Small company looking for help changing the LTL industry

Hi, I work for a small company trying to create an application that will change the LTL industry. We're looking for a few minutes of your time.

Our application is designed to automatically select and sequence LTL loads filling empty space between loads you already have on your truck’s itinerary.

We have been working on our system for some time and we finally have something pretty amazing to show the world. The system isn’t quite ready for prime time yet because we still need a lot of feedback and have a lot of testing to do but we are able to automatically create itineraries and ask people what they think. That’s where we’d like your help and advice. We want to know what’s good and bad directly from the mind of the people who’ll be out on the roads. We would really appreciate your honesty.

Below is one of the itineraries we’ve automatically generated using fake load data (that data will eventually be provided by LTL freight brokers). If you don’t mind, take a look and tell us what you think:

A dispatcher or Owner Operator would provided us with a little bit of information like this:

• Itinerary Type: Round Trip from Akron, OH
• Trailer Type: 53 ft Dry
  
• Current LTL Loads (ones we didn’t find): 1 load of 7 pallets from Cleveland, OH to Flint, MI
• Maximum Requested Mileage: This individual is willing to drive an extra 99 miles, 610 in total

(Baseline Map - 511 total miles, 248 deadhead miles)


We generated this itinerary in about a minute:

• Itinerary Sequence
• Map Note: Points A & H are “Home”

(I know, Google Maps aren’t truck directions but we’ll get there eventually)

Itinerary Overview:

• We automatically found 3 additional loads
• Load B on itinerary sequence was the only load we did not locate. We filled in around it.
  
• Deadheading was reduced from 248 miles (48%) to 44 miles (7%)
• Total mileage went from 511 to 608 adding less than 100 miles to the overall itinerary

Tell us what you think. We’re happy to answer any questions you have.

All the best.