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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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
SaaS Delivers the Safest, Most Secure Method of Doing Business
There’s a lot of talk about viruses these days. Prior to COVID-19, when you heard the word "virus," most of us thought about our computers. Cyber-security terminology has borrowed from the biological world because of the similar ways that viruses spread. Both rely on...
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...
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...
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...
BOLT System Offers Flexibility In Fleet Management System Streamlines Activity-Based Pay
Developing a fleet management program is a never-ending process. And that’s a good thing, so says Jerry Robertson, chief technology officer for BOLT System. “The trucking industry is very liquid and ever-changing,” he says. “We’re changing as well by building...
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...
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...
Big Data – What is it? Where does it come from? What do I do with it?
One of the latest buzz words in the industry over the last couple of years is BIG DATA. But how many of us truly understand what this means and more importantly, the impact that it can have on us – both personally and professionally. The amount of data in the world is...
Omnichannel Logistics Puts the Focus on Partnerships and Data Integration
In an age of instant gratification, consumers expect they can get what they want, when they want, how they want it. Retailers are responding to the demand with an omnichannel approach that provides a consistent shopping experience across a variety of channels: online,...
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...
Can You Compete with Amazon? Let Freight Tracking Data Be Your Guide
“I just now purchased a storage shed for my backyard off of Amazon — and it’s expected to arrive TOMORROW! Plus, there was free shipping! “ How is a common freight shipper supposed to compete with that!? In reality, you probably can’t “compete” with that kind of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BOLT System Can Help Carriers Meet Pending Federal Sanitary Transportation Regulation
BOLT System Can Help Carriers Meet Pending Federal Sanitary Transportation Regulation NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12, 2017 – For those fleets and carriers hauling perishable food that must meet a new federal regulation requiring the prevention of cross-contamination in...