Trucking Software Advice Needed

Exactly right.

 

Anything you would "input" into the app should already have been taken care of.

 

A) getting out of bed.

B) weigh my truck, truck stop pro, Google maps.

C) deliver strawberry shortcake on demand. With FRESH strawberries, none of this canned crud.

Sorry for the snarky answers but it is a pretty crowded marketplace.

There are already apps for most tasks that work rather well. The major barrier is cost - getting the needed data and putting it into a useful form takes significant time and resources while the market of users willing to pay for thst service is small.

Our fuel optimization program is decades old and doesn't work the way we want it to. We haven't rebuilt it because the cost to do so would never be recouped.

 

So you would enter that a tire was loosing pressure, so it might fail this trip. Instead of fixing the problem? Would go for anything that you would input. Manufacturers already have spent a lot of time to determine the life of almost every part there is. If you think you can predict with any success when something will fail in the future maybe then you would have something.

 

It's very rare to see someone do a pretrip in the morning to catch pretty much the simplest and most common issues that occur with trucks, burned out lights and tire issues. Which takes less than a minute to walk around and check.

I dont think having an app telling these drivers to check this or that is going to really make a difference or energize any of them...

Your app to me sounds like its telling some of these guys it's time to spend money on maintenance, which would be a sin for them to do...