Not Just Trucking Upgrades Its Dispatch and Accounting Software

Transportation company Not Just Trucking has replaced its outdated dispatch software and spreadsheets with a trucking software solution. Not Just Trucking is a Connecticut-based carrier specializing in the transportation of liquid products including gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, kerosene and liquid asphalt. The company also hosts fuel inventory control systems for third parties, offers instruction in commercial driving, safety and hazardous materials transportation, among other services. It offers services to all of New England and manages a fleet of 20 tractors, 16 gasoline tankers and 8 asphalt/heavy oil tankers with a dedicated crew of hazmat-certified CDL drivers and several office staff.

In the past, founder John Dwyer and staff had relied upon a legacy software system for dispatching, QuickBooks for accounting, and spreadsheets for various other tasks. "The major problem posed by our former dispatch software was that it wasn't kept current by the manufacturer," says Dwyer. "In today's transportation industry, software needs to be continually updated to meet changing laws and requirements, so at some point it just stopped meeting our needs and became antiquated." Furthermore, the spreadsheets were error-prone and did not share data, he says, leaving the office staff prey to miscommunication as well as data entry mistakes, lapses and duplication.

Dwyer began his search for a new software system to handle his company's dispatching needs and decided to adopt a solution from Prophesy Transportation Solutions Inc., an Accellos division. Prophesy's DispatchSeries software includes an interface to QuickBooks accounting software to handle all dispatching and accounting operations, as well as integrated commercial mileage and routing, fuel tax reporting, and driver management. Prophesy staff trained the Not Just Trucking team on site, allowing them to use the software in their live environment and get a true sense of how things would function after going live.

Dwyer has noted the newfound ease with which his staff is able to book and track loads, as well as an increase in productivity due to increased efficiencies. Using the software, he explains, one person can handle a workload that used to require three people. "It makes all our dispatching operations much simpler."

The integration between Prophesy and Not Just Trucking's existing QuickBooks software allows for the transfer of billing and other information between the carriers dispatch and accounting staff.

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