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How to Use a TMS to Ride the Market Rollercoaster

How to Use a TMS to Ride the Market Rollercoaster
In the trucking business, market volatility is part of the terrain. But in recent … So how can shippers use transportation management system (TMS) technology to help deal with these market swings? … As Jason Craig relates in his Transportfolio blog …
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Effective participation in the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2014
In the Enterprise IT Governance for Control and Value Creation workshop, speaker Phillip Sparks – Director Action Projects at HULT International Business School, and Jenny Tsuboyama eGovernment and Organizational Change Consultant and Facilitator at …
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Commentary: Target Markets, Efficiencies & Standing Out
He says the ideal will have a specialized need or interest that you can meet, it's easy to market to them, it's large enough to support your business and they have the economic resources to support your product. … To “turbocharge” your profitability …
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A Brief Introduction of Trucking Business and Its Operations

Transportation plays an important role in making our life convenient. In order to lead an easy and convenient life, we are directly or indirectly dependent on effective means of transportation. Trucking companies are among the most important and effective entities involved in transportation of goods. Smoother the operations of trucking companies, better the services, so nowadays trucking business is utilizing the most innovative technologies.

 

There are three main entities involved in trucking business, loads (that needs to be transferred), freight brokers (who acts as bridge between loads and trucking companies), and trucking companies (who transfer the loads to their destination). All these entities need proper technological implementation at every step to make their operations easy and convenient.

 

Internet Truckstop provides a platform to all these entities to come together and helps them in handling their work faster and more efficient manner. People can post their loads information here, and trucking companies can post their availability information. People can either directly approach trucking companies for their freight delivery, or they can approach freight brokers too. Freight brokers act as a bridge between them and help trucking companies in getting sufficient loads. They act as an accelerating agent in trucking business.

 

Apart from Internet Truckstop, there are different kinds of intelligent IT applications, specially developed to make trucking business smoother. There are trucking software for effective management of various business operations of trucking companies, and specially designed freight broker software, which makes it very easy for brokers to handle their business.

 

Nowadays, with help of web based trucking software and freight broker applications, people managing trucking business and freight brokerage business can manage it from anywhere.

Even if they are on move, they can handle all business tasks. Even one of the toughest tasks of filing fuel tax can be managed easily through another path breaking software called IFTA fuel tax software.

 

These web based IT applications are specially designed and developed to manage the trucking business in automated manner. There are a few software companies engaged in development of web based trucking and freight brokerage software, who are constantly upgrading the quality of their applications and offering cost effective solutions based on SaaS (software-as-a-service) concept. If you are among one of the entities involved in trucking business, you should give a serious thought over them.

ITS Dispatch has established itself as a leader in Trucking Software and more specifically, web based trucking software applications like IFTA fuel tax software. Get more information about Freight Broker Software

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