To Fax or Not Fax, that is the question

Not a fully dying technology, otherwise printers wouldn't be made to serve as fax machines . . .

 

.... yeah, and someday it will be known as the appendix of technology, "I know it's there but what's if for?"

 

If I have something that's already printed, and a fax machine is handy, I'm going to use that instead of scanning it to email it. Depends on which is easier at the time of need.

 

all-in-one printers make it just as easy to scan to email. It's a matter of learning to use the technology.

 

I've spent a lot of time on the road, flying overseas for weeks at a time on business. Getting to a fax machine or a scanner consistently would require either carrying a travel model (HEAVY) or getting to a hotel business center (EXPENSIVE and inconvenient). I ended up more times than not simply taking a picture of the page with my cell phone and sending it as an e-mail attachment or uploading it to a secure share site. Pretty soon that habit had the added benefit of having a searchable database of files I could access anywhere and anytime.

 

my all in one doesn't make it easy to scan into email. i have to scan each copy. save it. then attach it to email. one by one.

my email app allows me to scan and it will automatically attach. but if i have more then one copy. the next copy overrides the previous copy.

i prefer the fax app. scan everything. input number and hit send. no saving and attaching.

 

I dunno about you guys but I still have a crap load of brokers I have to mail my original BOL's into before I get paid. Fax87.com is a great eFax site. Cheap and easy to use. Guess the people I deal with aren't as fancy as Landstar and the likes.

 

Then again, a lot of these brokers (and trucking companies), that want you to mail in the hard copies are simply trying to float a few more days of not paying you. For independents that are choosing a load I think that would be high on my list of priorities regarding whether or not I accept a load.

 

It is....

do you are do you not accept scanned emailed copies of the POD or BOL?

 

Mailing BOLs, and the additional time to get paid just factors into what rate I'll do the load for.