Bilty, kanta parchi, delivery challan and proof of delivery, explained.

A truck that leaves a factory gate in Pakistan usually carries the same handful of documents. Here is what each one is, who makes it, and what it proves when something goes wrong.

By Saeed Amin, founder of Rivo · 4 October 2026

The bilty (بلٹی)

The bilty is the transporter’s receipt for your goods. The transport company or its booking office makes it out when it takes the goods for carriage, and it is the main record that the goods were handed over. In English it is called a consignment note.

A bilty usually records:

the bilty number, which identifies the consignment;
the sender (the consignor) and the receiver (the consignee);
where the goods are going from and to;
what the goods are, the number of packages and the weight;
the vehicle number;
the freight, and whether it is already paid or is to be paid by the receiver on delivery — a “to pay” bilty.

It is usually made in three or four copies: one for the sender, one that travels with the goods for the receiver, one for the driver and one the transporter keeps.

The kanta parchi: the weighbridge slip

A kanta is a weighbridge, and the kanta parchi is the slip it prints when a truck is weighed. It shows the vehicle number, the date and time, and the weight. When a truck is weighed both empty and loaded, the slip shows the gross weight, the tare (the empty truck) and the net weight of the goods.

The slip is what settles an argument about weight: a shortage at delivery, or a bill charged on more tonnes than were loaded.

The delivery challan

The delivery challan comes from the company sending the goods, not from the transporter. It lists what is being delivered to one customer — the items and the quantities, usually with the order it belongs to — and the receiver signs or stamps a copy to say what arrived.

Proof of delivery

Proof of delivery is the receiver’s word that the goods arrived: most often a signed and stamped copy of the bilty or the delivery challan, sometimes with a note about a shortage or damage. The transporter needs it to be paid, and the company that sent the goods needs it to close the trip and to answer a customer’s claim.

Keeping them together

The hard part is rarely making these documents. It is finding the right ones again weeks later, when a customer reports a shortage or a transporter’s bill does not match what was agreed — and by then the bilty is in one file, the weighbridge slip in a driver’s pocket and the proof of delivery in a WhatsApp chat.

In Rivo each truck has its own record, and the transporter or your own team uploads the bilty, the weighbridge slip and the proof of delivery to it, choosing who can see each one. The bill for that truck is built from the rate it was awarded at, so the paperwork and the price sit side by side. See how goods transport runs in Rivo.

Rivo keeps these documents on each truck’s record. It does not issue bilties or weighbridge slips.