Qualcomm Macros - need advice

Depends on what company you are with, macros that one company uses isn't always the same as what a different one uses. Once you start doing them over and over you will start memorizing them. On the messaging part of the Qualcomm it will have your inbox, outbox and compose, under compose it has all you macros and description of each. Make a list of the ones you need to do on each load, or daily and once you start using them multiple times you will get it.

 

Your company should give you a index type card with all the macros and a definition of what each is for. It'll become easy as time goes by.
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Yep they're all on Qualcomm its just a matter of remembering the number associated with each macro. There's way more macros than you'll ever even use
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Most generally the main ones will be the number for the shipper(arrival and loaded), receiver (arrival) , mty at receiver, a dropped trailer, new trailer p/u. ETA and PTA

They may have one for a fuel request, breakdowns, survey of a company, directions to shipper or receiver

And there may be some you will never have to use. But it is always better to be familiar of the ones you don't use. You can write down the numbers of the main ones with a brief description of them. The cheat sheet is a help. A lot of time is used to put in the correct info on the right macro, so you don't want to have to hunt them down.

Qualcomms can and do go down and if you don't have this info written down you may chance not knowing where you p/u or deliver too. It is a good idea to have a notebook of some sort, I would recommend a spiral one, I pretty much use one side for each pro for husband;

Write down the pro order number
Any other purchase order #, or pickup # provided by your company
P/u date and time
Company name and address, city and state

Delivery date and time
Company name and address, city and state

When loaded write down the trailer number, weight, piece count (could be amt of pieces, pallets), BOL#,

Write down any other pertinent info you might need such as a scale ticket or lumper fee. A macro for customer dircections should be one thing available to you and this may have the exit # listed, preferred road to customer, if they have overnight sleeping sometimes, etc. Sometimes the road info may be for a different direction than what you are driving in from, it is just a help is all if you can use it to correlate the safest way into a place.

If using a route solution provided by the company go through and write all those roads down, either in a column or row. If you are company drivers in most companies it will be the shortest route on cowtrails that you get to go on and some roads maybe hard to pinpoint on a map. If you are lucky sometimes they may list a city you can use.

Write down where your fuel stop is and what hwy and exit #, Etc.


It is good to google the map, you may have to adjust it to their route. You can zoom into the businesses and see what the layout is. Google sometimes lies though and tells you a building is on the left or right and it will end up being on the opposite side, or somewhere else even. London, KY area is one that has things messed up real bad.