Today's Freight Brokering Load-Boards

Current online freight-brokerage software is loaded with lots of useful features and options that brokers use on daily basis in their work methods. It does not require installation of any sort and you can use it from anywhere at any time. Basically, you can generate quotes from Carriers ON THE GO. It is secure, professional and keeps you in complete control of your freight management. With proper usage you can achieve professional results and accomplish your work in a very short period of time.

With a simple registration to one of these online applications (some of them are completely free for Shippers and Brokers), you will gain access to post your loads, describe them in detail, search trucking companies, inquire rates and many more practical functions of your daily work routine, without spending all your time on the phone calling carriers over the phone. Once you decide the load-board of your choice, all you need to do is to subscribe, log-in and start posting your loads.

These applications run on all computer platforms with no problems. The programs and their functionality defers from each other, so before you decide to join any load-board out there, you should first read about the features and options they offer. Some of these programs are truly packed with stuff you need on daily basis. You can create list of your Preferred carriers and post private load-listings only for them, automatically document all correspondence between you and the carriers, keep track of your posted loads, create hundreds of listing templates (not to waste your time on repetitive load entries), received online quotes, create administrative reports, invoicing, etc.

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An Online Load-Board – The Ultimate Solution for Freight Brokers and Carriers

In today’s fast paced Freight Industry and its ever-changing environment, the challenge almost every freight broker faces is to balance the time between quickly covering the available freight with the right carriers and following leads which will bring new business to the company. Well, it really is a “Catch 22”. In the past few years many online load-boards have been somewhat helpful to freight brokers on one side and freight carriers on the other, in replacing a portion of their “freight and truck chase battle” over the phone. However, utilizing these load-boards also opens the door to hundreds of available truckers enabling them to call brokers back with inquiries about more details regarding the posted freight. This phenomenon creates excessive volumes of inbound phone calls, putting the broker in the unfortunate position of having to spend more time on the phone with truck drivers than calling new prospects and getting new freight-lanes.

Now, this begs the question: How can a broker avoid spending so much time on the phone with truckers (without alienating these hard-working guys on the road) and at the same time, focus on the rest of his/her agenda for the day?
Well, a group of freight transportation experts challenged this very problem almost five years ago and set out on a journey to bring us the ultimate answer to this question. After 4 long years of research and development, they developed a unique turnkey online application specialized for the Freight Brokerage Industry, called Cargo Success. They managed to include everything that was already automated and offered by other load-boards on the market, but more importantly integrated virtually all human factors and methods of manual work involved in the everyday “Freight posting” and “Truck booking” process.
Let’s see what this on-line application brings to the table and what the concerned parties can now achieve with it, that they previously couldn’t:


Broker
- Can schedule and post available freight and receive online rates/quotes in an “Auto-Pilot” mode (avoiding the excessive volume of inbound calls, while concentrating on other tasks)
- Can get back to the postings at a later time, quickly review submitted quotes and decide who to give the available loads to, with a few clicks of a mouse
- Can send order information to the selected carrier(s) of choice (again, with a single click of a mouse)
- Can leave feedback and comments about the carrier


Carrier
- Can find available freight described in detail
- Can submit online quotes to multiple listings (along with attached authorities, whenever required) and retract previously submitted quotes (if a better offer is found elsewhere)
- Once awarded with a load, can receive order information to execute the load
- Can leave feedback and comments about the broker

Has this unique application truly conquered the problem and provided a solution to improving the Broker’s Time and Resource Management, as it claims? Well, it is up to you to decide.

Kim Ban,
Marketing Director
Cargo Success

www.cargosuccess.com

Book Trucks & Find Freight - Fast!

Imagine, if you will, that you are a manufacturer with a shipping department. You produce the equivalent of three truckloads per day bound for Western Canada. At the end of the day, you’re shipping staff have made up the pallets for three routes to a total of eight distribution centers. You have software that automates the load-posting task to the extent that each posting takes only two minutes on the computer keyboard. You make or receive no phone calls, send or receive no faxes or emails.

It’s fait accompli; nothing left to do but check out the online received bids the carriers submitted to you meanwhile and choose who do you want to give the loads to. The venue is here and now, except that instead of buying the software you merely go online with a password. Every single nuance of a "Broker-Carrier correspondence" that you can think of, including terms and conditions, real-time bid retraction, delay and late charges, if any, is molded in a easy to use interface, containing of drop-down boxes and short fields” said Mr. Dan Kockovski, founder and owner of the Cargo Success online freight Community.

His highly motivated investment in software development continues to draw Freight-Broker and Carrier members and gets better with each upgrade. Kockovski and his staff have no direct link with the logistics of millions of dollars worth of shipping and distribution except for customer service to the use of the online system. “I can’t tell you how much time, labor, file preparation, paperwork, phone calls, faxing, emailing and letter-writing is saved utilizing this simple-to-use system” he says.

It’s amazing, when you consider that a broker’s staff of five or six may feel exhausted after negotiating about 25-30 loads and handling a hundred or more phone calls, whereas a single person would be all you need for that volume on our system. Think of how much “these telephone-service people” could do for sales and business development instead. Carriers can find a lot more available loads and actually can submit hundreds of online quotes per day, over a 24/7 time frame if they like.

There are a lot of What-Ifs in the trucking business, and not only have our software
developers translated them to a simple online application interface. The Shippers and Brokers using the also system can make up to 500 different templates to prevent repetitive online inputs, or they can merely change a posting date, enter detailed information for each individual stop and even freight-handling cautions and personal messages. Brokers post load-listings and terms to all or just their preferred carriers, and they instantly become available to Carrier-members, who in turn submit their bids, along with their attached authorities".

With our system, the Carriers can even process and send their invoice to the Shippers with a single click of a mouse. Great pains have been taken to ensure security for the automated correspondence that passes between Carriers and Brokers / Shippers, he added. Our Order Management Reporting side of the system can be also accessed online and at any time, to show completed and outstanding loads. Since all files and correspondence documentation is saved on Cargo Success’s servers, there can be no misunderstandings between Broker and Carrier. Kockovski calls it a Giant Leap over whatever has been automated out there in the truck and freight booking industry, and not only did his development team design the software precisely for that purpose but they constantly monitor their competitors for signs of progress.

In fact, Kockovski’s creative idea is reminiscent of a Mississauga Broker-Shipper Frank Prosia of Trans-Pro Logistics, who pioneered a route-planning system, mainly telephone-based, which helped independent truckers fill their trailers and eliminate empty “runs”.

Cargo Success software generates and saves email trails on Impenetrable hard drives, and this data-storage mandate has prompted several upgrades to the company’s servers. The Just-In-Time delivery system that has saved users and distribution centres millions in storage and handling costs was ready for the Cargo Success brand of logistics software, said Kockovski. It fits right in, because the Broker’s or Shipper’s posting specifies precise times and alternatives of each load.

Both Shippers/Brokers and Carriers, in the system receive their own profile ratings automatically based on feedback and comments posted directly by previous dealings with other members on this freight community. A load can be awarded to the shipper’s or broker’s preferred carrier with one mouse click. He is also planning a move into e-customs upgrades to the software, “and other planned add-ons, including satellite tracking and mobile access.

To show proof of concept to the industry, the company now is offering free memberships to Shippers/Brokers and symbolic membership terms to the Carriers.

Original article, published September 2009; source Mississauga Business Times.

Kim Ban,
Marketing Director
Cargo Success

www.cargosuccess.com

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