Give drivers choices about available loads while ensuring their success.
Gain drivers’ loyalty by giving them real input about the loads they actually want.
Become a preferred place for the best drivers to work.
Planning & Dispatch
With the release of Version 19.1, McLeod Software has introduced LoadMaster Driver Choice, a tool fleets can use to become the preferred place to work by giving their drivers the ability to record their load preferences, effectively requesting the loads that are the best match for those preferences. It also gives carriers the ability to offer their drivers choices about available loads when possible, all while ensuring their success with any load offered to them. For owner operators in those fleets using Driver Choice, it means their carrier is giving the driver better tools to “run their business” successfully within the fleet, especially when paired with the McLeod Driver Mobile App and the information that app provides about pay, and the ways it expedites the entire settlement process.
McLeod’s new LoadMaster Trip Management module gives carriers the tools to interactively plan details of trips with the driver’s input, and actively manage those trips while they are underway. Using a driver’s current HOS and position information, a trip plan is created and displayed in LoadMaster. Taking into account road conditions, live and historical traffic patterns, and driver breaks provides better visibility for customers to enhance the accuracy of real-time ETA at customer stops and actual arrival time at locations, giving planners and driver managers the ability to proactively deal with potential service incidents at future stops. Using all of this information to account for events, rest breaks, delays, detention, changing situations in weather, and even rerouting when necessary, allows planners to generate a significantly better dispatch trip plan. The interactive nature of McLeod’s new Trip Management module gives the driver the opportunity to be part of the planning process.
Driver Choice and Trip Management are two more tools McLeod Software is putting in place for the fleets who want to stand out when it comes to being an attractive place for the best drivers to work.
The LoadMaster Software Solution
Beginning with a strong core of functionality that every trucking company needs, the LoadMaster system comes with the ability to add over 30 vital functional modules and more than 100 mature, fully tested integration products for other transportation management and trucking industry solutions ranging from mobile communications to vehicle maintenance management.
Dispatch Operations
- Operations Management
- Load Planning
- Auto Rating for Loads
- Load and Equipment Tracking
- Driver Management
- Driver Feasibility including HOS
- Required Equipment Verification
- Managing Backhauls
- Service Failure Analysis
- Trailer Utilization
- Appointment Management
- Quote Management
- Recurring Order Scheduler
- Order/Tractor Balance Map
- Google Map Integration
- Mileage Integration (PC*MILER & Intelliroute)
- Market Insight
- Bid Management
- OS&D Claims
- Vital Signs Reporting
- Private Notification Network
Accounts Receivable
- Freight Invoice Processing
- Collections Management
- Aged AR Reporting
- Fuel Surcharge Management
- Cash Receipts Processing
- Miscellaneous Billing
Settlements and Office Payroll
- Driver Payroll Processing
- Driver Extra Pay
- Hourly Timecard Processing
- Direct Deposit/ACH
- Escrow Management
- W2 and 1099 processing
Safety and Fuel Tax
- Accidents and Injury Tracking
- Random Drug and Alcohol Testing
- Inspections and Violation Reporting
- Fuel Tax Management and Reporting
- Driver Logs
- Driver Recruitment
Accounts Payable
- Vendor Management
- Recurring Voucher Processing
- Check Processing
- Capture Expenses by Tractor and Trailer
- Bank Reconciliation
- Positive Pay Processing
General Ledger
- Account Analysis
- Manage Statistical Accounts
- Revenue/Expense Allocation
- Budget vs Actual Analysis
- Custom Financials
Utilities
- SQL Performance Monitor
- Data Import and Conversion
- Field Marshal Custom Fields
- Global Data Search
- Saved Queries by User
- Permissions Management
- Schema Editor
- JDBC Client
- System Health
- Document Designer
Key Performance Indicators in Action
The management of R.E. Garrison Trucking, Don Hummer Trucking, and P&S Transportation offer some time-tested strategies for making the best use of key performance indicators.
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- ACE & ACI e-Manifest
- Automated Driver Detention Module
- Breakthrough Fuel
- Container and Intermodal Module
- Dedicated Billing Module
- Document Imaging
- Driver Scorecard Module
- ETA/Out-of-Route
- FlowLogix
- Forms Recognition
- Fuel Optimization
- Integrated Mapping
- Internet Module (web portals)
- McLeod Anywhere Mobile Applications
- McLeod’s Carrier-Broker Exchange
- McLeod CRM
- McLeod IQ
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Multicurrency
- Partial Shipments Module
- Pricing Module
- Private Notification Network
- Profitability Analysis Module
- Rapid Alert Notification System (RANS)
- Real-Time Interactive Fuel
- Rendition Billing
- Rendition Settlements
- Responsibility Filtering Module
- Symphony Mobile Communications Module
- Telephone System Integration
- Trailer Tracking
- Workflow & Business Process Automation
Integrations
A wide range of off-the-shelf, fully tested and supported integration trucking and dispatch solutions are available for LoadMaster.