PCS Software

LTL Dispatch

If your company specializes in dispatching LTL freight, then you are a rare breed and you work hard. We know it. we know what you do and so does our software. In fact, our system has never not had an LTL module. Since day one, back in 1995, we've done LTL . We give you excellent scheduling, dispatching and tracking tools that will make your really huge amounts of work look a bit smaller. In fact, we could just wipe out just about all that paper you have all over your desk right now... yes, we actually mean it!

Menu Features All Other Features are arranged neatly and available from one spot.

Dispatch Manager All your freight, all on one screen that also provides access to every feature within Express Dispatch. Loads are displayed on the the Main Dispatch Screen and divided between loads that are available and trips that are enroute. To work with any load, right click on it and you will get a popup menu giving you access to functions such as 'Dispatch Load' or 'View Stops'. There's a menu for Available Loads and another for Enroute Trips. Each gives you the ability to sort up or down and filter in or out on any column, any row in the grid.

Customize Everything Every company's operation is unique. Each dispatcher should be able to have their dispatch system look like their operations. With Express your dispatchers can literally design their own Dispatch Board. They can pick the fields to show, the order to show them in and even filter the information. They can save as many of these custom displays as they want and the Dispatch Manager will let them flip thru their saved boards.

Trip Manifest This very powerful screen provides all the tools needed to manage the process of adding, editing, dropping and arriving Loads, settling Trip Pay and managing Trip Documentation.

Trip Builder Easy to use tool for adding creating trips.

Trip Optimizer Once you have decided which loads you want on your trip, Express can interface with PC Miler or Pro Miles to calculate the total trip miles. You can order the stops yourself or you can let Express produce the best stop order for you.

Trip Settlement From one screen you can apportion load revenue between trips and then pay your drivers by percentage, flat rate or mileage. Pay unlimited accessorials and setup co-driver pay, even print detailed Trip Settlements.

Appointments This feature helps you organize and track Appointments at Shipper and Consignee locations as well as modify other stop information.

Hot-Keys Why pick thru menu after menu to get to the things you need? Express lets you can program up to 47 hot-keys that can access every single feature in Express from virtually anywhere in Express.

Tracker Status info, histories, current locations, check calls, hours of service tracking, mapping and equipment repositioning all from one screen.

Freight Finder Searches your customers and XpressTrax.Com to find freight from anywhere.

Rate Finder Searches routes and finds rates you've charged in the past and checks your rate matrices for a route matching rate.

Accessorials Assign your driver additional pay items such as Detention Time or Extra Stop.

Advances Authorize advance checks from your fuel card vendor for your drivers and track loan balances, escrow balances and unpaid dispatches at the same time.

Driver Messaging You don't need a satellite system to send messages to your drivers. With Express you can send and receive text messages and even send your driver detailed load information, including directions and maps. Your driver gets his own personal mailbox that he can access from his house, a truckstop internet kiosk and even his PDA.

Quotes Whether you issue a lot of quotes or not this feature will make your life easier. Create quotes from loads with one click or book a load from a quote with one click. Quotes can be modified whenever you like and they can be faxed or emailed directly from your computer to your customer.

Job Orders Repeat business, short term job contracts, all tracked neatly and cleanly, ready for rapid fire dispatching when the time comes. The Job Order system will count down loads performed for any job and give you immediate feedback regarding job completion.

Research Express never locks you out of your loads no matter how old they are. You can research loads as far back as you want and you can search in dozens of different ways.

Reports Literally hundreds of reports cover every aspect of your operation. All Reports are developed using Crystal Reports. Each report can be modified in many different ways. Each report can be changed and re-ran on the fly. Reports and any changes can be saved Batch Printing is available and reports can be scheduled for printing. Each category of reports is individually secured at the user level You can view as many reports on the screen as you wish Every report exports to MS Word, MS Excel, and PDF and E-Mail