what trucking software(TMS) do you use ?
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DDL. And your favorite spreadsheet. Though lately I've been tinkering with a SQL database schema in a possibly-futile attempt to regain the IT chops I had when I started driving.
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DDL is a text delimited format, pretty easy to deal with if you want to put a mySql or a MSSql db behind it, I've done it and should update it a bit for the new version of ddl. I was using it for a while to to store data and put it together with engine and qualcomm data in one package. I could pull reports I needed or create files for taxes when I was on the road. -
Why? Because I can. I'm not altering anything related to DDL, just rolling my own database (Postgres, if anyone cares). It's therapeutic, really. I enjoy the process of parsing a data file into several tables and setting up queries and procedures to visualize data points or automate tedious tasks.
Ridgeline, I'd love to hear what you used to retrieve and parse engine data.Joetro Thanks this. -
Windows, Firefox and Open Office. That's pretty much it.
May it be noted I was a successful sole proprietor with pencil, paper, calculator, and payphones. Software is just a different route to an end goal.TruckDuo Thanks this. -
Hey folks, those aren't considered TMS software.
We use two different systems. Our main one is Sylectus. Mostly because the alliance and expediting business. I would only recommend this to someone I don't like or someone that really has the business model that works with Expedite. It is expensive and not user friendly.
Other software we use is TMW. We are on the enterprise side because it is what Covenant uses and we use it for brokering and managing our expedite trucks. Not experience with payroll side. But like the software over all other than being slow. But that is an issue with these systems in general based on what they are doing. -
The good thing about DDL, the guys who wrote the software are easy to ask questions and they have structural info on their website. They mentioned that the program does five minute updates but I found out that when you made changes, it also changed the cycle time with updates being unpredictable. -
Think I may have misspoke. How are you getting the engine data out of the ECM? Or are you somehow accessing it via the Qualcomm?
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