From a broker- tracking your truck?

Unless I were dedicated to a particular broker or shipper, I would be providing GPS info from my own system. As for offering me loads, well the phone and email already operational work just fine for that. I don't see the free GPS unit or phone app being a workable solution for folks who run for multiple shippers/carriers. If I'm working for someone else at a given time, you've got no claim to my whereabouts. Who knows, I could be hauling for your competition and loving it!

 

I offer satellite tracking on my webpage. Doesn't seem to get me any better rates, but customers love it and I have control of location sharing...

 

If all of the brokerages got together and agreed on one system (good luck with that) then I would say maybe you're onto something. I work with quite a number of different brokerages so having a tracker from each one would be quite prohibitive. But I would want access restricted so that only the broker that I am hauling for could see it, I really don't want to get set up for a hijacking.

 

If I agree to pull a load, it's full go. I handle everything. Shipper, receiver, appointments. Everything. I've pulled many a million dollar load, a few $20+mil and one $60mil. I've pulled loads where the shipper installed at tracking device. The problem comes in when you have a Deskjockey, monitoring the shipment decide to call the receiver and reschedule an appointment because she didn't think I would make it in time. So I get there early and the receiver tells me about a phone call.

There's more than privacy involved. I've never dropped the ball..if I tell you I will be there at 0800 tomorrow, bet on me being early. If a shipper wants to put a tracking device on his load, that's his prerogative. But I had a broker reschedule a delivery on me (because she didn't think I could make it) and suddenly, there's tension between me and the receiver. The receiver cancelled the crane until 2 days later as per her instruction. The receiver wants his load, and I want $2k a day detention for sitting on a load in Canada.

 

This guy and Dannythetrucker have the answer. They have there #### together.

 

I shamelessly stole his idea: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/live-web-tracking.289316

 

sounds like CHR . LOL. i got one load from them and they called me 4 times in one day, wasnt the same person each time, but still 4 times in a day. then they tell me to be safe out there and im thinking i would if you would quit calling me and distracting me while im driving .

 

To the OP, why do you not call the shipper 4 times in 3 hours seeing if the guys in the warehouse are still on break and when are they coming back, and why the truck isn't loaded yet?

When you hand off the load to the latest computer jockey that you hired from the temp service that morning, is there any reason they can't check Google Maps to see if there are / were any delays en route, call the receiver to confirm that the 9:00AM appt you gave the driver yesterday is the same thing that the morning shift has on there paperwork and the same thing the security guard who started last week has on his paperwork? Perhaps call the receiver to confirm that it was unloaded?

I am sure shippers / receivers would find this annoying....just as the truckers find it completely ridiculous that you need to track a load every 2.5 hours.

 

All these check calls and route updates. Then you arrive at receiver and your told to park over there, and someone will knock on your door in 5 hours when we have a door ready...