Internet Fax Service?

I haven't used one, but search Google for "mobile fax service" for some ideas.

Also, check google docs. If the brokers can't email, maybe they still have internet access? With Google Docs, you can save those documents online, and give the brokers permission to view them. They can print them, etc. And it's free. There's also a way to view timestamps, so you can verify when they checked the document, and they can verify that you have updated properly. It's a live document, just stored on a web server.

 

Yeah just google this search "Internet Fax Service? "
The last one I bought was I think $30 to 40 bucks for unlimited license
The problem I ran into when looking for one was some had a yearly rate and some had an unlimited use program rate

 

I used to use "EFAX". I don't remember the cost, but it did require needing to have a SCANNER in the truck in most cases. Then you "email" the document to the fax number and EFAX would do the rest.

 

I have a couple of programs that I use to send faxes using a regular point and shoot digital camera. I can't recieve, but If I had a printer I could. I use a program called Snapter. Google it. You take a picture of the document, run it through snapter which cleans it up, and takes the shadows out of it, making it look like it was ran through a flatbed scanner. Next I use another program called CutePDF writer, which turns any document, including a jpg photo into a pdf file. What it does is add a phoney printer into your printers folder, and when you print a document with that phoney printer it outputs a pdf file. Whenever my dispatcher wants me to fax something, I just snap a photo, and in 30 seconds I'm emailing him a pdf file of that document. Cost: nothing.

 

Fujitsu ScanSnap portable scanner, laptop, Sprint aircard and eFax. Does the job.

 

Ya, I don't know why I didn't think of that, I have been using CutePDF for about 4 years now. It does a MUCH better job of sending documents that a FAX could ever do. Some of our "loads" require us to "fax" the temperature read-out to dispatch and the shipper. I remember once having to fax the #### thing five times, finally I asked for their "email" address and sent them a PDF of the mess. Oh, I "scan" the documents on my "All-In-One" using Corel PaintShopPro into JPEG format, then "print" as a PDF.