Truck stop faxing

I use the smart phone app "Drive Axle" to email all my bills. I've also used it to send documents to my wife.

 

it's not just truckstops.

the local kinkos isn't cheap either. and the rate goes higher for a long distance fax. i think it's more then truckstops these days.

 

I have an all in one scanner, printer, copier. I scan in gray-scale (250 to 500KB per page) unless color is requested.

Scan everything as I get it, upload it to the cloud, email whats needed, and file the originals (send them to my brother a few times a year). The load booking company deals with the faxing if it's needed, most places will take PDF files now. When someone is sending us a fax the load booking company scans and emails to us.

You can also shrink PDF's that have been sent to you, but they only shrink so much.

 

They didn't charge long . Charging was a foolish move . Increasing the number of coffees needed for a free one from 6 to 9 was dumb too .

 

What's a fax ? We Trans Flo bills . No charge to the driver and we get a receipt number for verification . Pilots have self serve Trans Flos so you can send it yourself and not be delayed at the fuel desk .

 

You can do trans flo from your truck. I do but only for landstar. More and more brokers are getting dedicated email address for paperwork. Blk & wht is the best fromat for paperwork and sends the easiest.

 

Trans flo works ok, BUT if you have an operation that requires bills sent asap it is just more efficient to be able to send them from the truck. Just finding a TS, parking, waiting in line for a fax, OR finding a trans flo that's working just eats up a lot of time and adds to a drivers frustration level.

 

i wouldn't think color would have anything to do with it.

because, aren't black and white also colors?

it's the document itself.

 

It has to do with file size.

Color will be your largest file sizes, then gray scale then B&W.

There are some bills printed on old style dot matrix printers that are REALLY faint when scanned B&W and need to be done either gray scale or color to be legible when scanned. Even a fax would struggle with them.