Carrier TMS Blog

Drive Safely This Brake Safety Week And How To Cover The Blitz Better Next Year

When you’re planning for the year August 22 - 28 looks like any other week. Even if you did mark it on your calendar at the beginning of the year, most carriers can barely look up from their desk today, let alone toward next week, next month or next quarter. Brake Safety Week, as a re …

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Trade in your Paper Stacks for a Tech Stack: Sync your Invoices with Quickbooks

Quickbooks is a square peg in a round hole if you're a carrier; it simply wasn’t built with you in mind. Quickbooks–and off-the-shelf solutions like it–are great for general bookkeeping, but don't consider the specific operational nuances of trucking invoices or payroll.

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Iffy on IFTA? Get Free, Instant Reporting Before The Q3 Filing Deadline

It’s September, are you prepared to file your IFTA next month? If this question makes you cringe, create an account, connect your ELD, upload a fuel statement, and instantly generate an IFTA report. We’re offering our IFTA solution free of charge in Q3 if you create a Kamion account b …

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Stop Switching Between Multiple Load Boards By Switching On Our DAT Integration

The technology revolution has created an insatiable consumer appetite for convenience. Whether it’s the all-inclusive resort, shopping at Walmart and The Home Depot, or your iPhone 12, people now expect to have everything they want and need at their fingertips.

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Tracking In A Nutshell: It’s A Hard One To Crack

We live in a world where customers check their FedEx and Amazon tracking numbers incessantly and monitor their GrubHub and DoorDash food deliveries in real-time. If these services exist for consumers and in such high demand, why is it so difficult to replicate them in the Full Trucklo …

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Macropoint Integration with Kamion Software

Kamion Software is a new generation truck management system. It allows its users to automate and integrate with almost every other software that has open API connectivity for true operation transparency and process automation. One example of that is our load tracking integration with …

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How complicated is load planning?

It is a shame that in 2019 load planing is still done for the most part by people. The process is quite complicated and ripe for being "digitalized", but it is hard to let go. While in 2017 the trucking industry finally installed ELD devices on most of the trucks, companies are not da …

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2019 International Roadcheck is Coming!

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Road check 2019 will take place on June 4-6. During this time, over 10,000 U.S. federal, state, local and Canadian provincial officers will perform Level I inspections. Inspections will be around the clock for 72 hours. The inspec …

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Key Data the ELD is Pulling and How it Affects Trucking Fleets

The ELD mandate requires that carriers and drivers move from using paper logs or logging software to a registered ELD. Companies using AOBRD’s will have two years to convert once the mandate goes into effect December 16 of this year.

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How You Can Benefit From the ELD Mandate Requirements

Electronic logging devices (ELDs) were established to digitally record a driver’s Record of Duty Status (RODS). In other words, they were created with the goal to replace the paper logbooks drivers carried to record their Hours of Service (HOS) requirements.

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