Who is in charge of loadboards anymore?

I have been on internet truckstop CLASSIC for 3 or 4 years. It was a really good site to navigate and very user friendly. Very easy to find loads, lanes and best of all save those searches. That all changed on Dec 16 2011 were we were forced into ITS2, (they offer classic 3.0, but its essentialy ITS2 that nobobly likes)

The new site doesnt log me right in like before, it loads slower than a porn site featuring molasis dripping off grandmas jugs in January, and it bogs down my machine to the point where I think I should hit CTR/ALT/DEL since nothing works.



On a possitive note, I recieved this email.....(grin)

 

C.H. Robinson wants you back? LMAO

I dont know why some people have trouble with ITS. Works fine for me, saves the citys I look for loads in and updates itself every 60 seconds.
Now what might slow yours down is if you log in with a name were its says "Handle/Name" and another user on your account is logged in with the same name it will slow it down.

 

Read it again. CH Robinson deacivated my account since I went a full 2 months without logging in to their loadboard site. LMAO

As for ITS, same user, same handle, still a PITA to browse/load/view.

ITS2 (and "classic") does work, but nowhere as smoth as the old classic. Not even close.

 

That you would know such a statistic is telling.. nearly as disturbing as looking for good loads on CHR

 

Not just you, I don't like IT2 either. Seemed to drag the computer to it's knees.

Just for a good laugh you should have kept CHR and tried to get a load for your step off them. If it doesn't fit in a van they're clueless.

 

I love ITS. Faster than any of the other boards I have used. But it seems to be a love hate thing with ITS. Could it be settings or equipment? But as I'm thinking about this, I'm sure if I was running with less than 4G RAM I wouldn't be as happy.

 

It's not so much the interface, ITS is a bandwidth hog. On 4G or enhanced 3G it works ok. If you're on regular 3G mobile internet it will slow everything down, get in a remote area and hit an EDGE or GPRS network - forget about it. ITS is loading a huge amount of table data and refreshing every 60 sec. I've suspected all stored searches are background updating - an article in the latest ITS magazine that just came in confirms it.

Not only does ITS not work well on a slow connection, it jams everything else up too.

Their engineers need to be testing the application over a bandwidth limited interface like 50-100 kbps, not the Gb port at their desk connecting to the server in the next room.

 

Red, thought you would be along to address this. I was also figuring it was amount of memory used as lady in my office was hated it because it was slow. I added 2G ram and now she is fine.

But I have found that I don't run anything else when I have slow connection and it is OK.

I think they are so focussed on adding new services that they don't stop and optimize current systems. They are rolling out CRM on ITS Dispatch. WTF, fix some of the features you already have in Dispatch before you add something else. They won't even talk about intergrating with Peachtree.

 

Personally I don't like the ITS or CH loadboards. They aren't set up worth a crap IMO. What gets me is if I put in a city and want to look at a 50 mile radius, it don't list them from closest to farthest.

I'm just thankful I don't have to look on them to often.

 

Not sure of the memory needs of a single browser instance for ITS. I suppose the scripting would be a little tough on a 2MB system, especially if other browser windows are open, along with email and other apps.

When I'm out of the office I'm running a Macbook Air with 4MB. It works fine when I'm using wifi at the office or 4G VZW hotspots on the trucks. If I bridge to my iPhone 4s on AT&T it does ok, but everything is slower to respond. ITS has hosed my internet connection a couple of times. Usually I can close the ITS tab and everything starts working again.

Reminds me of a project I had to do in my senior year at GSU in 99. It was a fairly simple web-based data tool that connected to a couple of Access databases. Georgia-Pacific, the company that it was for, specified compatibility back to IE 2.0 (I think the current version at the time was 4.0). I questioned that because there was a huge benefit in the scripting support in versions 3+. They advised that they had a number of remote systems at paper mills that were both really old and on dialup connections. They were unable to push updates, provided the remote system was even able to run the newer versions. With that use case in mind, we had to shift to server-heavy processing and limit the datasets that were being sent.

It's pretty clear that ITS developers didn't put a lot of thought into the carrier use cases beyond their big customer dispatchers sitting in offices on reliable, high speed networks.