Truckload Brokerage
Where is it written that the entire brokerage industry must revolve around one website that posts loads? If we had a dime for every website that can
post loads we'd quit the business and head for the beach. So, what makes a good brokerage system? OK, lets start. First, it has to have been written at some time since the
Clinton administration maybe... even more recently would be nicer since Bush has been around a long time. It can't have green screen and shell into Windows. It can't be really
really ugly and make no sense at all. Sound familiar? OK, what should it do? Well, it should get you organized. It should make sense. It should help you match loads to
carriers and help you communicate with carriers. It should help you be a full featured brokerage company even if you are really small...like being able to take load orders over
the web or do email billing. These are just a couple things, but the point is, it should be a really big system designed specifically for brokerage. If you don't run any
trucks at all, then you should not have to suffer through some cluttered mess that was really meant for a trucking company.
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Menu Features
All Other Features are arranged neatly and available from one spot.
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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 those that are available and those 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 loads. Each gives
you the ability to sort up or down and filter in or out on any column, any row in the grid.
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Completely Customizable Dispatch
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.
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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.
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Freight Finder
Searches your customers and XpressTrax.Com to find freight from anywhere.
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Rate Finder
Searches routes and finds rates you've charged in the past and checks your rate matrices for a route matching rate.
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Assignments
Pick your carrier and Express will check for hazmat, Cargo and Liability insurance expirations and amounts.
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Accessorials
Assign your carrier additional pay items such as Fuel Surcharge or Extra Stops.
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Rate Confirmations
Has two customizable sections, can print blind or standard and can be printed, faxed or emailed directly to your carrier.
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Tailgate Loads
This unique feature lets you assign a load to an existing enroute load for those times when you need to
drop a partial onto the truck's "tailgate".
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Searching Carriers
Express will search your database for carriers to handle a certain route. You can even send email messages to the carrier from this same screen.
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Searching Profiles
Express lets you build a "Profile" for every carrier in your database. You can record fleet sizes,
equipment types and up to three preferred routes. Then, while you are dispatching, Express can search these profiles for you to find the best carrier to haul your load.
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Check Calls
Input check calls from anywhere in Dispatch and Express will calculate driving time to the destination and warn you if thecarrier is running late.
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Advances
Authorize advance checks from your fuel card vendor for carriers and track open advances at the same time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-run 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
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