what trucking software(TMS) do you use ?

What does TMS stand for? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

I tell my wife that I used to go anywhere in the country with nothing but clean clothes,a map,calling card and a roll of Skoal. Now I won't leave the house without my smart phone,laptop, and mobile brodband card. To heck with clean clothes,I need the important stuff.

 

Transportation Management Software - These are the systems that all trucking companies use to manage the company from dispatch, to pay, to tracking compliance. And the ones that work aren't cheap.

 

I see. Looks like hardware hackery is in order. Not my forte at all, I'm more of a Unix nut than anything. In any event, we seem to have completely hijacked the original intent of the thread....apologies to the OP and BigBadBill, I really did think that "tms" was just a casual abbreviation for something like DDL.

 

Well it is like anything else, the application of the abbreviation are defined by the users.

To me TMS doesn't mean fleet management but it means truck management. I have a pieced together truck management system for my own truck and my fleet, but they are two different things. The truck fleet is done with the idea of managing the profit and loss data to make decisions while the one for my own truck details all of my trucks operation from load and load revenue to food, supplies and so on.
I know about fleet management software too, but that's another story.

Now if you have an Unix background, the interfaces you need are easy to find now, when I started to mess with all of this, there were five companies making them and all of them were north of $1000. It is just a simple can system, follow the formatted data queries and you can get all kinds of info from the ecm and other units on the bus.