1st week almost over on my own numbers as a hotshot

Yes, dispatch yourself... You can sign up to dat/trucker edge for free month.. I assume you're flatbed.. if a car hauler you gotta do central dispatch..

 

It's a bit problematic but nothing hard to do really, just annoying.. It's mostly just annoying jumping from one program to the next. Essentially I upload the PDF to a online website that lets you edit PDF's like pdfescape.com. I do the edits save and download. I then upload that document to docusign.com and digitally sign it.

As far as copies of BOL's ect.. I take pictures of them once they are signed then I upload that picture to a img to PDF converter website like smallpdf.com. Again it's all a PITA to do but I do it..

What I plan to do, is I'm going to buy a Microsoft Surface Pro and that way I can just do everything include signing right on the windows based tablet..

You can do it all with adobe acrobat but man they charge way to much for it but maybe once I get my surface pro I may break down and buy it if I can't find a free open source option.

Oh and for creating a invoice I've just been using a online invoice creator for now.. invoice-generator.com

There are apps like Adobe fill & sign that work on android but to me it doesn't seem to work well.. Others say they have no problems with it but for me every time I try to use it on my tablet it can't find the PDF I just downloaded... it's really odd TBH..

Now I also have a generic copy of my insurance, my proof of DOT authority and my banking info all saved as a default PDF I can send over as well. Sort of like my own pre-made broker package.

The only thing I've really had problems with are cars, because you don't get a BOL handed to you by the shipper in most cases so you have to have some way to print or a way to let the customer digitally sign it. That's one reason I want to get a surface pro..