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What has me holding back on that idea is the question why the giant carriers haven't tried that yet. They have had gps transmitters in many cabs for years already.

Paul, I can hear you are just as excited about the auto-dispatch as I am. The variables you mentioned are definitely not that difficult to implement. We had done it for the most part to reduce lead time for taxi pickups. Our algorithms predicted when and where the next passenger will call for...

For a pomous ***, you write incredibly insightful responses :) . Thank you! I am going to digest this and talk it over with some friends. I do have a few questions about the QC, though. Does the driver initiate the location "ping" or does dispatch initiate it (basically, is dispatch getting...

Greg, That's exactly what I am attempting to figure out. Software for what? Our last project was in the taxi / limo industry and we built a fully automated dispatch (read: no people). A customer hits a button on their phone, their location data is sent to our server and matched with the...

On it! Just need to jot down your CC number real quick over here.... ;)

Whoa. How dramatic! I didn't intend to stir anything up. Well, yes I did, otherwise I wouldn't have asked for hair-ripping experiences in the business... :p Now, Turtle, you have said that which is obviously what I am myself most afraid of. Creating an irrelevant product should be left...

so what you're saying is that you're not all too enthusiastic about my questions on this board. Not even an iota of enthusiasm?

I am not getting into expediting, however, I am doing research on where an app, or other sort of software may have a market in the trucking industry. The post you quoted (+ my username) shows that I never tried to fool anybody into thinking that I am getting into expediting. Simply doing some...

opposed to someone that has a little clue about expediting, has intentions to get into expediting, asks no questions in order to make no app or something so they can lose money from expediting? I'd worry more about that guy :)

Simply great, astonishing reply. Couldn't have said it any better. Don't know how you do it. However, for a mere $29.99, the smiley software sold at www.softwareguysmiles.com will fix your:cool: ;)

I would like to hear you all vent! What are some issues that seem to happen over and over again when expediting freight (and how do you deal with it)?

We call that 'data porn' and the more we have, the happier we get :)

Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely. And I will do that research after presenting the more "optimistic" numbers to the people funding the project ;) Hopefully you'll be able to say the same next year about 2011, only "a lot" being "a lot more".

Looks like I found my first bite: http://www.pantherexpedite.com/documents/20061225_jocom.pdf "Including some next-day shipments, total 2005 revenue for expedited trucking was around $3.4 billion, a small percentage of the overall trucking market but a fast‐growing one" That was published on...