Increased per diem & demurrage costs with shorter free times.
Maximizing efficiency with your staff.
Long billing cycles.
Slow moving freight.
Optimizing utilization of your drivers and equipment.
…Requiring solutions that will work today, tomorrow, and beyond.
These issues are just the tip of the iceberg and the list continues to grow each day. Carriers need to address these issues to create a solid foundation and maximize efficiency in their operation.
Hanjin Shipping Company Receives Profit Tools Intermodal Technology EDI Innovation Award
Hanjin Shipping Company receives the 2009 Profit Tools Intermodal Technology Innovation Award for developing EDI for truckers. (more)
First User Conference Held in March for Support and Upgrade Service Subscribers.
Profit Tools held it's first user conference March 10th and 11th at headquarters in Lee, NH. (more)
On-Board
Profit Tools is pleased to announce the following companies that have recently joined the success among hundreds of peers in implementing Profit Tools trucking software:
Improve turn on receivables. • Profit Tools Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) technologies provide same-day data transmission for faster collections.
• Profit Tools EDI includes intermodal and container transaction sets for communicating with steamship lines and 3rd party logistics companies, and direct internet FTP capability.
Reduce costly mistakes.
• Manage and bill fuel surcharges, storage charges, and per diem. Let customers know about upcoming storage and per diem with system-generated email notifications.
• Monitor driver detention, get accessorial authorizations, and get paid for waiting times.
• Accurately track shipment status, locations of freight and equipment, and hours of service compliance.
• Avoid missing appointments by tracking container free time cutoffs and pickup/delivery deadlines. Track container releases, rail billings, and last free dates.
• Control container per-diem and terminal storage / demurrage fees.
Automate communications and tracking.
• Dispatch electronically with Profit Tools® MobileDirect™ for handheld communications systems, and interfaces to all major on-board mobile communications systems.
• Send automatic notifications to customers via Profit Tools® LiveLoad.net™ web tracing, e-mail and EDI.
• Third party vendors such as HUB, C.H. Robinson and other IMCs and steamship lines have offered the option to their carriers to drive all the required load tender, status update, equipment disposition, invoice and electronic documentation/POD functions directly from the Profit Tools system.
Improve planning and utilization. • Utilize drag and drop dispatch for fast, easy assignments of loads and drivers.
• Identify reloads and back hauls, improve asset utilization, and reduce bobtails & deadheads for fewer empty miles. Manage your chassis or trailer fleet efficiently.
• Improve load building, route planning and control cross-docking. Utilize tools for route optimization.
Streamline administrative functions.
• Manage auto-rating and driver payroll efficiently and accurately.
• Manage split billing and owner operator settlements.
• Improve driver file management, log auditing, and DOT compliance.
• Integrate with all major accounting packages, including QuickBooks®, Peachtree®, Dynamics®, BusinessWorks® and MAS90 for GL, AP, AR.
More effective reporting.
• Identify pertinent data for analysis.
• Achieve better measured results.
• Utilize management dashboards for real-time control and management-by-exception in your trucking business.
Superior customer support. • Knowledgeable support staff with over 100 years of combined experience in the trucking industry.
• Onsite and live-remote training and business process consulting.
• Experienced and reliable service team who will get to know your trucking company and its unique needs.
Have you met MO? In-cab scanning, printing, and computing capabilities.
Profit Tools is a proud member of the following industry associations:
Profit Tools builds business and operations software for commercial trucking companies who offer Intermodal, TL, LTL, or Brokerage services and Multimode operations who combine any two or more of these services. Our intermodal software capabilities address the full range of issues specific to container operations: free time and per diem tracking, chassis tracking, dispatch, billing, and driver settlement of chassis splits, yard pulls, crosstowns, repos, land bridge, live vs. drop and hook moves, local and road operations, reloads and street turns, transloads, etc. We handle your split third-party billing and capture the full range of accessorials and special charges that can be associated with intermodal trucking and container drayage operations, so they are a profit center, not a cost center for your business.
Profit Tools intermodal trucking software handles per diem, storage, driver detention, chassis pickup & return, stopoff, fuel surcharge, etc. Profit Tools drag and drop dispatch works together with our dispatch dashboard and load / reload matching capabilities to make planning more effective and profitable. We can connect your container operation electronically to customer and third parties via trucking EDI, automated email notifications, and web tracking. We can eliminate the redundant manual work associated with complying with multiple 3rd party vendor interfaces. HUB, C.H. Robinson and other IMCs and steamship lines have offered the option to their carriers to drive all the required load tender, status update, equipment disposition, invoice and electronic documentation/POD functions directly from the Profit Tools system. Our in-cab and handheld mobile communications capabilities, utilizing leading vendors like QUALCOMM® and Nextel®, enable you to get your drivers and dispatchers off hold and off the phone, eliminate costly delays and mistakes at the terminal.
We can handle back office functions like fuel tax and log auditing, and we have interfaces to all major accounting packages, including Quickbooks®. Profit Tools intermodal software currently dispatches 5% of all containers moved by port and rail in the U.S., and is used at leading companies like yours in every port and rail center in the country. We know that intermodal is different and more complex than any other form of trucking, and we help you manage those challenges, profitably.
