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notify

ark.send_load_location_notification

Sends a manual location-update notification for a visible load using configured tracking notification recipients and throttle rules.

Availability: Expanded preview
Scopes: loads:write
ARK permissions: one of: canEditLoadone of: canAssignLoads
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

citystringrequired

min length: 1; max length: 200

statestringrequired

min length: 1; max length: 20

countrystring

one of: USA, CAN, MEX; default: "USA"

latitudenumber | null

min: -90; max: 90

longitudenumber | null

min: -180; max: 180

timezoneIdstring | null

max length: 100

locationDateTimestring

format: date-time

Example request

Shell

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

Success response

Load location notification result

objectstringrequired

okbooleanrequired

api_versionstringrequired

request_idstringrequired

dataobjectrequired

data.loadIdstringrequired

format: uuid

data.loadobjectrequired

data.locationobjectrequired

data.notificationSentbooleanrequired

data.notificationResultobjectrequired

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
HTTP 502: External provider or worker queue could not be reached