Congrats Bolt Express

**greg334** · 03-18-2010, 11:16 AM

That's a great thing.

BUT who else has this?

**chefdennis** · 03-18-2010, 11:19 AM

Any Alliance member can put the same thing up......how many other carriers have a plae where the drivers can see how many unit for their carrier are in a certain area, i know panther use to....

i mean they could use the same page, all they would need to do would be add a "synbol" to the Bolt units that the "clients looking at it would have no idea what it meant, but the Bolt contractors would a simple * next to the Bolt units would do the trick.....

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-18-2010, 11:26 AM

Eddie and I used to use that site till E-1 blocked their units from being seen somehow...

E-1 used to call us a small straight and the look at the dims and pick out the E-1 units...
Panther and Bolt call Sprinters CV's

**Steady Eddie** · 03-18-2010, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by chefdennis

When you use the Bolt site to check for trucks in a certain city and mile radius, you are seeing ALL of the alliance trucks, you can not break out the Bolt trucks....

That page is really for "clients" to see how many units are avaiable that Bolt has access to, as they can offer loads to the other carriers as all companies do.....

Id also love to see just the Bolt units in a given area....sure would make life easier...and save me calling dispatch for the info.....

Yeah I know, but he did ask to see the Aliance trucks.....just telling him he could. Express-1 use to be on it (until the cat got out of the bag), we could see our units by the way they were listed on the site. But, then E-1 took us off.....bumber....now we got the great Mac 19 !!!! Woohoo.

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-18-2010, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Steady Eddie

Yeah I know, but he did ask to see the Aliance trucks.....just telling him he could. Express-1 use to be on it (until the cat got out of the bag), we could see our units by the way they were listed on the site. But, then E-1 took us off.....bumber....now we got the great Mac 19 !!!! Woohoo.

ya see Fleetvision? they call us a sprinter now..

**Steady Eddie** · 03-18-2010, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by OntarioVanMan

Eddie and I used to use that site till E-1 blocked their units from being seen somehow...

E-1 used to call us a small straight and the look at the dims and pick out the E-1 units...
Panther and Bolt call Sprinters CV's

Yeah I know that Mr. Cat out of the Bag!

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-18-2010, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Steady Eddie

Yeah I know that Mr. Cat out of the Bag!

HEY that wasn't me....remember? it was Mr Dime...

**Steady Eddie** · 03-18-2010, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by OntarioVanMan

ya see Fleetvision? they call us a sprinter now..

That's what I is!!!

Here, ponder this for the rest of the day-

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?

**greg334** · 03-18-2010, 11:35 AM

Maybe it is me, but identifying the individual trucks by carrier may defeat the purpose of having an alliance of companies, right?

**Steady Eddie** · 03-18-2010, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by OntarioVanMan

HEY that wasn't me....remember? it was Mr Dime...

Wow! You are correct! It was good while it lasted......

**jdevidts** · 03-18-2010, 11:40 AM

Is revenue profit? Or is this one of the best ways to thank a carrier for managing to take the most of the unprofitable loads and pass them along to the owner/opp's so they too can share in the glory of running terrible loads for a silver star and a cookie. Show me the award for Most Net Profit increase in a year and i will be impressed. I am sure any of the owner/opp's who lost their trucks trying to run this cheap freight will feel better now!

**Steady Eddie** · 03-18-2010, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by greg334

Maybe it is me, but identifying the individual trucks by carrier may defeat the purpose of having an alliance of companies, right?

That's true, but having a little code for us would help...no one knows but O/O's.

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-18-2010, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by greg334

Maybe it is me, but identifying the individual trucks by carrier may defeat the purpose of having an alliance of companies, right?

I think what Dennis means is just the ID marker would be seen by Bolt only somehow...

Alliance...one big happy family right?

**chefdennis** · 03-18-2010, 11:44 AM

Yes it would if the clients were they only one looking..but for the drivers it wouldnt...i mean in MOST situations a carrier is going to dispatch a load to one of their "contracted unit" before they use an alliance unit....

If i can see that there are 6 alliance units in a certain area, but none of them are from mt carrier then if the area is a good freight area for my carrier i'll stay...but if 3 of those 6 are from my carrier, i don't care how good an area it is, i ain't stayin there.....just as i left the Detroit are and the toledo area this morning to dh on my own dime to the chicago area where i am currently #2 and by the time i get there should be #1 based on dwell time.....i had to call dispatch to get that info...it would be eaier for the drivers to be able to see it inline and save the bs from certain dispatchers.....

**OntarioVanMan** · 03-18-2010, 11:48 AM

My Gawd..how, how shocking...you moved on your own dime without asking for a handout? You actually are running your own business without a moving bailout! You starting a trend here? Mr Obama will get you...*LOL*

WTG Chef...U da man...