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Profit Tools >> General Carriers >> Key Issues


Common Issues Facing
Carriers Today

“We don’t know where our trailers are.”

“We spend too much time answering customer calls for status updates.”

“We need to dispatch and broker-sometimes within the same shipment.”

“We’re running too many empty or partially-loaded miles."

“The tractor registration ran out and we didn’t know about it."

“We need a better handle on driver endorsements and hours-of-service.”

“We could grow more, but we'd risk losing control.”

Order Management
> Operations & Customer Service
> Dashboard


Dispatching
> Dispatch
> Dashboard
> Brokerage

Billing and Settlements
> Auto-rating
> Billing
> Settlements
• Fuel Card Interfaces

Document Imaging
> Document Imaging

Communications
> Auto-email
> Liveload.Net
> EDI Direct
> Mobile Direct
> Mobile Communications Interface

Back Office Controls
> Safety/Log Auditor
> Fuel Tax
> Fuel Tax Interfaces

 

trucking, dispatch, transportation, LTL software Profit Tools knows the unique challenges facing General Carriers, including LTL distribution and consolidation, and general pick-up and delivery LTL services. From quick-matching capabilities for long-haul jobs and back-hauls, notifications with drop-trailer reports, increasing the productivity of your staff, to finding new revenue opportunities that will increase your bottom line, Profit Tools will help you accomplish your business objectives by offering a complete and comprehensive software solution.

 

Profit Tools gives you the ability to track every piece of equipment from start to finish with drop-trailer reporting, solving your headache of losing a trailer or trying to find one that is already missing. The Profit Tools solution offers easy-to-manage tracking tools to document where a trailer travels and stamps a date and time in the system to tell you how long it has been in a specific location.

Using e-mail notifications, you can answer customer questions before they call. The Profit Tools system can send an automatic email to a pre-determined list of recipients for status updates as their shipment moves. Or, if your customers prefer, status updates can be relayed through your website or EDI, giving you multiple options to distribute information and provide excellent service to your customers.

With Profit Tools, brokered loads can be managed as individual transactions or built into trips under a single contract, allowing you to manage payables by shipment or trip. You can also split loads or legs between your own trucks and outside carriers, reducing your risk of losing a freight bill or missing an accessorial charge.

Profit Tools quick-match capabilities give dispatchers the tools they need to identify in-route and back-haul opportunities. Profit Tools Route Manager/Optimizer can assign freight to routes and optimize stops into efficient routes.

Profit Tools provides advanced equipment alerts so you know when your registrations are set to expire, preventing accidental dispatch of an unregistered unit and your key shipment from being stopped at the side of the road.

Profit Tools provides driver alerts that warn you, for example, if you try to assign a hazmat load to a non-hazmat driver. With Profit Tools, you can also audit driver logs, maintain current driver compliance information, and print violation reports to keep you records up to DOT standards. This feature helps you identify and retain good drivers while keeping DOT and insurance hassles to a minimum.

Grow with confidence. Profit Tools gives both your operations and management teams the ability to accurately identify and track vital information at the click of the mouse. From streamlined billing, document imaging to reduce clutter and mishandled records, to automated communications to keep the field and the dispatchers all on the same page, Profit Tools has comprehensive solutions to help your company grow.

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