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Sharp Transit

Sharp Transit

The Power of Data With BOLT System, Sharp Transit finds new levels of efficiency Growing pains. They come with any successful business. And, for Sharp Transit, rapid growth meant staying ahead of the curve to improve efficiency, productivity and a healthier bottom...

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Eagle Transport

Eagle Transport

Milking New Efciencies There’s never a day off at Eagle Transport. BOLT helps keep the work flowing. Perhaps no one is in a beter positon to understand the importance of a feet management program than Howard Miller. Miller has worked for Eagle Transport for 13...

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Transervice

Transervice

Transcending Data With BOLT, Transervice turns information into action for its customers It’s a simple statement, but it sums up one reason why Transervice is so successful. “In our business, it’s never the what, it’s the why,” explained Joe Evangelist, executive vice...

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Split Loads? Dispatch Complexity Simplified with BOLT

Split Loads? Dispatch Complexity Simplified with BOLT

Our industry is increasingly complex, with multiple trucks and drivers interacting with a single load. Freight touchpoints are higher than ever before. The need for clean and accurate data increases exponentially alongside the complexity of your business. BOLT System...

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What Do Amazon & BOLT Share?                    Smart / Enhanced Dispatch

What Do Amazon & BOLT Share? Smart / Enhanced Dispatch

Today we are faced with a multitude of new customer requirements.  The Amazon Effect has established the benchmark that distributors and consumers now want their deliveries within 24 hours. While supply chain deliveries were expected to be made once per week, the...

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The Difference Between True Cloud and Fake Cloud

The Difference Between True Cloud and Fake Cloud

BOLT is the leading provider of TRUE cloud-based Transportation Management Systems.  It was specifically developed for the Internet and the trucking industry.  BOLT has all the characteristics and benefits of true cloud systems as they are described below. If you are...

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Drive Efficiency and Productivity with SaaS Applications

Drive Efficiency and Productivity with SaaS Applications

It’s said that 64% of small and medium businesses will commit to cloud-based technology as a means to boost workflow productivity in 2019. While a recent report reveals that 73% of organizations say nearly all (80%+) of their apps will be SaaS come 2020. SaaS — what’s...

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Why Web-based Software Is Better

Why Web-based Software Is Better

First, what is web-based software anyway? Web-based software (now known as Software as a Service – or SaaS) is software you use over the Internet with a web browser. You don’t have to install any CDs, download any software, or worry about upgrades. If you use an...

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Dive into Load Pooling as a High Volume Shipping Solution

Dive into Load Pooling as a High Volume Shipping Solution

According to Roland Berger, a strategy and management consulting firm, digital technologies have the ability to benefit the transportation industry in the form of more efficient logistics. In a report titled, “The Future of Trucking: Challenges for the Transportation...

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Benefits of Activity-Based Pay

Benefits of Activity-Based Pay

According to the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) annual study of the leading issues affecting the trucking industry, motor carriers, who made up 51% of the respondents, overwhelmingly picked the driver shortage, while drivers, comprising 35% of...

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BIG DATA: What can it do for me?

BIG DATA: What can it do for me?

In our previous articles we documented the many and various ways Big Data was created. As each week passes in transportation, people are discovering additional data pieces that they want to capture. GPS tracking and the recent mandate for Electronic Logging Devices...

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Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) / What are your options?

Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) / What are your options?

Electronic logging has been used for over 20 years.  A handful of vendors pioneered this device focusing on both HOS (Hours of Service) and messaging.  When the mandate went into effect everything changed.  Today there are a very large (and growing) number of devices...

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Innovations in Transportation

Innovations in Transportation

Press Release: CINCINNATI, April 15, 2019 — BOLT System, a fleet management and freight tracking software company, has announced a new mobile app for its customers and drivers. BOLT System, a fleet management and freight tracking software company, has announced a new...

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BIG DATA and Analytics

BIG DATA and Analytics

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DATA IN THE CLOUD. Trucking companies generate massive amounts of cloud-based data. By Jim Beach. Heavy Duty Trucking, April 2018. https://www.trucker.com/technology/elds-harnessing-power-data    HOW ONE FLEET IS TURNING DATA INTO...

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ELDs

ELDs

WHY SHIPPERS, NOT TRUCKERS, HOLD THE KEY TO U.S. TRUCK CAPACITY. The cost of loss of time in supply chains is huge, and a major factor behind higher transportation prices that have stunned U.S. shippers. The reason the supply chain clock is out of beat isn’t hard to...

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Driver Retention / Activity Based Pay

Driver Retention / Activity Based Pay

Press Release: CINCINNATI, April 15, 2019 — BOLT System, a fleet management and freight tracking software company, has announced a new mobile app for its customers and drivers. BOLT System, a fleet management and freight tracking software company, has announced a new...

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