountnumber | null

Maximum carrier buy amount for load-board and market-intelligence workflows.

min: 0

customerCurrencystring

one of: USD, CAD, MXN

carrierCurrencystring

one of: USD, CAD, MXN

Example request

Shell
curl -X PATCH 'https://arktms.com/api/v1/loads/<loadId>' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARK_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: <unique-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Success response

Updated load

objectstringrequired
okbooleanrequired
api_versionstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
dataobjectrequired
data.idstringrequired

format: uuid

data.loadNumberstringrequired
data.statusstring | nullrequired
data.teamIdstring | nullrequired

format: uuid

data.pickupNumberstring | nullrequired
data.purchaseOrderNumberstring | nullrequired
data.billOfLadingstring | nullrequired
data.productstring | nullrequired
data.descriptionstring | nullrequired
data.createdAtstringrequired

format: date-time

data.modifiedAtstring | nullrequired

format: date-time

Errors

HTTP 400
Invalid request
HTTP 401
Authentication required
HTTP 403
Permission, scope, team, or entitlement denied
HTTP 404
Resource not found
HTTP 409
Idempotency conflict or in-progress retry