For several years, FedEx Custom Critical has been a part of the Sylectus community. We are excited to inform you that we have increased our relationship with Sylectus to the External Virtual Fleet (EVF) level. Effective on 7/22/2013, our available loads will be posted on the Sylectus Posted Loads screen to the Sylectus carriers qualified with FedEx Custom Critical. We have heard from a good number of our carriers that the use of a technology like Sylectus would make it easier to do business with u s. Though initially there will not be direct integration with Sylectus for direct acceptance of loads and status updates, we are pursuing these items as well as posting our available equipment so stay tuned for updates.
FedEx Custom Critical has been around for a long time. Sylectus has been around for a long time too. As the FDCC email message indicates, the two have been doing business at a particular level for some time. That is not news.
Now FDCC is deepening its relationship with Sylectus, even to the point of working toward "direct acceptance of loads and status updates." That is news.
There are people here on the Open Forum who understand the Sylectus system far better than I do, but as I understand it, "direct acceptance" would mean that Sylectus carriers and FDCC could see each other's trucks and loads with the Sylectus software and dispatchers at all carriers working at that level in the network could book trucks and loads directly (that is the trucks and loads each carrier posts on the network).
In other words, a dispatcher in the office of a "no-name" carrier that has s fleet of 20 trucks and a small office in Iowa, could see FDCC loads in real time and instantly dispatch (with a single mouse click, as is done in the Sylectus system) one of their 20 trucks on a FDCC load that looks good to that dispatcher. The same holds true for the better known names in the Sylectus network like Load 1 and Bolt, for example.
It works the other way around too. A someone sitting at the FedEx Custom Critical office could see all posted loads and trucks from all other Sylectus-networked carriers in real time and dispatch them in a similar manner.
If I was a FedEx Custom Critical contractor, the questions that would be foremost on my mind would be, why is FedEx Custom Critical doing this? What has changed in the industry or with FedEx Custom Critical to prompt this game-changing move?
At the personal level, I'd be asking, in what ways can this be expected to work for me and/or against me?